My Photos
My Photos
Here are some photos.
I plan to add more and to organize them later.
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Here I am in
my high school senior photo,
which was taken in October 1971
for the Spring 1972 issue of
The Capitoline,
our high school yearbook.
I look almost exactly the same now ... ;-)
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Here I am in October 1996
in front of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity house
at 211 E. Armory,
Champaign, Illinois.
This picture was taken for the composite
photo that hung in the living room
at the fraternity house.
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Here I am with my VRP Sally in 1998 at
the Dead Runner's Society World Conference.
Sally and I share the same birthday,
May 22,
which happened to fall over that weekend,
hence the picture.
I had just defended my Ph.D.
dissertation a few days before the conference,
hence the cool t-shirt that my VRP Cilla McMillen
made for me because.
(She like so many people
had been urging me to finish my dissertation
for a long time.
"Urging" is a polite word for "nagging." :-)
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Here I am in
my 2000 photo for the Wesley church directory.
This photo is a few years old,
but I now look much the same except for my hair,
which I now buzz-cut high and tight
every morning.
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Here is a photo of me
running my leg
of the 2005 Around the Island Relay
on St. Maarten/St. Martin.
Each team had 10 members,
and
each member ran a leg of about 3 miles
on average
to complete the circuit around the island,
though in truth,
we did not run around the lagoon on
the western part of the island,
just the main part of the island
to the east,
which coursed through both the Dutch
and the French
parts of the island.
I ran the last leg.
It was hilly.
That is
not my belly sticking out
but rather my t-shirt blousing out
and hanging down
as I run uphill.
(Rotate the photo about 5 degrees
counter-clockwise in your head.)
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Here is a photo of
our relay team
sitting in the stands
after the race.
The people looking at the camera
and smiling are our team.
Those not, aren't.
We didn't come in first,
but we didn't come in last, either,
and we had a lot of fun.
Note how young everyone is ... except me. Sigh! ;-)
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Here is another photo of
our relay team
standing on the track
after the race.
As you can see,
St. Maarten/St. Martin
is kind of hilly,
and yes,
we ran on the those hills.
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Here I am on
Graduation Day May 1999
in front of the English Building
at
The University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
when I received the diploma for my Ph.D.
My friend Hilary Frooman
took the picture.
Hilary and I met at the English Building
in Prof. Aschah Guibbory's
class in 17th Century British Metaphysical Love Poetry
in the Fall of 1975,
our senior year,
and have been good friends ever since.
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Hilary took this picture of
me in front of
a copy shop near the English Building
that afternoon,
too.
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Hilary took this picture of
my sister Linda and my brother Dave
beside me
in front of my house
on Graduation Day,
too.
You can barely see my house
because my yard was really a forest
that generously allowed me to have
a house in the midst of it.
It was a wonderful house,
green in many ways,
both in and out.
The umbrella of trees kept it shaded and cool in the summer,
and the leafless trees helped shelter it from the winds
in winter.
It also had passive solar heat
and passive summer cooling, too.
Power bills ran about $50/month year round.
I miss it.
