1971-73 Bishop=92s University (lecturer in Education, Alumni Sec=92y.) 1971-73 University of London, England (Ph.D. in Comparative Education) 1973-80 Dawson College, Montreal (Dean of Arts, then Academic Dean) 1980-90 Vice-President Academic, Athabasca University, Alberta 1990-91 Acting President, Athabasca University 1991-97 President, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario 1998-present President, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
Jane Brindley and I were married in 1989. First wife Barb (Aylett) is also remarried and living in Kelowna, B.C. Two sons (David, 28, just got his M.A. in journalism from Western and is working as a journalist in Barrhead, Alberta; Jonathan, 25, is coming to Windsor this Fall to do his M.A =2E in Sports Adminstration). Jane and I enjoy our Persian blue cat, Pushkin.
Jane and I travel extensively, consulting in distance education, and are frequent presenters at conferences and writers in the field (I wrote a book on univesity management in 1990). Our real passion is theatre, mainly through regular trips to London (England), Stratford, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Toronto. Jane recently got her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa but still can't figure me out.
I still play a lot of piano and very little guitar. I have written and performed in a number of satirical musical revues for conferences and, for three consecutive years, for the Sudbury Fringe Theatre Festival. Without any recognition of my total incompetence in sports, I still play squash, old-timer's hockey and torture myself regularly at the local fitness centre. I'm a long-time member of the Opimian Society which brings up such familiar Montreal musical names as Sambrook and De Courcy-Ireland from time to time.