Coming To the End

Well, folks, coming to the end of a fabulous semester here at Harlaxton College in Harlaxton Manor. Finished grading my last final about an hour ago and have turned in all my grades. We leave tomorrow for Heathrow Airport and then out on Thursday and back to Pittsburgh by evening where I can't wait to see my lovely wife again--Skype is nice but it ain't the same. Sorry I didn't get a last post out on the events surrounding the end of the term, but I was just too busy. When I get back to Bethany I'm planning to prepare a full presentation on my semester here and what our students can expect when they enroll. I'll be sure to post that on this blog by the beginning of the new year so those of you who were faithful followers can see it as well as those on campus.

As I told the students and staff the other night during the choir's rendition of a new anthem for the school, "O Harlaxton," written by Dr. Kay Gandy a visiting prof here this term from Western Kentucky U., I myself was only 21 years old when I first came to England. That trip--done by myself at the insistence of David Judy--gave me the wanderlust which I still have. I was 60 last Sunday, and in the interim I've been to the continent numerous times, Africa, Asia several times, Australia and New Zealand, and of course back to the UK many, many times. But with the exception of my honeymoon 10 years ago, this has been the best because of this place and the students and staff of Harlaxton College. My wish for them was that they will still have the wanderlust 40 years on.