Welcome to the Semester at Sea Summer 14 Faculty Blog. I will try to keep you updated, provide tips and suggestions, and keep you excited about our amazing voyage.
YOU ARE A TALENTED (AND POSSIBLY WEIRD) GROUP OF PEOPLE! Get this: among you is someone who:
Has been listed as one of the Princeton Review's 300 "Best Professors" in America (2012)
Has had books translated into Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, French, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Greek
Once saw Dustin Hoffman in Big Sur
Has been a singer and trumpet player in a cover band
Participated in the Junior Olympics in fencing
Was a fighter pilot in the USAF
Shared a stage with George ("Star Trek") Takai and Lea Salonga in a Broadway-bound musical
Has a pink and blonde mohawk
Once attended a five-hour speech by Fidel Castro
Co-owns a fantasy baseball team (and served as Commissioner)
Drives a solar-powered car
Won a beauty pageant as an 8-year-old YMCA camper
Worked as an aerialist/flyer in a theater company
Was once chased by an alligator
Writes for the New Yorker blog
Once grew one of the world's largest lab-produced slab of monocrystalline ice
Has been an expert witness in cases argued before the US Supreme Court
Was born in Cuba
Hangs out periodically with Kevin Costner at his ranch in Aspen
Once taught a course in the Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London
Hosted a TV series in rural Ohio
Won the Under Armour What's Beautiful Competition to redefine the female athlete (competing against 10,000 women).
Has published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, London Review of Books, Washington Post, and the New Republic
Comes from a family where all three men were Eagle Scouts
Wrote questions for the TV game show "Hollywood Squares"
Is President of his profession's largest international organization
Was charged by a water buffalo in Indonesia (Fulbright Scholar)
Appeared weekly on two PBS educational TV shows as a child
Lived in the Fiji Islands, surfing, diving, and doing underwater photography (Fulbright Scholar)
Was once offered better shoes by HRH Henrik, Prince of Denmark
Is descended from "Blacky," a full-blooded chief from the Nez Pierce tribe
Was Christine's understudy in the national tour of "Phantom of the Opera"
Scaled an 18,500-foot peak in Nepal, overlooking the Everest Base Camp
Has worked as a Park Ranger at the Statue of Liberty
Has worked as a wallpaper hanger
Has been interviewed on "Dateline NBC"
Attended Woodstock
Once saw Andy Warhol (or a double, or a fuzzy-haired bum) in New York City
Aspires to be a spear carrier in the triumphal march of "Aida"
Was in the World Trade Center three days before it was attacked
Won a disco dance contest
Holds Thomas Jefferson's seat in the Virginia Delegate Assembly
Met the cast of "Bonanza" and had lunch with Little Joe
Is a college president who plays the harp in a blues band
Once travelled to Cuba as an illustrator for Cigar News
Spilled ice cream into Jimmy Stewart's lap
Was knighted by a king
Had two grandfathers who immigrated to the US from Norway
Has entertained Bill Nye and Steve Allen at home
Has surfed on five continents
Was a regional high school champ in the indoor one-miler
Is a foodie who has eaten things like crocodile, antelope, sheep's head, puffin, and whale
Counts among her friends Celtic bards, Cornish witches, and Ojibwe women
Serves as a local planning commissioner
Had a starring role in a German-language romantic comedy, in Germany
Was drafted to play professional football
Lived in remote Japan while her father spied on the Russians
Lives in two Portlands (Oregon AND Maine)
Once dined on goat organs with kings and tribal leaders in a remote village in South Africa
Married his high school sweetheart
Has been bitten twice by sharks (a 17-foot great white and a 13-foot tiger)
Was a visiting scholar at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch
Has several nieces and nephews who are OLDER than she is
Founded a shelter for battered women
Has driven an ice-breaker in the Arctic
Stay tuned!
YOU ARE A TALENTED (AND POSSIBLY WEIRD) GROUP OF PEOPLE! Get this: among you is someone who:
Has been listed as one of the Princeton Review's 300 "Best Professors" in America (2012)
Has had books translated into Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, French, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Greek
Once saw Dustin Hoffman in Big Sur
Has been a singer and trumpet player in a cover band
Participated in the Junior Olympics in fencing
Was a fighter pilot in the USAF
Shared a stage with George ("Star Trek") Takai and Lea Salonga in a Broadway-bound musical
Has a pink and blonde mohawk
Once attended a five-hour speech by Fidel Castro
Co-owns a fantasy baseball team (and served as Commissioner)
Drives a solar-powered car
Won a beauty pageant as an 8-year-old YMCA camper
Worked as an aerialist/flyer in a theater company
Was once chased by an alligator
Writes for the New Yorker blog
Once grew one of the world's largest lab-produced slab of monocrystalline ice
Has been an expert witness in cases argued before the US Supreme Court
Was born in Cuba
Hangs out periodically with Kevin Costner at his ranch in Aspen
Once taught a course in the Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London
Hosted a TV series in rural Ohio
Won the Under Armour What's Beautiful Competition to redefine the female athlete (competing against 10,000 women).
Has published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, London Review of Books, Washington Post, and the New Republic
Comes from a family where all three men were Eagle Scouts
Wrote questions for the TV game show "Hollywood Squares"
Is President of his profession's largest international organization
Was charged by a water buffalo in Indonesia (Fulbright Scholar)
Appeared weekly on two PBS educational TV shows as a child
Lived in the Fiji Islands, surfing, diving, and doing underwater photography (Fulbright Scholar)
Was once offered better shoes by HRH Henrik, Prince of Denmark
Is descended from "Blacky," a full-blooded chief from the Nez Pierce tribe
Was Christine's understudy in the national tour of "Phantom of the Opera"
Scaled an 18,500-foot peak in Nepal, overlooking the Everest Base Camp
Has worked as a Park Ranger at the Statue of Liberty
Has worked as a wallpaper hanger
Has been interviewed on "Dateline NBC"
Attended Woodstock
Once saw Andy Warhol (or a double, or a fuzzy-haired bum) in New York City
Aspires to be a spear carrier in the triumphal march of "Aida"
Was in the World Trade Center three days before it was attacked
Won a disco dance contest
Holds Thomas Jefferson's seat in the Virginia Delegate Assembly
Met the cast of "Bonanza" and had lunch with Little Joe
Is a college president who plays the harp in a blues band
Once travelled to Cuba as an illustrator for Cigar News
Spilled ice cream into Jimmy Stewart's lap
Was knighted by a king
Had two grandfathers who immigrated to the US from Norway
Has entertained Bill Nye and Steve Allen at home
Has surfed on five continents
Was a regional high school champ in the indoor one-miler
Is a foodie who has eaten things like crocodile, antelope, sheep's head, puffin, and whale
Counts among her friends Celtic bards, Cornish witches, and Ojibwe women
Serves as a local planning commissioner
Had a starring role in a German-language romantic comedy, in Germany
Was drafted to play professional football
Lived in remote Japan while her father spied on the Russians
Lives in two Portlands (Oregon AND Maine)
Once dined on goat organs with kings and tribal leaders in a remote village in South Africa
Married his high school sweetheart
Has been bitten twice by sharks (a 17-foot great white and a 13-foot tiger)
Was a visiting scholar at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch
Has several nieces and nephews who are OLDER than she is
Founded a shelter for battered women
Has driven an ice-breaker in the Arctic
Stay tuned!
