Personal & Family Information
Frank McAndrew

The picture on the left below was taken at the Frank Lloyd Wright "Fallingwater" home in Pennsylvania in the Summer of 2008
The picture on the right below was taken on Mt. Evans in Colorado in the Summer of 2007

 If you are a long-lost relative or acquaintance from my past checking to see if I am still alive, this page will bring you up to date.  However,  I am not deluded enough to think that much of what you find here will be of interest to very many other people.  Anyway, here it is.  If you arrived at this page by way of my faculty profile page, you already know that I am a psychology professor at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where I live in a house that is more than 100 years old.  I was born in Augsburg, Germany because my father was stationed there with the U.S. Army. We moved back to the States when I was about 6 months old, and I grew up in the anthracite coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, not far from the Pocono Mountains.  I have two brothers and two sisters who still live in Pennsylvania, as do my parents. Counting kindergarten and college, I survived 17 years of Catholic education, and my only noteworthy achievement during my school days was being a two-time placewinner in my high school state wrestling tournament. Except for that, I mostly just hung around a lot.  I attended King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where I was on the wrestling team and also hammed it up as a member of an amateur theatre group called The Fourth Floor Players.  After King's, I went to graduate school and received a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Maine, with a specialty in social psychology.  To this day, Maine is probably still my favorite state.   In my spare time, I help coach the wrestling team at Knox and I do some bass fishing in the summer when I have the chance.  I also go running every morning with my good friends Larry Welch and John Dooley.  I used to coach youth sports (soccer & softball) and play a lot of racquetball and softball, but I seem to have gotten too old or at least too busy to do these things very often anymore.  Like most people, my life outside of work is pretty mundane and is largely consumed by the day-to-day chores of modern life.  My wife, Maryjo, is a graduate of College Misericordia and she was a long-time kindergarten teacher in the Galesburg Public Schools, which makes her well-equipped for living with me.  Mary retired early from teaching and she is currently working as an archivist in the Seymour Library at Knox College; she also works part-time at a pharmacy in Galesburg.  We have two children.  My son Tim graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio; he also spent a semester at the National University of Ireland's University College in Cork.  After college, Tim earned a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the University of California at Riverside and is finishing a master's degree in International Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.  He currently works as an analyst at an unspecified government agency doing things that he cannot tell me about.  My daughter Maura graduated from Macalester College in Minnesota, and she also studied in Ireland at the University College in Dublin.  Maura sings and plays the guitar, and she used to be in a band.  To hear some of Maura's Songs, click on the link.  After working in New York City for a year after college, she moved to Pittsburgh where she is now a graduate student in English & Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.  She works as a writing tutor for the athletes at Pitt, and she also teaches an occasional SAT Prep course for the Princeton Review.  We have a dog named Murphy, and for over 15 years I had a good friend named Spooky. My goal in life is to become the kind of person that my dogs thought I already was.
                     Click on the images located here to see some relatively recent snapshots of my life;
    
The elephant to see pictures of an elephant attack I survived



The champagne bottle to see Mary and I taking the plunge on our 25th wedding anniversary (and also to see what we looked like on our wedding day in 1978) 



The wrestlers to see recent pictures of the Knox College wrestling team


                                 The Celtic Cross to see pictures of my family amidst the spectacular scenery that Ireland has to offer


The picture of Stephen Colbert to see me hanging out with Stephen Colbert



    

                                                                                             The baseball bat to see "Flunk Day" Softball


  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to see the REAL 4 Horsemen






 For those of you who might be misled by the pictures on this page into thinking that my life is always interesting and fun, click on the Knox College logo below for proof that even events like homecoming mean hard work for professors.
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