Athens Samuel Crowl, Shakespeare professor to generations of students at Ohio University, innovative administrator, architect of programs across the university for more than half a century, died on June 16 at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where he was taken after a fall at his home on June 7. His career at OU began in 1970, when he arrived as a fledgling PhD from Indiana University, just in time to have missed the crisis of the Vietnam War protests which had closed the university the preceding spring, but in time to join hands with survivors to recoup. "Sweet are the uses of adversity" was a fitting Shakespeare line for those days, and so it proved for Sam's active and immersive career to follow.His teaching and scholarly area centered on Shakespeare on Film, a specialization that he helped to launch globally and to disseminate. He was the author of seven books, the latest published in 2024, titled "Shakespeare and Baseball." Equal parts joyous family memoir, documentary of his li

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