Education
| North
Middlesex Regional High School, Townsend, Massachusetts, 1973
AB, Economics, College
of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1977
MS (with distinction), Applied Mathematics,
Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 1987
Project
ACT, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1994
|
Awards
| W.R. Church Award
for Excellence in Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, 1985
Cross Country Coach
of the Year, Big East (4A) Conference, NC, 1997
Cross Country Coach
of the Year, East Central (2A) Conference, NC, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, &
2003, 2004 (Men)
Teacher of the Year,
Croatan High School, 1999-2000
National
Board Certified Teacher, 2001
Carteret County Outstanding
Secondary Mathematics Teacher, 2002 |
Favorite
Books
| Tales from Margaritaville,
Jimmy Buffett
The Bridges of Madison County, Robert
James Waller
Shoeless Joe, W.P. Kinsella
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway
A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu
|
 |
Heroes
People
I would invite to dinner (if given the chance)
| Bruce Springsteen
President Ronald Reagan
Jon Gruden and Bill Cowher Kozmo Kramer
Deborah Hughes-Hallett
Tully Mars
Georg
Cantor |
 |
Favorite Quotes (&
Quotations)
| "The stupid will
be punished." - Commander Chuck Donney, USN
"They would not listen.
They did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now." - Don McLean
"In the final analysis, commitment,
in and of itself, irrespective of whether you win or not, is something
that truly makes your life worthwhile." - Harry Chapin
"Success in life is not determined
by a lack of talent or strength, but by a lack of will." - Vince
Lombardi
"Are you committed to excellence?"
- Lou Holtz
"I was sitting on the veranda
of my farm home in eastern Iowa when a voice clearly said to me, 'If you
build it, he will come.'" - W.P. Kinsella
"I run because I am an animal
and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find
your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the
person you are meant to be." - George
Sheehan, M.D.
"We learned more from a three-minute
record, baby, than we ever learned in school." - Bruce
Springsteen |
 |
© 2007 CFM/
8/23/07
|
