Tim Smith:  

After graduation from Corona HS, I attended UCR for 4 years, receiving a B.A. in Classics (Greek and Latin) in 1969. I got a really good financial aid deal for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. (Not to be confused with Penn State, which is the school with the good football team; the U. of Penn is an Ivy League school with not very good sports teams.) Finished my doctorate in Classics at Penn in 1973—and couldn't find a university teaching job, so I wound up working as a clerk for a year in the dental school library at Penn. The second time round in the academic job market, I did get a teaching job at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (again, not the better-known campus, which is in Chapel Hill, NC). For a variety of reasons, I decided I didn't want to be a professor after all, so I went to library school at Chapel Hill. After graduating from there in 1978, I worked as an assistant librarian at a small, rural community college in Wytheville, Virginia, a beautiful part of the Blue Ridge region which I really came to love. Again, for a variety of reasons, I moved from there in 1985 to my present location in Athens, Ohio where I'm a reference librarian at Ohio University—not to be confused with Ohio State University...Expand for more