dormgrandpop
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Retired Professor, Speaker, Consultant |
| Location | Safety Harbor, Florida |
| Introduction | WHO AM I? Dormgrandpop is Professor John Richardson. Until recently I was Adjunct Professor and “Residential Fellow” in “Residential College 4,” National University of Singapore. Residential Fellows share their lives, hopes, dreams and tribulations with about 75 students who are in our immediate “families” and a larger extended family of more than 700. WHY “DORMGRANDPOP.” I choose the name “Dormgrandpop” when I began writing this blog in 2004. This was two years after beginning what became a nearly ten year term as American University’s first resident faculty member, occupying an apartment in AU’s largest undergraduate dormitory, Anderson Hall. The name seemed to capture my concept of a faculty member in residence’s role well. I told my students, both those in Singapore American that grandparents, at their best, are somewhat they can look to for unconditional support and love and that I would try to live up to that ideal. |
| Interests | Ensuring the survival of the human species, sustainable development. public policy modeling, System Dynamics |
| Favorite movies | Judgeent at Nuremberg, On the Beach, Still Alice, War and Peace |
| Favorite music | Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, The Seekers, |
| Favorite books | The Limits to Growth, The Electronic Oracle, Urban Dynamics, Business Dyamics, Groping in the Dark: The frist Decade of Global Modeling, Paradise Poisoned, Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Comd |