From an obit on The State Journal-Register by Steven Spearie headlined “World-class linguist, journalist was a popularizer of language to the general public”:

Allan Metcalf may have been a renowned scholar, but he had such a fascination with and enthusiasm for the English language that he wanted to share it with everybody, said his colleague Robert Seufert.

“He thought of himself as a kind of popularizer of language to the general public,” said Seufert, who spent over 30 years with Metcalf as an English faculty member at MacMurray College in Jacksonville.