John Willson

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation professor, retired
Location Hillsdale, MI, United States
Introduction I'm the oldest guy allowed on this site. I've been a teacher for almost fifty years (about 12,500 students, 4000 meetings, 78,000 papers graded) but what is more impressive and my greatest accomplishment is that I have one wife, Helen, for even longer than I've been a teacher. St. Russell (Kirk) and St. Gerhart (Niemeyer) mentored me, and that's serious name-dropping. Here's the only other bragging point: I gave up a tenured teaching job in 1975 to move to a little midwestern college that had no money and was about to take on the federales. So you can see, I'm loyal but pretty dumb.
Interests family, church, local community
Favorite Movies Nobody's Fool, Stagecoach, Knute Rockne All American
Favorite Music Dolly Parton, The Eagles, and the whole 1940 Episcopal Hymnal
Favorite Books Bible (Ignatius Catholic Study Bible), The Roots of American Order, The Poetry of Robert Frost, novels of Jon Hassler, Louis Auchincloss, Willa Cather, Booth Tarkingtion