George Avalos:
CLASS OF 1980
Theodore Roosevelt High School Class of 1980
San antonio, TX
George's Story
I have not lived in San Antonio since the Reagan Administration, but am still very fond of the old town, and can never think of it without becoming a bit wistful.
Here are some further details of what most neutral observers would regard as a manifestly boring life: After working and studying in Houston for a few years, I went to Graduate School at the University of Virginia, where I obtained the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. Thereafter, I was a Postdoc at the University of Minnesota, and then an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech in the Department of Mathematics.
After having stayed in Lubbock for a time, I left it to become an Associate Professor, and eventually Full Professor, of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I am in Lincoln still.
I have been married now for many years. No doubt every married person regards his or her spouse with great partiality; but ...Expand for more
my wife truly is a first rate human being. If the Presidential Medal of Freedom were handed out for the patient endurance of nonsense, she would have several of those things around her neck by now.
Having been around the block a time or two, I would say that the most important tool an incoming undergraduate can possess is the ability to read, and to truly, truly understand what has just been read. It is for this reason that I remember my teachers from the NEISD with great affection and gratitude; from First Grade to Twelfth, they seemed to have waged an unspoken crusade to try to create a hard reading and hard thinking generation.
I hope all my friends from the old days are doing well, and are in good health. Please feel free to send email, to let me know of your whereabouts, and how you are getting along; I would love to hear from you. (My address is gavalos at math.unl.edu)
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