Memorable people and events of my life

The stories of my life. No, not One Direction -- although I do like the song -- but rather the start of my attempt to compile the people and events that most influenced my life, at the time and for the rest of my life. These are inflection points, creating a change of pace or direction in my life while also creating a lasting memory.

Some of these events will be brief and some of the time with people will be equally brief. It's not time, it's the impact, that matters most.

My undergraduate years comprise the focal point for the first wave of people and events. Here I have created an initial outline, with a focus more on people than events, yet there are some memorable events worth reviewing, including Hinman Follies, night guard "follies," pub life, STO, M*A*S*H, intramural and more.

It will be easier to digest people and events by arcs, like Lackawanna, Immaculate Conception, Eden Central, Penn State, Kansas, Wyoming, Marquette, Central Arkansas and Loyola. I left out North Carolina and will likely find events or people linked to my teaching abroad assignments from Kansas, Marquette, Central Arkansas and Loyola.

My memories of Lackawanna and pretty limited. Eden 1958 meant the Grey Nuns and Immaculate Conception, along with Little League and the Bethlehem Management Club.

Eden Jr Sr High revolved around sports, pizza sales, grapes, sock hops and seasonal dances, Jeff Striebich, Harvey and the AFS Talent Show hosting, and a constellation of influential teachers, e.g., Castiglia, Duffy, Georger, Varco

For my six-year stint in Binghamton (1969-75) I've started/drafted profiles of Mona Margarita and Nancy Galli, pivotal women of my senior year at Harpur. That academic year, 1972-73, may have had the pronounced impact on the rest of my life, initiating some of my closer relationships with the opposite sex and casting my academic life for the following 46 years.

Peggy Piccoli, bridging the following summer, my Penn State experience from August 1978 will get a case study. Hank Sims had the largest academic and career impact. Living on College Avenue in that final year (June 1977 to August 1978) will likely need a case study.

Kansas can be best described in terms of the places I lived -- 2500 Montana, 1434 Vermont, and 1812 Alabama -- and Bobby Friedmann will certainly be front and center among the people of KU, along with the Mad Dogs running group.