June 30, 2000

A Long Academic Career Fell Short in Terms of Money, Respect, and Satisfaction

To the Editor:

The Chronicle is not a publication that normally moves one. But Scott Heller has moved me -- and I daresay many others -- with the story of Harold Overton, a story that rises to the level of literature ("The Lessons of a Lost Career," May 26). Overton's tale is an extreme one to be sure, but in principle unhappily not particularly unusual.

Had Overton accepted the offer from my institution, Montclair State University, he would have been

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