Erudite Appointment (1995)

Greenwich Time, Greenwich, Connecticut USA
October 19, 1995, Page A2

Jeffrey B. Mead, Greenwich Time history columnist and local historian, has been appointed an adjunct professor of Communications with the University of Phoenix's campus in Honolulu, Hawaii. He will be teaching courses in creative and business writing as well as oral communications. 

Mead,  a descendant of Greenwich founders, serves as a historian with the Historical Society of Greenwich. His Greenwich Time column, Looking Back, appears in the Greenwich Neighbors section, and he is the author of Chains Unbound: Slave Emancipations in the Town of Greenwich. 

Mead relocated to Hawaii in March 1995 to conduct on-site research into the history of Congregationalist missionaries. He is currently researching and writing a book on the Female Foreign Mission Society of Greenwich 1815-1860, and another one on the life of missionary teacher Horton Owen Knapp.

He graduated in 1990 with a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Manhattanville College. in addition to teaching courses through the University Phoenix Mead also teaches history and English at Honolulu's Iolani School.