Angelo Alonzo:  

This is a brief sketch of my life activities since my days in the Maxwell Park area of East Oakland. I managed to get through college, Oakland City College and San Francisco State, and then went on to Berkeley for graduate work in sociology. About half way through my program, the draft threatened me and I did an alternative service with the US Public Health Service. Shortly before this I was married and USPHS sent us to Washington DC for almost three years where I was assigned to NIH and essentially did my dissertation research. After DC I took my first teaching position at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. I had two wonderful daughters and finished one big dissertation while there from 1970 to 1974! I then took a position at Ohio State. My daughters, Alicia and Alexsa, essentially only know Columbus, or Upper Arlington,OH, as their home. Alicia has just moved from University of Iowa to Michigan State. She is an applied physicist who became involved with science education and is now a science educator. She was quite happy in California where she went to do graduate work at Cal Tech after Cornell. She was at Berkeley for a post-doc and then at Stanford in a research position until she realized the downside of being on ¿soft money¿ or grant money, it usually runs out, so took a teaching position. Alexsa was fortunate enough to go to Harvard as a government major and during her time there also spent time in three Latin American countries. After graduation she took a position at American University in Cairo for a year working and studying Arabic. After Cairo she returned to Boston and worked for Harvard in an office assisting international students and later in an immigrant social services agency as a para-legal. This prompted her to go onto NYU law school and she is now an immigration attorney in Miami. I remarried 14 years ago and my wife, Nancy, and I enjoyed careers at Ohio State. She was in the school of nursing. Nancy...Expand for more