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Jon M.Duff 2258 East Randall Road Gilbert, AZ 85296 480-632-7323 jmduff+asu.edu To use the above email address, replace the "+" with an at sign, (@),. This is done so robots will not pick up the address to use for spam. |
Posted 3/25/16 Since it’s been the Anita and Jon show for nearly forty-six years, and we are possibly the sole remaining 1966-1966 couple, you get to read about us here, together. We both went to Purdue for our undergraduate degrees, married two weeks after I finished basic training, and Anita started her dietetics career in the Purdue residence hall system. I completed a Purdue master’s degree and taught at IVY Tech when our first daughter, Kathy, was born in Lafayette. (Bob Troyer named her “Kathy Custard” because she loved going to Columbian Park and was regularly covered in chocolate.) I was accepted into a doctoral program at Ohio State and ripped Anita from a master’s program she had started at Purdue. Thirteen years later in Ohio, we had had a second daughter, Abbe, Anita had recommenced her masters after working as a hospital and university dietitian, and I had been promoted and tenured in engineering at OSU. Purdue called, and we moved back to WL with Anita’s masters still undone. (She had put me through three degrees, so I had to promise no more moves until she was done. Fair enough.) Kathy and Abbe were both swimmers at WL and Anita became a Purdue foods manager, finished her masters degree, and became director of food service for WL schools when Mrs. Mac retired. I was promoted to full professor, started a new BS program in the School of Technology, and we settled into life in University Farms. An earlier 1987 trip through Arizona taught us that hot and dry is a whole lot better than hot and wet (like Florida) so following a sabbatical in AZ in 1992, and after Kathy and Abbe’s high school graduations, I accepted a position at Arizona State University in 1997 where I eventually retired in 2011. Abbe and her family (granddaughter Brynn and grandson Cooper) live about three miles from us where she and her husband are both teachers in the Chandler schools. Kathy, after living twenty years in Arizona and teaching special education, moved back to WL where her husband Chris is an electrician for Purdue and their son, Drew, goes to Klondike elementary. Anita and I are enjoying retirement, our grandchildren, traveling, and the fantastic Arizona weather. We manage to get back to Purdue for a couple of football games each year. Always Boilermakers! |