Thomas "Tom" Page:
CLASS OF 1955
Hampton High SchoolClass of 1955
Hampton, VA
Escola Americana SchoolClass of 1955
Rio de janeiro,
Longfellow Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Riverside, CA
Lowell Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Riverside, CA
Fremont Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Riverside, CA
Thomas "Tom"'s Story
Life
I left Rio late in 1953 and graduated from Hampton HS, Hampton, VA, in 1955--departed and attended college in Wichita, Kansas--graduated from the University of Wichita in 1960 (now Wichita State Univ.) Took a MA in political science at Vanderbilt University in 1963 (organized "Vanderbilt Students for Kennedy" in 1960 in a hostile political environment), studied in Rio de Janeiro, and entered the US Army in 1964 for two years. Married in college and divorced in 71, when Leslie and I married; we lived in Wichita, Kansas, for thirty years. We have raised three children: two college grads, and our youngest son attends USC. I worked at teaching and other pursuits while Leslie graduated from med school and completed a residency in ob/gyn in the middle o...Expand for more
f raising the kids; I went back to grad school for a MFA in creative writing (1985) after a stint as an officer with the Wichita PD. After the serious academic retread and against my better judgement, I taught political science at Wichita State until 1999--you might say I was drafted. Last year we moved to Spruce Pine, NC, after our youngest finished high school and headed out for L.A. and USC; and we live in the woods in the Blue Ridge mtns. Between us and the kids, we delivered seven votes for Al Gore in 2000. I recently received an award for my work in the 90s as secretary, Dept. of Kansas, of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. I miss Kansas, but Leslie needed a break after thirty years in a landscape that only a native plainsman can love.
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