A Mechanical Man in Overdrive: The Jonathan Shailor Update
Hi Bob,
Thanks for your story.
My story: Graduated from UMass-Amherst with a B.A. in "Communication Education." Spent my junior year at Roehampton Institute in London. After graduation, taught English, Drama and Communication courses at high schools in Amherstand in Nashua, NH. Spent 2 years in Jamaica (West Indies) teaching similar courses and getting into trouble. Returned to UMass for Master's and Ph.D. in Communication (just couldn't get enough of that place!). Taught at Ithaca College 1989-1994, then at University of Wisconsin-Parkside 1994-present. Got married to Catherine McConnell (clincal psychologist, and no, we did not meet "on the couch") in 1996. Three cats, no kids (yet).
I've enjoyed your e-mails and the bits of information that have trickled through about various classmates. Please say "hi" to all at the big do.
A few scattered memories of jr. and high school days that you can feel free to make part of any of the trivia games that you guys decide to play:
*Admiring Linda Shactman's fudgies (I'll let you explain that one).
*Does anyone remember what I carried in that briefcase? (Somebody wrote a Sound-Off article that described me as moving like "a mechanical man in overdrive")
*Getting Lee Hodge in trouble by persuading him to answer Mr. Dorman's study hall attendance call with "In attendance, SIR!"
*Freshman year: appearing with Bill Thompson in the one-act play contest:"Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" written and directed by now-famous David Morse. Bill and I played a pair of human ears (I believe I was the right ear). We were shirtless, and wore only pantyhose below. Zowie. A few young ladies held center stage as "brain cells." I'd be interested to know if anyone at the reunion was a brain cell.
That's all for now!
Jon
Notes from Bob:
Jonathan's reference above has to do with the time he and I were standing over a large bowl of candy at Linda's Bat Mitzvah during our Jr. High years. Jon remarked: "Gee, I really like the fudgies." According to him, I then loudly announced to the gathered multitudes of kids, "Jonathan Shailor loves Linda Shactman's fudgies!" I have no recollection of this, thankfully.
Jon recently got a bunch of press for his production of Shakespeare in a prison with inmates as actors. There was a big New York Times article, but that you would probably have to pay to read if you can find it. There is an account of the happening in a "lesser' journal at:
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/05/29/local/iq_3540689.txt
Thanks for your story.
My story: Graduated from UMass-Amherst with a B.A. in "Communication Education." Spent my junior year at Roehampton Institute in London. After graduation, taught English, Drama and Communication courses at high schools in Amherstand in Nashua, NH. Spent 2 years in Jamaica (West Indies) teaching similar courses and getting into trouble. Returned to UMass for Master's and Ph.D. in Communication (just couldn't get enough of that place!). Taught at Ithaca College 1989-1994, then at University of Wisconsin-Parkside 1994-present. Got married to Catherine McConnell (clincal psychologist, and no, we did not meet "on the couch") in 1996. Three cats, no kids (yet).
I've enjoyed your e-mails and the bits of information that have trickled through about various classmates. Please say "hi" to all at the big do.
A few scattered memories of jr. and high school days that you can feel free to make part of any of the trivia games that you guys decide to play:
*Admiring Linda Shactman's fudgies (I'll let you explain that one).
*Does anyone remember what I carried in that briefcase? (Somebody wrote a Sound-Off article that described me as moving like "a mechanical man in overdrive")
*Getting Lee Hodge in trouble by persuading him to answer Mr. Dorman's study hall attendance call with "In attendance, SIR!"
*Freshman year: appearing with Bill Thompson in the one-act play contest:"Hear Ye! Hear Ye!" written and directed by now-famous David Morse. Bill and I played a pair of human ears (I believe I was the right ear). We were shirtless, and wore only pantyhose below. Zowie. A few young ladies held center stage as "brain cells." I'd be interested to know if anyone at the reunion was a brain cell.
That's all for now!
Jon
Notes from Bob:
Jonathan's reference above has to do with the time he and I were standing over a large bowl of candy at Linda's Bat Mitzvah during our Jr. High years. Jon remarked: "Gee, I really like the fudgies." According to him, I then loudly announced to the gathered multitudes of kids, "Jonathan Shailor loves Linda Shactman's fudgies!" I have no recollection of this, thankfully.
Jon recently got a bunch of press for his production of Shakespeare in a prison with inmates as actors. There was a big New York Times article, but that you would probably have to pay to read if you can find it. There is an account of the happening in a "lesser' journal at:
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/05/29/local/iq_3540689.txt
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