Grandpa Jim or GJ
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired teacher. Counting his own years as student, has spent 58 years in classroom. (31 as HS speech, English, debate, drama.) |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Retired teacher and adjunct professor of speech, composition, U.S. Literature, drama, and debate on HS, community college and university levels. (Counting his own education, has spent over 60 years in the classroom.) Served as signalman, U.S. Navy Amphibious Forces in WWII. Married for 61 years, father of two, grandfather to four, and great grandfather to eight. National gold medalist in back-to-back mini-golf tournaments, senior division. A surrogate grandpa to dozens since 1990. |
| Interests | writing, reading, mini-golf, cryptograms, good movies, sharing memories, family,Chicago Cubs |
| Favorite movies | Places in the Heart, Ice Age, Field of Dreams, Stand and Deliver, Castaway, Shaw-shank Redemption, 100's more! Mainly "based on true stories," courtroom dramas, realistic, thought-provoking and emotional! |
| Favorite music | Instrumentals, the popular classicals ( 3 B's, etc.), A Walk in the Black Forest, To Each His Own, Music Box Dancer, Roger Whitaker, and a little bit of a lot of genres, even Eddy Arnold! |
| Favorite books | Not enough room here! Most of John Grisham's work, John Steinbeck, some Faulkner, and my daughter's own story, "Hostage." |