Farrell, Thomas2024-03-272024-03-272024-03This version has not been published previously.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/261906See the above abstract.In my wide-ranging 8,850-word review essay "Thomas J. Farrell's Most Memorable Year, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at the City College of the City University of New York in 1975-1976, during CUNY's expensive experiment with open admissions. In part, I focus on four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D'Eloia (1943-1990). In addition, I highlight how my own publications about open admissions drew on the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).enOpen Admissions, City College, City University of New York, Mina P. Shaughnessy, Theodore L. Gross, Edward Quinn, Sarah D'Eloia Fortune, Walter J. Ong, Jane Maher, Donald LazereScholarly Text or Essay