UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

About a month before my contract expired with ROCAP (8/81) I got the Assembly, which is published by the Association of Graduates on a monthly basis. It told that a classmate, John F. Hook had been appointed Chairman of the Department of Business and Economics at Mount Saint Mary's at Emittsburg, MD. I wrote to him to congratulate him and told him that I was completing my tour in Guatemala.

Sometime later he called and offered me a job teaching Economics. Actually he wanted me to take over a position in the middle of the semester. I agreed to take an assignment in January and that turned out to be my first fulltime teaching assignment. I taught from January till August of 1981 and that turned out to be the longest I was gone from Isabel and Monica. I got to see Dolores and Cecilia in Virginia and Maryland every now and then.

It was a grind and for the amount of money I was getting, it was just not worth it. So I got another full-time teaching assignment, this time at the College of Santa Fe. I taught Management, Economics, & Statistics for a year.

The daily drive to Santa Fe got to me and I sought a position teaching at the University of New Mexico. That is when I learned the hard facts of life. UNM does not have nor does it hire Mexicans for tenured positions in the Management Schools. They use a host of excuses but they will hire on a per course basis, i.e. as an adjunct professor. Well I did that and I taught in Anderson Schools of Management, the Mathematics Department, the Mechanical Engineering Department, and at the Valencia Campus I taught courses for all of the foregone departments. Some of these courses were at the Correctional Institutions at Los Lunas. The students were inmates at those institutions. The commute to Belen got rough after three years and in 1986 I curtailed my teaching except at the main campus.

I taught one or three courses almost each semester, except in the summers. Interpersonal Dynamics at the graduate level became my forte and Organizational Theory at the under-graduate level followed in that order. I hooked up with Prentice-Hall as a result of using their texts and wound up writing the Instructor's Manuals for 1991, 1993 and 1996 to accompany the Organizational Behavior text by Stephen Robbins.

When I did not get an adjunct assignment at UNM I managed to get one at Webster University either at Kirtland AFB, Iceland or Burmuda. I also taught MS-DOS, LOTUS, DBASE III +, and WordPerfect at Muir College. So I was busy, sometimes too busy. I also managed to work for Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos as an Economic Consultant for a year.

I had more energy when I was doing all that than I do now that I am doing just this! Oh well, but I did pick up two more, albeit small pensions, one from TIAA-CREF for the time I taught at Mount St. Mary's and at the College of Santa Fe and another for the time I taught at UNM.

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