Daniel R. Reedy, Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School, University of Kentucky, was born on a farm in Clark County, Illinois. Reedy earned a B.A. in Spanish, English, and Latin in 1957 from Eastern Illinois University. He subsequently earned an M.A. in Spanish (1959) and Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Linguistics (1962) from the University of Illinois. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from EIU in 1981, and was named Distinguished Alumnus of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1999.