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<\/a>Sometime in the psychedelic \u201860s headed north for graduate study in Canada. Toronto was an intellectual mecca in those days with many academic luminaries, the most notable of which were the wizard of the north Northrop Frye and media pop star Marshall McLuhan. When I was invited to McLuhan\u2019s home for a party one evening, I was greeted at the door by his son who proceeded to tell me I was an imbecile for taking his father\u2019s courses.<\/p>\nAt the University of Toronto I completed my Ph.D. dissertation under the direction of Northrop Frye \u2013 the title of which was \u201cWilliam Blake: A Study in the Human Sciences\u201d. The Ph.D. degree in English was conferred in 1978.<\/p>\n
After that I went over to England where I had a research appointment at the University of London. It was in London that I made the amazing scientific discovery that there are two genders (among Homo Sapiens) on planet earth. My secondary education had been at the all-boys Central High School of Philadelphia. I matriculated at an all-men\u2019s college in Ohio and I never even majored in biology there. So this was quite a revelation for me. Why I never published it in Nature<\/em> I don\u2019t know? But it helps explain why that old Kenyon cleaning lady looked so damn good to me!<\/p>\n Also in London I became interested in small aviation \u2013 the very definition of serendipity for me. I was fortunate to have been able to see much of England, Ireland, Holland, Yugoslavia from the cockpit of a Piper Twin Comanche (GAPZF).<\/p>\n My teaching career in the English Department spanned several institutions including Toronto, Penn State University, Holy Family University and Bucks County Community College. At Penn State I taught a graduate course called \u201cRecent British and American Poetry\u201d. But most of your energy is dissipated in the lower-division courses. The beginning of every semester was the same \u2013 I would gather the first round of freshman essays, review them to make an initial diagnosis, and begin to weep \u2013 not for them but for myself.<\/p>\n About 20 years ago traded in the Volvo and the corduroy jacket and transitioned over to a second career. I enlisted in Jack Bogle\u2019s navy with The Vanguard Group in Valley Forge, PA.<\/p>\n Currently I am an education and investment specialist with the Education Savings Group at Vanguard. Frequently I will be called upon to put out a fire with an elevated client; and occasionally I will be called upon to give a seminar on a topic relating to investments or to our complex tax code.<\/p>\n The summer will mark my 20th<\/sup> anniversary in the financial services sector with Vanguard. How I have managed to last in this navy for 20 years bogles my mind.<\/p>\n Finally, I have served as a member of the Board of Directors of a community center for health and human services delivery. Community activist on issues of Mental Health\/Mental Retardation. For the Public Committee in the Humanities \u2013 served as advisor to public outreach programs in the humanities. Evaluated long-term funded projects on public policy issues in the humanities.<\/p>\n Occasionally \u2013 at my work with the Education Savings Group \u2013 I will receive a call from a parent who is sending her child to a small, select liberal arts college on a verdant hill in Gambier, Ohio \u2013 and I will invariably tell her \u2013 with unmitigated envy \u2013 what a wonderful four years they have to look forward to.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JEROME E. GOLDBERG<\/p>\n 1719 Tustin Street<\/p>\n Philadelphia PA 19152-1807<\/p>\n Phone # (215) 742-3590<\/p>\n Email\u00a0 jeromeegoldberg@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JEROME E. GOLDBERG \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometime in the psychedelic \u201860s headed north for graduate study in Canada. Toronto was an intellectual mecca in those days with many academic luminaries, the most notable of which were the wizard of the north Northrop … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n