Tim et.al
Thanks for your concern. I took a disability retirement last december
because of serious physical and psychiatric problems. I taught for 26 years
and put up with a lot of crap that all of you know, ranging from students
that make you question if you were in the right profession to constant
battles with the administration. I earned excellent evaluations every year
and several teaching awards but I had to stop because I was self destructing
and on so many meds that I was loosing my ability to function. No one has
called me since to ask how I am doing. How do I feel about it? Sometimes I
catch myself looking at the clock and thinking about what I would be doing
at that hour if I was working. Other times, mI think of my lab and the
students who I worked with. Other times, I watch the blinding snow storms
when I wondered if I would get home (52 miles), and am glad to be home.
So, to paraphase Douglas McCarther in his farewell speech to congress-
I now close the book on my 26 year teaching career.
Old teachers never die,
They just fade away.
And because of the kind of teacher that I was,
I just fade away, knowing that I was
A teacher who did his duty,
As God gave me the light
To see that duty.
Goodbye
Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D.
parolled Psychology professor
Feris State University
Dept. of Social Sciences
From: "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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Subject: [tips] RE: No one really knows the cost of war
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:45:42 -0700
Richard- Are you on Sabbatical??!? (Parolled?) Tell me stories. I'm
scheduled for next year. Due to factors beyond my control (team player, the
wife says I'm good at doing what's good for the department but not for me,
hmmmm) it has been, gulp, 11 years! Hanging in there, Tim
_______________________________
Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
Professor and Chair Department of Psychology
Albertson College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID 83605
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history
and systems
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From: Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 3/6/2007 5:59 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] RE: No one really knows the cost of war
Many of the returning Vietnam vets only went to the VA once. They were
treated so badly, they never went back. So, of course the VA didn't include
them in any negative stats.
Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D.
parolled Psychology professor
Feris State University
Dept. of Social Sciences
>From: "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
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>Subject: [tips] RE: No one really knows the cost of war
>Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:26:02 -0700
>
>Michael said:
> As a matter of fact the VA was shocked about the paucity of drug
>addicted Vietnam vets. Although drugs were readily available in Nam and
>lots of Vets did drugs ,when they came home they were in fine shape.
>
>Michael- This is commonly believed but not true. They were surprized
>about the "reversal" of heroin/opiate addiction and that fit into a few
>people's ideas about situational tolerances. I'm not aware of any
>differentiation between a) bad estimates of addiction over there, b) bad
>estimates of how they'd cope when they returned (i.e., what drugs they'd
>switch to), c) a complete non-understanding of PTSD and how it would
>"play out" when they returned home. It wasn't that they were or were not
>addicted but that the VA was completely incapable of dealing with the
>problems the vets had. Seems like we haven't learned very much given
>what is apparently going on at Reed.
>Tim
>_____________________________________________
>Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
>Albertson College of Idaho
>2112 Cleveland Blvd
>Caldwell, ID 83605 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>teaching: intro, neuropsychology, bio psych, methods, history and
>system, psychopharm
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