I
do hereby swear that I, Urban A. Thobe, am a professional student
at heart. I graduated eight times and attended 11 schools of all
kinds, of which 8 were colleges or universities. This is no record,
of course, but still may be a little excessive.
After
attending the public schools of Oakwood (Montgomery County), Ohio,
a suburb of Dayton and St. Albert the Great Grade School (I am currently
translating a Latin work by Albert the Great, medieval teacher of
Thomas Aquinas -- can’t get away from him) I went on to St. Joseph's
College (Indiana) B.A. in philosophy, physics and math minors, and,
ultimately, the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. and Ph.D. (1967
philosophy). Meanwhile the National Science Foundation Scholarship
paid for a summer workshop in Meteorology at the University of Chicago.
Soon
thereafter not having any idea of what to with my life I entered
graduate school at THE Ohio State University (OSU says the THE is
mandatory) for the first time in economics, fell asleep and tried
physics the next quarter, flunked Theory and Functions of Complex
Variables (not realizing it had a prereq, nor apparently had my
faculty advisor), and moved back to philosophy in the third quarter.
After a year or so I of study at ND, I went to Quebec’s Laval University
for a summer, later returning for over a year to work on my dissertation.
The University of Wisconsin gave me an overview of early history
of science for a semester. Later, computer science at Judson College,
near my home. And much more recently, OCC, where I am still on probation.
As
a division head for a quarter century, I enjoyed studying many industries
and businesses (their technicalities and their cultures) as part
of my work as well as seeing inside many more disciplines than I
had studied in college.
Now, I am rewriting my dissertation to be published just after 2003
(giving the lie to the Amazon entry which says it will be out in
2001).Only seventy-five bucks. Many on order already. Hurry, order
your very own now before they are all sold out. (Sorry, no discounts
-- more sorry, no pictures.)
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