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Philip Holt

High school was great for me intellectually and rougher than average socially. I kept myself going partly by reading and talking with friends about Big Stuff. Being bookish, geekish, and pretty intense, I went to St. John's College in Annapolis for four years of reading and discussing the great books. It was one of the best things that happened to me: all that discussion, and it taught me to think for myself.

I was drawn to the Greeks, so after graduating from St. John's, I started graduate school in Classics, first at Texas and then at Stanford (PhD 1976). I was then thrown into the maw of the great job crunch, when there were a lot more classicists then there were jobs for them. I held various temporary jobs, got booted once, and was out of teaching for four years. I finally caught on at the University of Wyoming, which hired me in 1987, and I've been there ever since. I was the sole classicist there for the first fifteen years, but we managed to get a second hire.

I've become a good teacher: beginning Latin enrollments doubled, and I put in courses on Classical Civilization (i.e., classical literature and history for people who don't know Greek and Latin) which draw well. We have minors in both Classical Civ. and Latin. I've also gotten teaching awards from the University and nationally, and I'm proud of that.

Personal: married once, divorced once, two long-term relationships since, currently unattached.

Highlights and accomplishments:

1. Learning Greek: it's quite a challenge, and a great language.

2. Job well done (see above).

3. Raising my only child, a daughter, mostly as a single parent. She's picked up a lot of my virtues and avoided a lot of my faults, so I guess it worked out pretty well. I'm proud of her.

4. Converting to Christianity while in college. It's really helped.

If I had to do it over again, I would . . .

1. Be more of a careerist. Not the back-stabbing, walk-over-your-own-grandmother kind, but I'd take more thought for my career, as distinguished from being good at my job.

2. Gotten serious about saving and investing earlier (although I'm in a good position for retirement anyway).

3. Be less shy around women.

4. Stand up for myself, and others, more.

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