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I'll be pretty depressed if I can condense 40 years of my life into a couple of paragraphs, but I guess I'll risk it. After graduating from ASIJ I went to Dartmouth College, and spent the next four years in that very strange environment-simultaneously monastic, intellectually stimulating, with occasional interludes of debauchery-cf. Animal House. I then went to Cornell for doctoral work in political science, motivated largely by my fascination with the subject, but the value of a student deferment in the Vietnam era was admittedly an added consideration. Cornell was a hotbed of radicalism in that period, which made for a very lively and soul-searching experience.
Upon completing my doctoral work (although the dissertation took a couple of additional years), I got a teaching position at the University of Toledo. I've been here ever since, a sign of inertia or contentment or a bit of both. The academic life has its limitation and frustrations, but it seems to suit me very well. I love the teaching, the student population here is delightfully diverse, and it's neat to do something you enjoy and be paid for it. I have a wonderful wife, Miriam, who teaches public administration at Bowling Green University, a half-hour south of Toledo. I have two step-children, Todd, a publicist in the music business that lives in Manhattan, and Pamela, a trauma nurse in Columbus. We have a granddaughter, Olivia, who has utterly captivated both of us, another grandchild on the way, and a 200 pound granddog; an English mastiff named Baxter. In short, life is good.
I am looking forward to seeing old friends from ASIJ and exchanging memories of that very special, and for me very influential, time of my life.
See Prof. Wilson's page
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