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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Campus Community Members,</p><p class="MsoNormal">We were saddened to have learned about the passing of Dr. Janet Groth, professor emerita of English, who died June 11, 2025 at Wartburg Retirement Community near New York City. She was 88.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Groth joined the faculty as an assistant professor of English in September 1982. In September 1989 she was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 1995. She retired as a full professor in December 2000. All this after a colorful career as a receptionist on the 18 floor of the New Yorker Magazine, a job that had her rubbing elbows with the famous and infamous. In 2012, she wrote about her 21 years at the culturally iconic magazine: “Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker.” She returned to campus shortly after its publication to speak, the story of which can be found here: <a href="https://www.plattsburgh.edu/news/news-archive/former-prof-to-share-front-desk-view-of-new-yorkers-golden-age.html">https://www.plattsburgh.edu/news/news-archive/former-prof-to-share-front-desk-view-of-new-yorkers-golden-age.html</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Groth had taught at Vassar College, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University. A former Fulbright lecturer in Norway and visiting fellow at Yale, she was the author of “Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time,” a Northeast Modern Language Association award-winner, and co-author of “Critic in Love: A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">A celebration of her life will be held at a Mass of the Resurrection Saturday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m. at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y., 10022, 212-935-2200. Burial will follow in the parish’s columbarium. Her full obituary can be found at <a href="https://www.saintpeters.org/parish-life/janet-groth">https://www.saintpeters.org/parish-life/janet-groth</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Our condolences to all who knew and loved her.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Be well and stay cool. It’s a scorcher today.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Gerianne</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">GERIANNE DOWNS</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">(She/her/hers)</p><p class="MsoNormal">Associate Director of Communications</p><p class="MsoNormal">Office of the President</p><p class="MsoNormal">151 Hawkins Hall</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">101 Broad Street</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(o) 518-564-3094</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(f) 518-564-2094</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Vice President for Professionals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">United University Professions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><a href="http://plattsburgh.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">plattsburgh.edu</span></a></span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>