where he served as editor-in-chief of the humor magazine the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern; the editor-in-chief to follow him was Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss and who, according to Maclean, was “the craziest guy I ever met.” He was also a member of the Sphinx and Beta Theta Pi. During a 1986 interview, Maclean described the enormous gratitude he felt for having been able to attend creative writing classes taught at Dartmouth by the poet Robert Frost. Maclean stated that he learned an enormous amount from Frost, which he carried with him for the rest of his life. During the same interview, Maclean recalled that his lifelong admiration for and emulation of the writing style of Ernest Hemingway also began during his time at Dartmouth. Maclean received his Bachelor of Arts in 1924 and chose to remain in Hanover, New Hampshire to serve as an instructor until 1926—a time he recalled in "This Quarter I Am Taking McKeon: A Few Remarks on the Art of Teaching". Personal life Maclean's future wife, Jessie Burns (1905–1968), was born in Butte, Montana on January 24, 1905. Her father, John Burns, had been born at Marlborough, Massachusetts to Scots-Irish parents who had recently emigrated from a village near Belfast. Jesse's mother, Florence MacLeod, was a Scottish-Canadian immigrant to Montana. At the time of Jessie's birth, her father ran the general store in Wolf Creek, where she was raised, in between attending school in Butte. Jessie Burns had red hair and freckles and was known in her childhood as a tomboy. She first met Norman Maclean during a December party in the Helena valley. They were returning home after the party with another couple in Jessie's car, when a blizzard descended and the car's radiator froze. MacLean tried pouring water in, only to have the water freeze as well. Maclean then started hiking through the blizzard to seek help, but soon found that the car had caught up with him, as the cold had prevented the engine from overheating. Norman felt foolish, but Jessie always considered him the hero of the blizzard. Maclean and Burns married on September 24, 1931, and had two children: a daughter Jean (born in 1942), now a lawyer, and a son, John Norman Maclean (born in 1943). Following their marriage, Jessie handled the family's finances and wrote all the checks. Norman also gave up typing and wrote almost everything, including