John W. Thomas:
CLASS OF 1976
Irvington High SchoolClass of 1976
Irvington, NY
Loyola UniversityClass of 1993
Chicago, IL
University of ChicagoClass of 1983
Chicago, IL
Orrington Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Evanston, IL
John W.'s Story
Life
Currently writing fiction in semi-retirement. I was born in Chicago near Wrigley Field, and when I was in middle school my family moved to New York. I attended Irvington High School where I was fortunate to be able to take computer programming, Latin, Spanish, and French. After graduation, I returned to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago (originally as a science major!) and then Loyola University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago I met my future wife, Elizabeth, played varsity soccer, and refereed intramural athletics. My wife and I were married in 1981. I completed my doctorate in 1993 at Loyola University of Chicago, with a dissertation on Tacitus and Roman Law. As teaching positions were a bit hard to come by, I worked briefly as a comput...Expand for more
er consultant, while teaching part-time as an instructor at Loyola, and then full-time for one year at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1995 to 2005 I taught at Iowa State in Classical Studies and directed the Foreign Language Learning Resource Center there. I next taught at Xavier University in Cincinnati Ohio. I retired from Xavier, but was encouraged to return to teaching, so from 2011 to 2018 I taught High School Latin at Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, and fulfilled my hope to "pay back" Mr. Maddaloni for the wonderful experience I had from him when I was at Irvington. My wife still teaches, and I spend most days writing. You can find the fiction I've written on Amazon. She still teaches and we've now finished writing 9 Latin books together.
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