Robert Hausmann Professor Dr. Robert Hausmann died peacefully at his home last month surrounded by loved ones. He was 82.
His ashes will be scattered at his request upon the graves of his parents at Arlington National Cemetery, in his hometown of Nicholson, within the floodplain of Rock Creek, in the sagebrush of Shineberger Creek, in Budapest, and a pinch in the subway system of Tokyo which he had in his last few trips to Japan "finally figured out". A man proud of his humble beginnings in Appalachian Pennsylvania, Bob won a high school scholarship to Wyoming Seminary preparatory school. That education launched a career in academia that took Bob Hausmann to Penn State (from which he promptly flunked out) to the University of Alabama to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and finally to a job working as a Professor at the University of Montana.
A PhD in linguistics, Bob used his education and his position as a professor to establish the English Language Institute at the University of Montana sending countless teachers across the world promoting English as a path to educational and economic mobility and greater access to an increasingly globalized world. Bob also used Missoula, as a base for hunting and fishing adventures throughout Montana and across the globe: hunting grouse and pheasants in heaths of the Scottish Borders and trout in the lochs of the Outer Hebrides, hunting wild boar in the deciduous forests of Hungary, fly fishing the high mountain streams of Patagonia and.