A blog devoted to the actors and public policy issues involved in the 1998 District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, an employment discrimination case.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Penn State: Joel N. Myers, Meteorologist
Joel N. Myers, Ph.D. is a professor of meteorology at The Pennsylvania State University, where I earned a B.A. in journalism in May 1975. Joel Myers is the founder and president of Accu-Weather.
I took an introductory course in meteorology taught by Dr. Myers in the fall of 1973. I remember the first day of class Dr. Myers said: "I know you all signed up for this course because you thought it would be an easy A. Well, I'm not going to disappoint you." I got an A, but I worked for it. I've always had an interest in weather. If I hadn't become a professional paranoid schizophrenic, I might have become a meteorologist. As a schizophrenic I have delusions about the present; as a meteorologist I would have had to have delusions about the future. Professional schizophrenia and meteorology are not all that unrelated, after all.
Dr. Myers' father, Herb Myers, was a friend of my uncle, Lewis Freedman (who was the grandfather of Bruce P. Lapenson).
Our friends must have talked to Joel Myers.
I wonder if Joel Myers knows Hurricane Schwartz, a Philadelphia meteorologist. Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz, like Dr. Myers and I, graduated from The Central High School of Philadelphia and Penn State.
Incidentally, I wrote the Wikipedia article about Bruce Lapenson.
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