The Lessons of a Lost Career

How one unsung professor played by the rules, worked hard at the same university for 27 years, and died worrying that he couldn't pay his bills

By SCOTT HELLER

Charleston, S.C.

To honor its dead, Charleston Southern University puts together a slide show. But the colleagues and friends who gathered in Lightsey Chapel last October to remember Harold J. Overton, a linguist who died suddenly of...