4-Summer Life for Academic Families

In the summer of 1960 (at the end of his first year of teaching at UW-L), Jack received a research fellowship at the University of Iowa through the National Science Foundation (NSF). Instead of spending our summer frolicking with the Stewarts on Middle Eau Claire Lake, we found ourselves crammed into married student housing on…

It turned out that my relief was short-lived. When the next summer rolled around, Jack accepted a second NSF fellowship, this time at Emory University in Atlanta. Though my memories of Atlanta have faded, I still have a letter I wrote home to my parents that my mom saved and returned to me. In it,…

We have lots of memories from our family road trips to these far-flung destinations—not all of them are good! Cindy suffered from car sickness, which involved frequent stops for her to throw up. We’d let her lie down in the middle seat of the car to settle her stomach, and stuffed Jean and Barb in…