By popular demand, little-known facts about Prof. T.:
His favorite
dog breed is the English Bull Terrier.
What he actually has:
A little ragamuffin named Freckles
Professor T.
stays in the boat.
Prof. T.: The
Early Years
Prof. T. grew up
in the wilds of Omaha, Nebraska. Here is a photo of the savage saber-toothed
Nebraskan deer he had to fight off while walking to school.
Our neighborhood
also abounded with fearsome Dundee death-worms
Prof. T. needs to
be restrained if there are many potsherds lying around.
He is one of the administration's favorite faculty members.
Here, Prof. T. and administrator share a reflective moment. Which is
which, though?
Prof. T.
himself once gave 537 milliseconds of thought to a career in academic
administration, but at least at present, the training regimen is too tough for
him.
Here
Prof. T. contemplates how to handle some slackers who skipped exams.
Through his great-grandmother, Clara Bell Storrs, Prof. T. is related to some significant figures from US History, assuming his and others' genealogical research is correct:
Rutherford Birchard
Hayes
James Garfield
William Howard Taft
(especially strong similarity in waistline)
Gerald Ford
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Sarah Palin (a
level 50 mage of New England ancestry, by the way, with 10 Mayflower
ancestors)
(No pic) Henry Randolph Storrs, New York Congressman (1817-1821, 1823-1831), a vehement opponent of Andrew Jackson, and especially Jackson 's policy of treaty-breaking and forced removals of Indians.
Prof. T.'s 7th
great-grandfather and grandmother, Sergeant Thomas Putnam and Anne Carr Putnam
were principals in the Salem Witch Trials, along with his 6th great-great aunt,
Anne Putnam Jr.
His 9th
great-grandfather, John Putnam, was a Puritan immigrant to America, and one of
those charged with making sure that the residents of Salem Village went to
church on Sunday, the ironic point being that he could hardly be in church
himself if he were out patrolling the roads.
The maternal side
of Prof. T.'s family is entirely Irish Catholic, however, and John Putnam would
undoubtedly be horrified that Prof. T. and others of his descendants are
papists. He might have approved of St. Patrick expelling the serpents from
Ireland, though.