Richard Gamble

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Just before the school year ended, probably in 1958, we had no exams one day, so Herb and I took off and spent a glorious day at Pymatuning. We came back high on sunshine, adolescence and the prospect of summer, stopped for gas and found that the town was abuzz over a murder/suicide. Judy Barber, who had graduated two or three years ahead of us, had been strangled with a vacuum cleaner cord by her lover, an older man who worked at the post office. He then killed himself, as it was reported. The world seemed not so sunny.

Four years at Westminster. Then 2 teaching at Sharon High School. Then four years at Pitt to get a MA and PhD in English. Then 6 years teaching at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Ia. Then a year in Chicago for a post-doc teaching followship at the Newberry Library. Then two years of parenting and part-time teaching in Latrobe, Pa., while wife had primary job as Squibb rep. Then to Atlanta for 20 years where I was editor of several financial trade journals. When I went to free-lance writing, moved to Grand Junction, Colo., where I write, ride my bike and do volunteer work for Hospice.