John McAlpin:
CLASS OF 1952
Magee High SchoolClass of 1952
Magee, MS
Copiah - Lincoln Community CollegeClass of 1954
Wesson, MS
John's Story
John is from Natchez, Mississippi. John's schools include Magee High School, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Columbia University (English, Mathematics),New York University, and Cambridge University. He is an Emeritrus Professor of Computer Science at Bradley. Formerly he taught mathematics at Columbia, Brown, Colorado, South Carolina State, and was an Operations Research Analyst for the U.S. Navy. He also had temporary positions with the US Treasury, the Social Security Administration, Mississippi State, M.I.T. Lincoln Lab, and Lawrence Livermore Lab.
Music John likes includes Nana Mouskouri, Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine, and Beethoven..
Books John likes include Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Great Transformation., The Brotherts Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn, and the Tale of Genji. Movies John likes include Thieves Like Us, Bad Day at Black Rock, Come See the Paradise, All the King's M...Expand for more
en, Lawrence of Arabia, All My Sons, and Winterset.
One of John's favorite quotes is:"Sing we for love and idleness,
Naught else is worth the having.
Though I have been in many a land,
There is naught else in living.
And I would rather have my sweet,
Though rose-leaves die of grieving,
Than do high deeds in Hungary
To pass all men's believing.
--Ezra Pound, "An Immorality"
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. --A. Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary."".
More about John:"Edible, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
--A. Bierce".
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