Memory Page-Paul Bogaard

What fills my Hours; Since retirement, I still do some research and writing, serious gardening, work in my shop and I’ve taken up blacksmithing at the forge we established at our carriage factory museum. I remain active on the boards of the Sackville Waterfowl Park, the Tantramar Heritage Trust, the Cape Jourimain Nature Centre, each of which I helped found, and also the Fundy Biosphere Reserve for which I worked to receive UNESCO recognition. And our church of many years. My wife and I love to travel…
Family/Children; I met my wife, Mary, at graduate school and we’ve been delightfully married for 52 years. We have two daughters: after college, Anna studied acting in NYC, spent some years in theatre, moved to Santa Fe and now lives in Albuquerque. She teaches there, language arts and drama, her husband is a Medical Field Investigator and they have one daughter. Our second daughter went on to complete MA & PhD and with her Welsh husband teaches archaeology at Oxford, when they are not actively researching in the middle east. They, too, have provided us a granddaughter… so we alternate between visiting New Mexico and England. If they’re going to move away, at least they’ve located in interesting places!
After Central; I was immediately caught between my draft board and accepting a National Defense Education Fellowship to grad school at Emory University. Atlanta was an exciting place in the late 60’s, and I was allowed to finish an MA & PhD, just in time to turn 26 when Congress decided anyone 26 was no longer eligible, and I was free to look for a position. (Not that there were many in 1970!) Ended up at a small university in the Maritimes of Canada, where for 40 years I taught history and philosophy of science, and environmental philosophy. It was a full and busy career, including a year at Cambridge and a year at Chicago, and I retired holding the Massey Chair in Philosophy at Mount Allison University (Canada’s top ranked small university).We’ve loved it, here, at the tip of the Bay of Fundy, and decided to stay. I have taught some since, occasional public presentations, more books and articles published, and offered courses through our regional Seniors College. Retirement’s been good… we can now decide on our own schedule.
Recent Awards; Plenty of recognition over the years, including a Rotary-Paul Harris Medal and a Senate of Canada Medal.
Phi Delta Tau Memories: As others have said, I think the diversity of “brothers” is what mattered most. I was in danger of being too caught up in my studies, especially since I was a Pella boy and could only afford to live at home, so interacting with Phi Delts in and out of the house made a lasting impression. Speaking of the house, I recall being part of meetings with Jim Graham (then Dean & Provost) to gain use of the house, and helping to rework the constitution (somber work)… but, then, I also recall the large paddle that shows in group photos started out as a bottle on the other side (Falstaff days?), homecoming creations (many shown in yearbooks), Red Rock tours (my home turf, after all), keg parties at out of the way places, (hazing I struggle to forget), and even the farms at which Cobb arranged for us to take out pigeons. It was a good time to make good friends.