Those were remarkable years at U.City High. Especially memories of Augusta Gottlieb, turning slowly
back and forth, eyeglasses tucked in her hand, gently smiling, drawing us out to exchange thoughts
and observations; Charles Procasky, towering above the keyboard, thundering out directives, who gave
us the amazing transcendent flights of singing in concert; Wesley Kettlekamp, who ended only at "a
logical stopping place", never at the mere clanging of a bell; Ed Menges, who patiently taught the skills
of drawing and painting, showed us that there was aesthetic value and excellence, mystery though it be.

Washington U. followed graduation as naturally as Hanley had followed Flynn Park for me. I was living
still at home, and many were the familiar U. City faces that I saw on the walks and in the classrooms of
the Hilltop: a comfortable setting. But I had no clear vision for my future; so I paused a year and joined
the Army Reserve, a stint that turned out well enough (when I was discharged, luckily, on the eve of
LBJ' s big call up of reservists for Viet Nam). Meanwhile, I returned to campus with an enthusiastic
desire to invest my learning time in what I truly enjoyed: that was history, mainly European, especially
Ancient and Medieval. And here I began a second round of Latin courses, which eventually seduced
me into full-scale graduate study of Classics.

At Washington U. I met, Elizabeth Hellberg (a Cleveland High grad and WU math major), who was to
become my wife in 1963. We've been together now for 43 years. After we married, we played educational
leapfrog around the country, taking turns teaching for the money and getting graduate degrees. We
lived in four different places, three states from 1963-69 (Cornell for Classics doctorate, 1966-69), until I
began my full-time teaching career in Ohio. It was there that our only child, Katrin, was born in 1971.

In 1975 we returned to U. City, and bought a home on Pershing, about a block from the little house in
which I'd grown up. Our daughter even attended that same good ole Flynn Park. I began a very long
career in the Parkway Schools, six different schools in twenty-six years, teaching Latin and
occasionally history. They were very rewarding years. At times I taught the children of friends and
acquaintances from my U.City past, occasionally met colleagues from U.City too.