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Phil May

I went to college (Catawba College, A.B.) and master's level education (Wake Forest, M.A.) in North Carolina, enlisted in the US Public Health Service, was sent West to Idaho and South Dakota (where I met and married my wife, Doreen). We then went to Montana where I completed my formal education (Ph.D.) at the University of Montana in Missoula while living in the beautiful but rugged Bitter Root Valley. We then moved to Northern Arizona (2 years), New Mexico (Doreen's native state where she grew up on the Laguna Pueblo reservation), and we moved back east to North Carolina in 2011. I was a professor of Sociology, Family and Community Medicine, and Psychiatry for 33 years at the University of New Mexico, teaching and practicing epidemiology research. Doreen was a certified expanded functions Dental Assistant and Supervisor for the US Public Health Service and a number of Indian tribes for over 40 years. She is retired and I am currently a full-time Research Professor for UNC-Chapel Hill in the School Public Health. I work from a research campus in Kannapolis, NC, so I don't have to put up with as much of the main campus politics.
Life has been an interesting journey for me, and I have been blessed to have been married to Doreen for 43 years and that we have shared so many experiences together. We have two daughters (Katrina and Marie) and four grandchildren (Katalina, Matias , Silas, and Annabelle). Katrina and her husband live in Albuquerque with her two children and Marie and her husband Lee live in Concord NC just a few miles from us with their son and brand new daughter (born Oct 27th, 2015*). As Doreen and I come from two different cultures, it has made us appreciate our own roots and cultures more and also allowed us to share and appreciate the others' culture greatly. We are back and forth between NC and NM frequently. We are both very traditional and true to the cultural and religious values of our parents and grandparents.
With my research I have had the opportunity to travel all over, and have been fortunate to have had long term projects in South Africa (19 years), Italy (4 years), and all over the western USA.

*Our daughter Marie gave birth to our fourth grandchild, second here in North Carolina: Annabelle Grace Deal. Being the father of two girls myself, I have fallen in love once again, this time with Annabelle. She is our second granddaughter.

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