User:Professor JR

The Grand Teton Mountain Range in Northwestern Wyoming

Wyoming State Flag

Indian Paintbrush
Wyoming State Flower

Profile

Professor JR is a proud native son of the American West, who was born and grew up on the sagebrush prairies of the High Plains in southeastern Wyoming, north of Cheyenne.

Pronghorn Antelope

Hereford bull

His lineage on his mother's side consists of Quaker and Amish ancestors, who came to North America before the American Revolution. On his father's side, he is a descendant of Dutch General Godert de Ginkell, 1st Earl of Athlone, who accompanied William of Orange (later King William III) to England as his chief lieutenant in the "Glorious Revolution" that deposed King James II in 1688. In the 19th Century, Professor JR's branches of the two families settled in the Nebraska and Wyoming Territories of the American West.

His father was a Superintendent of Public Schools in Wyoming, and his mother a performing violinist and music teacher. He has two brothers, one a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, and the other a retired Regional Administrator of the FAA.

Grasslands of southeastern Wyoming

Professor JR earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, studying on a Ford Foundation Scholarship; spent two years abroad as a Fulbright Scholar & Professor; and later in his career, completed a program for government executives at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Over the course of his career, he has held positions as a University Professor of American History and American Studies; as a theatre and film critic; as a National Park Ranger; as a Legislative Aide in the U.S. Congress; and as a senior Federal Government Official in Washington, DC, where he resides.

Career Highlights

Entrance to the University of Hawaii Mānoa Campus

View of University of Idaho Arboretum & Botanical Garden - University of Idaho

Academia

Asunción, Capital City of Paraguay.
From the top to bottom, left to right: Asunción skyline; Citibank Tower; Asunción Cabildo (City Hall); Pantheon of National Heroes; Palacio de los López (Capitol); Hotel Guaraní.

The University of Hawaii's Mānoa Campus - viewed from Tantalus Drive, with Diamond Head in the background

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• University of Hawaii, Honolulu -- American Literature.

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• University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho -- British & American Literature.

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• Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay --
  American History; American Literature; American Political Thought;
  Chairman, Department of English Languages, Instituto de Lenguas.

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Bison graze in a geothermal hot springs meadow in Yellowstone National Park

Seal of the
United States Department
of the Interior

Government

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• National Park Service --- Park Ranger, Yellowstone NP;
  National Program Manager, Headquarters, Washington, DC.

• United States Congress --- Legislative Aide.

• U.S. Department of the Interior --- SES Executive; Congressional Liaison.

NPS Emblem

United States Congress - Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.

Memberships

• Assoc. of National Park Rangers (ANPR) - Life Member.
• Employees & Alumni Association of the Nat'l. Park Service (E&AA) - Life Member.
• National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA).
• Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
• National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
• Nature Conservancy.
• ΌΔΚ - Omicron Delta Kappa Nat'l. Honor Society.
• ΦΔΘ - Phi Delta Theta.
• Iron Skull Honor Society.
• Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles.
• Society of American Magicians.
• Honolulu Academy of Arts - Associate Member.
• HeForShe. [1]

Personal Data

Washington, D.C.

United States Flag

Professor JR resides with his wife --- an Emmy-winning television & film producer, and a native of Upstate New York's Mohawk Valley --- and his family, just outside Washington, DC.

Collectible theatrical poster for Magician "Herrmann the Great's" stage show

Antique poster for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show

The "Bronco Buster" -
Frederic Remington (1909)

Some of my favorite things

Contemporary Modern Art

First edition of Ulysses, Egoist Press (1922)

Supporter of
"He For She"

He operates a small modern & contemporary art and antiques & collectibles business in Northern Virginia, and enjoys pursuing avocational interests in writing, and in the art of magic and illusion and collecting antique magic apparatus and memorabilia.

He also collects first edition books -- focusing primarily on early to mid-20th Century American fiction, and the works among others of: Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas,
Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Graham Greene, and Lawrence Durrell.

He shares with his family a love of the outdoors, and of classic films, and a long-standing participation in local animal welfare & rescue work, in addition to playing golf (not very well) and other pursuits --- including painting and photography --- and being, still, an active student of literature.

First edition of
This Side of Paradise (1920)

First edition of
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

States & Countries Lived in & Visited

U.S. states and foreign countries I have resided in and been to are shown - Here.

See Also

• Wyoming
• The American Frontier
• The Great Plains
• The High Plains of the United States
• Yellowstone National Park
• Grand Teton National Park
• Devil's Tower National Monument
• Fort Laramie National Historic Site
• Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls

Recommended Reading

Books

• Larry K. Brown - Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming (Foreward by Nola Blackburn), High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyo., 2001. ISBN-0-931271-55-X.

• Larry K. Brown - Hog Ranches for Wyoming: Liquor, lust, and Lies Under Sagebrush Skies, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyo., 1995.

• Jerome A. Greene - Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis (Foreward by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.), Montana Historical Society Press, Helena, 2000. ISBN-0-917298-68-3.

• T.A. Larson - History of Wyoming, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2nd rev. ed., 1990.

• T. A. Larson - Wyoming’s War Years, Wyoming State Historical Society, 2nd edition, revised, 1993.

• Rodger McDaniel - Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt (Foreward by former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson), WordsWorth, Cody, Wyo., 2013. ISBN-9780983027591. See also: Lester C. Hunt

• Thomas McNamee - Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone, Henry Holt, 1997.[2] ^{Retrieved 2015-07-04}

• Mari Sandoz - The Buffalo Hunters, Hastings House, New York, 1954.

• Jack Schaefer - Shane, 1949.

• Paul Schullery - The Bears of Yellowstone, Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1992.[3] ^{Retrieved 2015-07-04}

• Dan Sholly (former Yellowstone Chief Ranger), with Steve M. Newman - Guardians of Yellowstone: An Intimate Look at the Challenges of Protecting America’s Foremost Wilderness Park, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1991.[4] ^{Retrieved 2015-07-04}

• Elinore Pruitt Stewart - Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebr., 1989.

• Samuel Western - Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul, Homestead Pub., Moose, Wyo., 2002.

Reports

• NPCA, National Parks Second Century Commission Report, 2009.[5] ^{Retrieved 2015-07-04}

• NPCA, The State of America’s Parks, 2011.[6] ^{Retrieved 2015-07-04}

External Links

• Seeing Some Good Country: The Life of a Yellowstone Ranger, by George Bellerose - available for free download (2.6 MB) from ANPR.

MagicPedia

Professor JR - under the same username, is also an editor and supporter of MagicPedia, the on-line free encyclopedia dedicated to preserving the history and techniques of magic, which provides entries on topics pertaining to the arts of magic and illusion not included in Wikipedia, and entries with more detailed information for topics that are included.

Barnstars

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