John Machnic:
CLASS OF 1969
Tonawanda High SchoolClass of 1969
Tonawanda, NY
Niagara UniversityClass of 1974
Niagara university, NY
John's Story
Life
Well, I retired in 2016 and am enjoying retirement. I play a lot of golf throughout the week. In addition to golf, I still teach online for several colleges.
Prior to joining AI Thomas, I had my own company, I worked in the Florida Community College system. From 1999 through 2004, I was a resource development officer at Florida Community College in Jacksonville. From 1995 through 1999 I was Director of Institutional Research and Planning for Florida Keys Community College. I had a great office overlooking the Florida Bay. I moved to Key West with my now ex-wife who was the Director of Historic Preservation for the Florida Keys.
Going back to the start, I am originally from Upstate New York, the city of Tonawanda to be exact. I spent the first 18 years of my life in a community located eight miles north of Buffalo and 12 miles south of Niagara Falls. I attended an elementary school, junior high school and senior high school all within a two-mile radius form my home.
After graduating from high school in 1969, the same year as Woodstock, I embarked on a ten-year college career. I earned a BA in 1974 from Niagara University majoring in political science. Not having a clue what to do with the degree, I took the advise of a faculty member and applied for graduate school at Ball State U. in Muncie, IN (some will remember the famous study identifying Muncie as (Middletown, USA?). From B...Expand for more
all State, I moved to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and SU in the hills of Virginia. The move to Virginia changed my focus from political science to economics. While at VPI, I had the opportunity to study under a Nobel Prize winning economist, James Buchanan. I finished my class work in 1978 and my dissertation in 1983.
After finishing my class work in 1978, I accepted a summer position, which became full time, at the US Geological Survey in Reston, VA. While government employment was interesting, I choose to leave and accepted a position at the University of Dayton Research Institute as a Research Economist. Working at UD provided me the opportunity to complete my dissertation, which I defended in May 1983.
Upon completing my dissertation, which was a study of the development of property rights in the coal industry, I ventured into the private sector, accepting a position in the Coal Department of CSX Corporation in Jacksonville, FL. I spent six years with CSX and in 1989 decided to make a career move by helping a personal friend run for the US Senate. This career move resulted in a five-year career as a political consultant. We moved to the Keys and now you know the whole story.
1983 - PhD - Economics - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1976 - MA - Economics and Political Science - Ball State University
1974 - BA - Political Science - Niagara University
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