The End of a Matter is Better Than the Beginning: Retirement Edition
The last day of class is better than the first day
Just a brief note to mark my last day of classes as a full time professor at Grove City College. After 29 years, it is time to grade the final paper and deliver the final test. The regular season ends today and the playoffs (final exams) start on Friday. After graduation, I will finish cleaning out my office and start a new chapter.
By a vote of students in class, Monica McGoldrick won the final Psyche Award today for best therapist in a counseling video. Today was the last time for me to do that tongue-in-cheek award ceremony in my Principles of Counseling class. A woman with a clown phobia won the award for best actress in a counseling video and a father who found his feelings in a family therapy training video won for best actor. I use video cases to demonstrate counseling theories and offer commentary on the action. It is always great fun. Or at least the incredibly kind students humor me into thinking it is.
I don’t plan to stop working. I want to write more and pursue certain hobbies more aggressively. A second edition of Getting Jefferson Right is in the works and will, Lord willing, come out in Fall, 2023. Watch for it.
Let me add a big thanks to colleagues and students at GCC for a great and fulfilling career. It hasn’t all been wonderful, but today, the blessings are all I want to remember.
congratulations
i wish you well
Thank you for all of your amazing years at GCC! You brought so much joy to the Psych department but I pray that your years of retirement will be bountiful.