Paul Hyde:  

Life Well! What a quaint prospect. Telling one's life story to people with whom you once had an acquaintance eons ago. I have written an autobiography that covers the first forty years of my life and that, without photographs, is now in excess of 3600 typeset pages (12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced). My guess is that Classmates.com will not allow me to post that vast repository of trivia on its website. I once sent one of my volumenous documents to the mainframe at Purdue Univcersity and shut down the computer center for three days. I can sense the administrators wincing even as I type. Fot all who have any inkling as to who I am, I will submit to you that I have had a wonderful life thus far. After graduating from High School, I served my country for six years in the military. Afterwards I served my Church for two and one-half years in southern Mexico as a full-time missionary. I married after my return home, and have stayed married for nearly 38 years. We have 7 married children and 21 grandchildren, so far. I attended Brigham Young University as a Spanish Major-English Teaching Minor. I received my Master's Degree in English Language and Linguistics from the same Institution. After some Doctoral work at USC, I completed my degree at Purdue University in English Language and Literature. My dissertation was 3-volumes 1200 pages long (the very same document that shut down the computing center for three days). Since that time I have penned over 50 essays and 25 books on various topics, from the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien to the Epistles of Paul the Apostle. I have an Honorary Doctorate from the Tolkien Society of America for my work in creative linguistics.I have lectured throughout the United States, Canada, and England on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and ...Expand for more