Robert E. Streeter

The next year, he started teaching at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of English literature.

Streeter helped his colleagues form a consensus to build a newer curriculum for students.

[3] Streeter earned an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1960 from and was given an Alumni Association Award in 1995 by the Bucknell University.

His wife Ruth was a Tennessee elementary school teacher and a Chicago volunteer of children's literary.

[3] Streeter died on June 22, 2002, at the age of 85 in Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, of post-surgery complications, according to his son Allyn.