dldeprez
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Science Teacher |
| Location | Lincolnshire, IL, United States |
| Introduction | Raised a military dependent, attended three high schools; matriculated at Oregon State, falling in love with misty coniferous forests; started backpacking in the Sierra at 14; perennial student, finally graduating with degrees in Botany, Religious Studies, and Science Education; perennial collector of free graduate credit offered to teachers; taught in Oregon, California, and Illinois; son 19, daughter 24; teacher of science, the organizing principle being that matter interacts within systems of varying scale, which cycle and recycle matter as energy passes through them |
| Interests | Collecting and restoring Midwest country antique cherry wood furniture, collecting pre-1940 First Day Plate # Block Covers, collecting and reading first English edition Soren Kierkegaard, reading popular nonfiction science, rereading old articles in Harper's Magazine when Lewis Lapham was Editor, botanizing while backpacking off trail in wilderness |
| Favorite movies | A Dream of Passion (1978 Melina Mecouri Ellen Burstyn), Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone's masterpiece), Vertigo (Hitchcock's masterpiece), Man on Fire (a story of redemption in a world of sin and death), Leon (a similar story of redemption in a world of sin and death) |
| Favorite music | Rocky Chicago blues e.g. Jambon, Irish folk music e.g. Liz Carrol, Sheryl Crow, rock theme albums e.g. the Beatle's St. Pepper's Heart's Dreamboat Annie Beachboy's Pet Sounds the Byrd's Notorious Byrd Brothers, Jackie Evancho (the most talented voice of our time) |
| Favorite books | Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Peter Berger's Sacred Canopy and the Social Construction of Reality, John Muir's The Mountains of California and My First Summer in the Sierra |