Once I was an artist. Well...perhaps I still am! What I mean is once I was a painter but haven't defaced a canvas in over thirty years. Sometime before I realized I had little talent or inspiration I obtained my MFA degree from the State University of Iowa where I met and married by wife, Ninfa. My first real job was teaching at the University of Southern Philippines in Cebu City. Later, I spent three year teaching humanities at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City. Returning to the United States in 1964 I became the Registrar at the Detroit Institute of Arts and later at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village from which I retired in 1992.
With my wife, I've returned to the Philippines twice in recent years. What I look forward to doing now is preparing materials to assist small museums in that and other countries with staff education and training in basic museum documentation practices. It would be great to make such materials universally available on the web although access abroad would be limited by local communications situations.
This is our son Robert III who is a physician in Atlanta.
Our daughter Pamela on her folding bike. She's a Physical Therapist with the University of Wisconsin Hospital. (neat person!)
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(much later)