Paul Dull
never bored
his students
By BOB GALVIN
Of the Emerald
“Retirement can be a traumatic experience.
When I walk off this campus, that’s it,” said Paul
Dull.
Dull, a professor of history at the University, is
retiring in June after 27 years at the University. He
says he is not bored after teaching all these years,
but he is ready for a change in his life.
The professor has wanted to be more involved
with his students and at the same time carry out
research in areas which interest him at the present.
He is sorry he has been unable to tackle both of
these interests during his tenure at the University.
Students who took the professor’s classes in
East Asian history found them anything but dull.
His classes made the history, politics and intrigue
of the Far East come alive.
Dull, a pioneer historian in the field of East
Asian relations, was in East Asia — Japan, Man
churia. Korea, China — in pre-World War II years.
One of the few westerners who knew the languages
in those years, he was able to assimilate the
political history and military involvement of the
area.
His remarkable talent for teaching received
notice at the University in 1958 when he was
awarded one of the first Ersted Awards for
Distinguished Teaching.
His classes always have bad a large attendance
and are expanded for at least two lectures each
year. Not only do the enrolled students attend, but
any extra space is filled by drop-in students who
have heard the word
When Dull arrived at the University in 1946
there was no East Asian studies curriculum. He
built the field. The University was the first in
stitution in the state to otter the studies, and
remains the only place in Oregon where a student
can get such training.
Dull has been teaching for a total of 37 years. He
taught at the University of Washington and once at
Stanford. He took time out to serve in the Marines
during the war, and was assigned to duty in the
Pacific Theatre because of his knowledge of East
Asia and of the languages.
Those who know him agree that Dull is a
character. He might even be called eccentric
because of his fanatical regard for teaching.
“I put everything I have into my teaching,”
Dull says. He considers the profession to be one of
“psychological warfare.” He is concerned about
how to instill what he knows into the students.
If he sees students sitting back in their chairs,
he says, he knows he is losing. But if the students
are sitting on the edge of their seats, listening
anxiously, he feels like a winner.
“You have to have a love of your profession and
you have to make it live,” said Dull. He says he will
“pull every trick I know to get the students in
terested and to get the knowledge I have into them. ”
Dull’s retirement will be a scholarly one. He
will write a number of books he has been wanting to
write for some years but could not squeeze in with
his teaching load.
Before he starts his research and writing
routine, he and his wife will spend the summer in
Eugene.
In September they will move to Wattington,
England, which is close to Oxford University and
libraries where he can do his research.
“I have about eight books I want to write,” Dull
says. “One will be a history of the Japanese Navy
and battles in World War II, from the Japanese
viewpoint. Then I’ll write a biography of Japanese
ships, and a book on the British navy in Asian
waters.”
Dull doesn’t want to be writing constantly after
his retirement, however. He plans to do some
traveling as well.
“I’m not going to tell people I’m retired when
they ask me,” he says. “I’ll just tell them I’m free
lance living.”
Dull says he reflects on his past years of
teaching at the University with a deep feeling of
satisfaction and relief.
“I’ve enjoyed tremendously my 27 years of
teaching at the University. I’ve enjoyed the almost
10,000 students that I’ve had. I’ve enjoyed the
company of my colleagues. It’s been a great life.
I’m glad I chose it. It’s changing and I’m glad I’m
getting out,” Dull says.
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