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58 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine I nfluenced by his high school English teachers, Dr. Wayne H. Phelps developed an interest in English literature and William Shakespeare at a young age. He attended St. Lawrence University and received a BA in English, magna cum laude, in 1959 before being accepted into Princeton University, where he earned an MA and PhD in English in 1961 and 1965, respectively. During and after his doctoral studies, he served as an instructor and assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania from 1962 to 1972. He was then an assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1972 to 1977. From 1978 to 1980, Dr. Phelps served as a research associate of academy programs for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. He was also affiliated with the council as a research associate for institutional approval in 1980 and coordinator of institutional approval from 1980 to 1982. He subsequently retired in 1986, having worked as the director of planning and educational research for the West Virginia Board of Regents for four years. Alongside his primary career endeavors, Dr. Phelps was an editorial consultant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Phelps sat on the board of directors of the Friends of the Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence University for 20 years. Outside of his tenure in education, he has shared his expertise in several works, including “Edmund Shakespeare at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch,” which was published in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1978, and “The Date of Ben Jonson’s Death” in Notes and Queries in 1980. Dr. Phelps was deemed a summer fellow, Charles Scribner junior fellow, junior fellow and Woodrow Wilson National Fellow at Princeton University during his graduate and doctoral studies. He has been highlighted in several editions of Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, and Who’s Who in the East. WAYNE H. PHELPS, PHD DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (RETIRED) West Virginia Board of Regents Canton, NY EDUCATION