Justin W. Brierly
Justin W. Brierly | |
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Born | Denver, Colo. | September 3, 1905
Died | April 13, 1985 Denver, Colo. | (aged 79)
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Justin W. Brierly (September 3, 1905 – April 13, 1985) was an American educator and lawyer. Born to a Colorado pioneer family and educated at
Early life and education
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Justin W. Brierly was born on September 3, 1905, in
Career
After college at Columbia, Brierly helped form a
After fourteen years as a teacher,
During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill invited Brierly to England as a consultant on the evacuation of children from urban areas at risk from German bombing.[citation needed] Brierly retired from the school system in 1971, after thirty-six years of service.[4]
Role with Beat writers
Brierly is known for having been a friend of
Cassady was introduced to future Beat Generation literary icons
Other activities
Brierly was a prominent supporter of the performing arts in Denver.[citation needed] He was involved with the Central City Opera House Association between 1937 and 1948.[14] In 1937, He became "the first executive manager of the... Association and later served on [its] Board of Directors, Executive Board, and eventually [as] an honorary trustee.[1] He served on many other public and private organizational boards,[1] for instance, as a trustee of Colorado Outward Bound School,[citation needed] a board member of the American Council of Émigrés in the Professions,[citation needed] and as an adviser to the board of the Institute of International Education.[citation needed]
As a practicing attorney, Brierly served as an assistant to the president of Colorado Women's College following his retirement from the public schools.[citation needed] In 1972, Brierly founded the Martha Faure Carson Library at the Colorado Women's College, in honor of a friend who had been one of Denver's noted dance teachers; upon Brierly's death, it was renamed the Carson-Brierly Dance Library, now part of the Penrose Library at the University of Denver.[15] The Colorado Historical Society was the recipient of his gift of the historic McFarlane House, in Central City, Colorado, in 1976.[1]
Personal life and legacy
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Brierly died at age 79, in Denver on April 13, 1985.[1] His obituary in the Rocky Mountain News called him "one of Denver's most distinguished educators."[16][verify]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l DPL Staff (November 21, 2021). "Justin W. Brierly Papers [Western History and Genealogy Collection, Identifier: WH2187]". Denver, Colo.: Denver Public Library. Retrieved November 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Sandison & Vickers 2006, p. 41. A 1959 Time magazine article mentions Brierly as the "coordinator of college counseling for Denver schools." "Education: The Good Student", Time, April 27, 1959, archived from the original on February 1, 2011.
- Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 2012-03-14, retrieved 2010-03-08,]
Fate intervened in Mr. Augustine's junior year at East Denver High School, in the form of Justin W. Brierly, a guidance counselor who prided himself on getting as many students as he could into Ivy League universities... He summoned Mr. Augustine, then one of the top two students in his class of more than 700, to his office... Mr. Brierly handed him two folders and told him to fill out the forms. One was an application to Princeton University, the other to Williams College.
[dead link - ^ Sandison & Vickers 2006, p. 41.
- ^ a b Cassady & Moore 2004, p. 10; Sandison & Vickers 2006, pp. 63–64.
- ^ a b Cassady & Moore 2004, p. 1.
- ^ Cassady & Moore 2004, p. 1; Sandison & Vickers 2006, pp. 42–46.
- ^ Turner 1996, p. 79:[verify] "Brierly had been sexually attracted to Neal, and managed to entice him into his first homosexual experience." Sandison & Vickers 2006, pp. 41–42:[verify] "Brierly was most likely also a closet homosexual, and it was probably through him that Neal Cassady would first discover and explore gay sex and serve as a hustler in Denver's gay community." According to some reports, however, Brierly's sexual orientation was an open secret; see Weir, John (2005-06-22), "Everybody knows, nobody cares, or: Neal Cassady's Penis", TriQuarterly, archived from the original on 2009-06-20.
- ^ Sandison & Vickers 2006, p. 108. In a 1955 letter, Kerouac says he knows Brierly "well & on intimate gossipy terms." Kerouac & Charters 1996, p. 518.
- ^ Turner 1996, p. 113.
- ^ Cunnell 2007, p. 43; Mouratidis 2007, p. 77 ("Brierly presents a stronger link to Cassady's actual past and private life... Neal's failure as Brierly's protégé... provides a context for... [his] alienat[ion] from his Denver friends, something never properly explained in the published novel.").
- ^ Cunnell 2007, pp. 43–44.
- ^ a b Kerouac, though believing Brierly would be "charmed" by his depiction in On the Road, discusses some of these changes in a letter dated September 20, 1955, to Malcolm Cowley, his editor at Viking Press. Kerouac & Charters 1996, p. 518. An intermediate manuscript also named Brierly "Beattie G. Davis."
- ^ Sandison & Vickers 2006, p. 41; Turner 1996, p. 79.
- ^ Sandison & Vickers 2006, p. 41; "A Comprehensive Look at Dance Through the Carson-Brierly Dance Library" (PDF), Penrose Library News: 4, Spring 2006, archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-23.
- ^ Sandison & Vickers 2006, p. 41.[verification needed] Turner 1996, p. 218 inaccurately gives 1984 as his year of death.
References
- ISBN 978-0-14-200217-9
- Cunnell, Howard (2007), "Fast This Time", in ISBN 978-0-670-06355-0
- Kerouac, Jack; Charters, Ann (1996), Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956, Penguin Books
- Mouratidis, George (2007), "'Into the Heart of Things': Neal Cassady and the Search for the Authentic", in ISBN 978-0-670-06355-0
- Sandison, David; Vickers, Graham (2006), Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero, Chicago Review Press, better source needed]
- Turner, Steve (1996), Angelheaded Hipster: A Life of Jack Kerouac, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ISBN 0-7475-2480-7