Alan D. Rose, M.A.

            

Alan D. Rose, M.A.

Assistant Professor of English. 1977.

Educational Background:

  • M.A., California State University, Chico
  • B.A., California State University, Chico


Profile:

I met with President Mark Lee Friday, February 4, 1977, joined the faculty and began teaching the following Tuesday, February 8, at the Simpson College campus in San Francisco, living in the men's dorm during the week for the first year-and-a-half, and going home to be with my wife, Judy, and two small daughters, Julie and Sally, on the weekends. I felt rescued and surrounded by love on the old campus, but was sure that the honeymoon feeling would fade away. It never did. After thirty-one years of teaching at what is now Simpson University, I still feel surrounded by love. My daughters have grown up and graduated from Simpson (1993). Sally and her husband, Joel, have just finished their furlough year serving as Overseas Workers in Residence here in Redding. Judy taught fifth grade at the Christian Academy in Pacifica and clerked in the Christian Bookstore in Redding until it closed last summer.

My classes currently include Principles of College Writing II, complete with the study of and at trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see the Shakespearean play under production that semester; Seminar in English Grammar, the theory and practice of sentence diagramming; Children's Literature, including your favorite fairy tales and what Bruno Bettelheim has to say about them; and Interpretive Reading, with all the expression and excitement that one rightly owes to both the author of the piece and to the audience. My classes tend to be challenging in a light-hearted sort of way.

Arranging adventures centers on coordinating discount tickets for theatrical productions and sometimes seating a certain "he" in close proximity to a certain "her" with or without either ones particular awareness. Two or three such generated couples are now happily married. I also arrange to have and even more beautiful Christmas tree in the library just after Thanksgiving each November.


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