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Frank McAndrew
The pictures below were taken in Istanbul & Copenhagen in June, 2009
Frank McAndrew

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 does my mother.

From kindergarten through 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.  During my college summers I worked as a bank teller, and during the school year I worked for the King's psychology department where I took care of the lab rats and did whatever else I was told to do. 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.  Now that my kids have grown up, it is hard to say exactly what I do with my leisure time.  I travel a lot; I read a lot; I go running every morning with my good friends Larry Welch and John Dooley.  During the winter I help coach the wrestling team at Knox, and in the summer I play softball and do some bass fishing when I have the chance.  Like most people, my life outside of work is pretty mundane and is largely consumed by the day-to-day chores of modern life.  

In 1978 I married Maryjo McCarthy in Mountaintop, PA, and we honeymooned in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before heading back to Maine.  My lovely wife 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 now works as an archivist in the Seymour Library at Knox College.  We have two children. I will not bore you with everything they did before college; I will simply say that they were great kids who made our lives as parents pretty easy.

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. Tim spent one of his college summers in Madison (Wisconsin) taking classes at the University of Wisconsin and working for that state's Department of Natural Resources.  After college, Tim earned a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the University of California at Riverside and a master's degree in International Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.  He currently works as an intelligence analyst at an unspecified government agency doing things that he cannot tell me about. Tim is engaged to be married to Rose Dunphy on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia in March of 2010.  Rose is an occupational therapist by trade (Master's degree from Wash U) and, coincidentally, she also graduated from Knox College with a degree in biochemistry.  

My daughter Maura is a singer-songwriter-guitarist who graduated from Macalester College in Minnesota, and she also studied in Ireland at the University College in Dublin.  After working in New York City at Conde-Nast Publications for a year after college, she moved to Pittsburgh and completed a master's degree in English & Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.  Maura is now the coordinator of the writing center in the athletic department at Pitt.  Maura lives with Robert Bailey, a Ph.D. student in art history.  Robert and Maura first met on her 21st birthday in Ireland, and they became a couple about a year or so later.  

Finally, we have a gigantic 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 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 all over again on our 25th wedding anniversary (and also to see what we looked like on our wedding day) 


The wrestlers to see assorted pictures from my years of coaching the Knox College wrestling team

                                                       

                                                            The girls in the foam pit to see "Flunk Day" Softball & other "Flunk Day" Rituals  


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

                                                                                                                                  


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 and traveling to professional conferences mean hard work for professors.
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