The Reader’s Notebook

The Reader’s Notebook: William Holmes McGuffey

Morehead State Public Radio | By Greg Jenkins

Published September 23, 2016 at 12:46 PM EDT

September 23, 2016 -- William Holmes McGuffey was a college president who is best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, the first widely used series of textbooks. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.

The Reader’s Notebook

Greg Jenkins

Greg Jenkins has been the Operations Director at MSPR since 1999. Greg is a 1996 graduate of Morehead State University with a BME in Music Education and received a Masters of Science in Industrial Technology in 2008. Greg oversees training, scheduling, and evaluation of the student board operator staff, preparation of the daily traffic logs and serves as weekday classical music host. He is also the webmaster of the MSPR website and maintains MSPR's webstreaming and podcasting.

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