More about me

I am in the process of proctoring some on-line testing of our senior students so I guess I will take advantage of this time. Looks like Omar, MJ and I are the only ones using the blog so far so this may prove to be an exercise in two way vs 30 ways conversation. I am still working....yes the economy slump has be going. But, since my mind is still active and sane (at least my opinion) I see no reason why I shouldn't keep on. Will probably hang it up after next year if my health prevails. Am Senior Associate Provost (SAP--finally being called what I really am) at WSU. In that role I am the chief of staff in the Provosts office. I am also the liaison with the Kansas Board of Regents and do our Performance agreement reports, program review and am generally the go between of the academic programs and the Regents. I deal with student and faculty problems, personnel issues, am the affirmative action officer for the academic affairs and research division. and generally do whatever is needed. Kent my husband is retired. He is a year younger than me...go figure. We purchased a home in Mexico and will most likely spend half or more of our lives there when we retire. His mother is still alive so we'll need to tend to her. Must close for now. Hope we hear from some of the rest of you folks.

Getting on

Well, I finally made it to the post. Omar, you are gutzy trying to get this class onto blogging. Hope it works. It could be fun.
Martha

Brief profile of Omer Troyer

Married Mary Jane Burkholder in 1964
Graduated from the University of Iowa in 1965
Taught at Highland of Riverside until 1974 with the exception of two years
Taught in Kuwait 1968-1969
Took 1970-71 to complete an MA at the U of I
Went to Anita, Iowa as high school principal from 1974 to 1979
Moved to Pella, IA in 1979 and served as high school principal until 1991
Established a high school for Bahraini student in Bahrain 1991-1999.
Worked as superintendent of school in Waukon, IA from 1999 to 2004
Retired to North Port, FL in 2004
Volunteered as an English teacher in Puyo, Ecuador 2007-08
We have travel the world extensively having visited 6 of 7 continents and some 48 countries
Mary Jane will outline family details in her profile.

Directions for using this blog

All members of the Class of 60 can contribute to and read this blog. This site will ONLY work if people contribute comments, descriptions, and picture to this site. There is limited value to being a reader only. While reading this information can be interesting, there is no information unless we as class members contribute.

Contributing is not rocket science. (Your are at least a high school gradute.)Please read the directions below and lets see what happens.

Step1 Be invited to the blog as an editor. This is done by sending an email to me at mjotroyer@gmail.com requesting access to the blog site as a contributor.

Step 2 I will send you a link from the blog with instructions about how to start posting to the blog. If you do not have a gmail account, don't worry. Instructions will be given as to how to create one. You MUST have a gmail account to make this work. If you already have a gmail account, posting to this web site is VERY simple.

Step 3 The "title" can be anything you want. However, in the lower right part of the screen in the "label" box type your full name. The blog site will show all postings by people's names. You will be able to click on the person's name and see all their posting at once. Of course, you can make as many posts as you wish.

If you have questions or problems, please send me an email. mjotroyer@gmail.com

Some additional instruction

If you have not posted to a blog before, you may not know how to add pictures. When creating a post, this is done very simply by (1) clicking on the picture icon just to the right of the abc with a check mark above on the tool bar. (2) locate the picture on your computer and (3) hit the upload button. The picture included in this posting is of Mary Jane and I in front of Ayers Rock in central Australia this past November