I officially received my doctorate twenty years ago this month.
Bonus:
#TBT: hooding ceremony
Tag Archives: University of Kansas
#TBT: Rock Chalk
Twelve years ago, at KU for a Jayhawks game with my dear friend Michael Johnson.
#Reminiscences: 1997
A portion of a letter to my parents in Argentina, written in June 1997:
The letter was sent by email, then printed in Argentina by my parents. They used tractor-fed paper and a dot-matrix printer.
Follow-up:
- I did have a hernia, and it required surgery a few months later.
- I continue to marvel that I get to do what I do, and get paid for it.
- I am not any younger now, and finding that even more aches and pains are real. And so is hearing loss.
#PostcardMonday: First day of school
The new school year’s classes begin today at Webster University.
I am starting my 21st year of full-time college teaching, and my 31st year of teaching in higher education.
And as I do so today, I am ever so grateful for those life-changing three years at the University of Kansas, where I earned my doctorate. I could write volumes about the learning, the lifetime relationships, the formation, the music, the beer, the travel.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
Reminiscences: moving to Kansas
Found in my father’s belongings: this postcard, addressed to my grandmother, giving my new address in Kansas when I moved there on January 2, 1997.
The “choking back tears” reference proved false. My three years at KU, and most of that also living in Lawrence, were the single best three years of my life to date.
#TBT: Doctoral recital
My second doctoral recital in April 1998 featured music of Britten, Naylor, and Howells.
I conducted the Howells.
The program notes: docrecital2
Leaving KU
Thank to Kyle Unruh, who took these photos, I still have my prints from a photo shoot in 1999 as I was wrapping up at the University of Kansas. These photos were at the end of my Atkins Diet, where I had dropped nearly 40 pounds of primarily beer weight (how I loved Free State Brewing Co.!).
