INTRODUCING MY MEMPHIS BLACK STUDENTS IN THE LATE 1960S In 1966, I moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to teach at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), a Presbyterian college. Frustrated with the local Presbyterian church’s failure to address the challenges of the Civil Rights movement, I chose to volunteer at LeMoyne College, a local historically Black…

Dyslexia, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, or Just Plain Slow? As a young kid, I always struggled with detailed thinking and expression, whether in writing or speaking. My schoolwork was consistently below average in those early years because I often misspelled or mispronounced basic words, terms, and names. I clearly remember my best friend asking why I always…