| [Write-up and
photo from 2000]
College: Penn Degrees:
B.A. English Honors; M.A. Higher Education, Goddard, 1976. Married:
Krail Sibson, 1969; B.A., Denver University, 1968. Children: Reed,
1982.
Occupation: Executive Director, The Philadelphia
Center of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.
Observations on Life and Times
I worked my way through college (Penn, English Honors ) by
teaching and coaching and filling in/substituting at Penn Charter. In seven
years I taught upper- and middle-school art, history, English, philosophy,
physics, religion, drama, gym, and two years of 5th-grade English and
Science, and coached junior football, wrestling, squash, and tennis. I also
taught filmmaking at The Philadelphia Museum of Art on weekends and in
summers. In 1968 my filmmaking education at the Art Museum led to an offer
as Director of Education with the Great Lakes Colleges Association
Philadelphia Center, the nation's first undergraduate, liberal arts,
experiential education program. I was appointed Executive Director in 1973,
and have remained here since. Over the years I've published, lectured and
consulted extensively in experiential education both in the U.S. and the
U.K.
In 1969 I married Krail Sibson, whose father Walter
attended PC (OPC'26), as did her brother Kirk from '54-'56. Krail did her
B.A. in Sociology at Denver University (1968) and her M.S.W. at Temple
University (1974)
I received my M.A. in Higher Education from Goddard
College in 1976.
Our son, Reed, was born in 1982. He will attend Oberlin
College in the fall. |
