About
Welcome
I hope you are enjoying this website as
much as I enjoy working on it. Let me tell you a little
about myself.
I was
born in Quebec, Canada, the oldest of eight children (eight was a
small family in Quebec where there were often families with twelve
to eighteen kids). At the age of five, we moved to a town just
outside of Ottawa, Ontario where I grew up. From there I worked for
seven years in Red Deer and Calgary, Alberta. This is where I met my
wife Dianne. My office used to overlook the foothills of the
Rockies, where wild horses could still be seen. We then moved to
Cape Cod and lived there for seven years. I was ran day treatment
centers and residential programs for the mentally retarded for a
while and then became the administrator of a large licensed
psychiatric clinic. We lived five miles from the ocean!!
In 1987 we moved to Connecticut where I was director of Training and
Research for the CT Institute for the Blind.
My full-time job now is with the
Connecticut State Department of
Education in the Bureau of
Choice Programs. I manage several areas. My portfolio of
duties include multicultural education, Title IX (Gender Equity) and
Civil Rights. Most days I am on the phone providing technical
assistance to schools and parents on a variety of complaint areas. I
do a lot of training and public speaking on multicultural education,
diversity, cultural competence, Title IX/sexual harassment, which I
enjoy the most. Since 1995, I have helped organize an annual
Conference on Multicultural Education.
We are empty-nesters. My wife
Dianne is a psychotherapist (30 years of free therapy for me).
She is the director of an outpatient mental health program.
Our son Christopher lives in Chicago where he is an adjunct
professor of art at the Illinois Institute of Art. He also is
the Editor and Publisher of
ALARM Magazine.
Chris has also had great
success as an
independent artist.
He is a graduate of the Art
Institute of Chicago (full scholarship, thank god), where he
received his MFA.
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Our daughter Katy graduated May 22, 2005 from the University of
Vermont with a degree in English. She entered the Jane
Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois,
Chicago the fall of 2007 to begin working on her MSW.
(Katy on her first day of
Grade 1, 1988) |