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Hometown

Worcester Massachusetts

Education

• Worcester State College, M Ed - History - Math - 1981 to 1983

Work

• Curry College, Director of Academic Computing - 1983 to 1993
• Curry College, Senior Lecturer - Applied Computing - 1999 to 2009

Military

• USN - 1967 to 1971
  Division: Naval Security Group
  Rank: PO2 - CTT

More about me

Instead of a bio I offer the following: I am a dreamer in a practical world, an idealist in a cynical world, an introvert in a world that values extended networks of passing acquaintances. But I do enjoy listening to people's stories when they're willing to share, and value a thoughtful conversation.

I am intrigued by the whole of existence, though I admit freely to an acute ignorance of the profundities of being. I try to keep an open mind but I can only stretch it so far.

Activities

thinking, reading, cruises, travel, walking

Favorite Charities

Salvation Army

Favorite Music

eclectic, but favoring 50s 60s and classical

Favorite TV Shows

documentaries in general; Castle, Pysch, Chuck, Monk, Burn Notice, Star Trek (Voyager 1st, Next Gen 2nd, Original 3rd); History Detectives, Nova, Quincy ME

Favorite Movies

In no particular order: 12 Angry Men; City Slickers; My Cousin Vinny; The Lord of the Rings; Tremors; Shogun; Butterfly Man; The Client; Clueless; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Daniel Deronda; An Inconvenient Truth; Hiroshima; Gettysburg; Ghostbusters; War of the Worlds (53); Time Machine (1960); The Forbin Project; The Abyss; The Duchess of Duke Street; Harvey; Man with the Movie Camera; among others

Favorite Books

Charles Dickens works, The Lord of the Rings, Dostoyevsky's novels, Death of a Red Heroine, War and Peace, The Devil in the White City, God's Universe, Red Mandarin Dress, The Alienist, James Michener's works, Billy Budd, Technopoly The Surrender of Culture to Technology, The Gift, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

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