Richard Fougerousse:  

I am retired, playing in a band, and practicing tai chi. I was a history teacher for nine years at the Highlands School in Irving, Texas. Until 2005 I taught history for twelve years (1993 - 2005) at the college level. This was for the Franciscan University of Steubenville European semester abroad program, which was located in a 14th century Carthusian monastery in the village of Gaming, Austria (about two hours west of Vienna). The courses I taught there were Medieval History, French Revolution & 19th Century Europe, The History of Austrian Culture and Civilization, and Western Civilization. I was also assistant director of the Austrian campus for the first five and a half years I was there, and I was director of the program for the last six and a half years I was there. Otherwise, my only other teaching experience was that many years ago I taught for one year (1973-74) in an Austrian high school in the village of Radstadt, which is about 75 kilometers south of Salzburg. There I taught English as a foreign language to Austrian 9th and 10th graders. The year after that I went off on a grand adventure to India, traveling overland from Vienna to Istanbul by train, and then by bus across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. Spent Christ...Expand for more