Person:Joseph Grucci (1)

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Joseph Leonard Grucci
  1. Mary Grucci1893 -
  2. Thomas Grucci1895 -
  3. Anna Grucci1903 - 1980
  4. Anthony Grucci1905 - 1959
  5. Joseph Leonard Grucci1911 - 1982
Facts and Events
Name Joseph Leonard Grucci
Gender Male
Birth? 23 May 1911 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Death? 30 Oct 1982 State College, Pennsylvania

Joseph L. Grucci was born in Pittsburgh, May 23, 1911. He attended Penn State and the Universities of Alabama and Pittsburgh, where he taught before joining the Penn State faculty. During World War II, he served with the 63rd Infantry Division in Europe. At the end of the war, he was assigned to teach at the American University of Shrievenham, England. One of the first translators of the Chilean Nobel Laureate, Pablo Neruda, he was the author of four volumes of poems, including "Time of Hawks," and "The Invented Will" and one of translations, "Three Spanish-American Poets". Joseph L. Grucci was appointed an instructor in English composition at The Pennsylvania State College in 1949 and became an assistant professor in 1950. In 1956 he was promoted to associate professor of English composition. He retired on July 1, 1974 as associate professor English composition but Pivot, the poetry magazine he founded when he joined the faculty in 1950 continued after his retirement. He died in October, 1982 at the age of 71.