Immediately upon graduation from Florida State University, I began teaching political science and history at then-St. Petersburg Junior College. After teaching for 17 years, I was appointed program director for the Social and Behavioral Sciences on the Clearwater Campus. Over the years until I retired, I was given additional administrative responsibilities in the  Humanities and Fine Arts, Education, Architecture and Building Arts, Graphic Design Technology, the Interpreter Training Program and the Women on the Way Challenge Center. Even while administering these programs, I continued to teach American National Government to students each semester. After retirement, I have taught political science and American History classes at the Seminole, Tarpon Springs, Midtown, St. Petersburg Gibbs and Clearwater Campuses. I love teaching and I have never lost interest in my academic disciplines of history and political science. I do recognize that, for the most part, I am not teaching majors in my classes but citizens who will have the opportunity to participlate in the American political process. Philosophically, It is important to me that students come to appreciate our very special history as a nation and our political system with all of its genius and flaws, and, most of all, that democracy will survive to be passed on to the next generation only if American citizens are educated and willing to do whatever it takes to protect our freedoms, values and liberties for which thousands of Americans have given  their lives and continue to risk them today in places all around the world.