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BA - Gordon College, Wenham, MA
MA - Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ
DA - Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
During the past forty-one years I have been associated with Luzerne County Community College. The College has
changed physically and also experienced a significant increase in its student enrollment
over the years. I too, have changed.
When I began teaching at LCCC in the Fall of 1968, I taught courses in the History of
Civilization. Once a week I traveled to New York City for evening classes at Columbia
University in an attempt to broaden my horizons.
In 1977 I entered Carnegie-Mellon University's Doctor of Arts program. During the next
five years I took courses during the summers in Pittsburgh and then wrote my dissertation
while continuing to teach at the community college. My course work was both in History and
Sociology which gradually led me to a greater interest in social issues.
In 1985 I moved from chairman of the Social Science - History Department to Assistant Dean
of Academic Affairs at Luzerne. With the retirement of the Academic Dean, I was appointed
Vice President of Academic Affairs, a position I held until 1993. Realizing that I missed
the classroom, I returned to teaching in the fall of 1993.
Social Interaction; Political Sociology; Religion; Environment
TRAVEL and STUDY Fulbright Summer Seminar - Netherlands (1984)
American Overseas Study Program - -Western Europe (1965; 1970; 1973; 1980; 1984)
Numerous trips to London, Amsterdam and Paris (1990 -2003)
National Endowment to the Humanities - 2005 (Mars College, NC)
Chautauqua Program - University of Denver - 2006
National Endowment to the Humanities - 2008 (Dearborn, MI)
Dissertation:
"Religion and Horror: The American Religious Press Views Nazi Death Camps and Holocaust Survivors"
Copies available at: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9962314&referer=brief_results
Involvement In Learning - Presentation at the NE meeting of the American Association of
University Administrators National Endowment to the Humanities - Brandeis University,
Summer 1985
Book Reviews:
Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy, Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, eds. Reviewed in Fides et Historia, Summer, 1992
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914, Helmut W. Smith, Reviewed in Fides et Historia, Fall, 1995
Exploring the Social, Wadsworth Publishing Company, November 1997
Newspaper Articles:
"Education - Parental Involvement"
"An Educational President"
"Economic Advancement and Your College Degree"
"Learning to be Literate in America"
"Investing in Your Children"
"Children and Television"
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