| occupation | Associate Professor of History,Montgomery College-Rockville |
| my birthday | May 13 |
| favorite high
school memory |
Riding home on the team bus after Peary's basketball team beat Blair in the county semifinals in '74. I dont think I was the only one who was afraid there, especially after Blair's girls had beaten up a number of our cheerleaders at Peary. |
| what I've been doing
since high school |
For the past 14 years, I've been teaching at Montgomery College, first part-time at Germantown, then full-time, first at Takoma Park, now at Rockville. Strangely enough, I've had the pleasure of teaching Peary grads from throughout the 70s, all of whom have turned out to be pretty good students. I haven't taught anyone from my own class of '74, but I have taught a husband, an ex-husband and a daughter of members of the class of '74. I've published two books - the most recent is Tennessee Senators, 1911-2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change which I co-wrote with Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee. Noting a couple of Peary grads and Betty Hepburn, the mother of several Peary grads have served on the Democratic Central Committee, I should report that both myself and Richard Solomon '79 have served on the Montgomery Republican Central Committee. Both parties need new blood in the county and I encourage more Peary grads to get involved in both of them! |
| future plans | Write a bit more, teach a bit more, travel a lot more |
| the faculty member I remember
the best and why |
Bob Clarke - a truly outstanding teacher whose inclass jokes I still steal whenever I teach world history. He helped inspire a number of us (including my MC colleague - albeit at the Germantown campus - Kurt Borkman '74 to follow him into teaching. |