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I have often remarked that the academy is a very small world. If you have been in higher education for any length of time, you will quickly realize that you have connections to people everywhere. Today, I found I had an unexpected connection to someone in higher ed via a book. As the pandemic ended and things were beginning to go back to normal on campus, I happened across a fellow professor here on campus who was cleaning out his office. He was leaving the university and divesting himself of a variety of books he had collected along the way. We struck up a conversation and realized that we shared an interest in history. He gave me a book on the history of Georgia. I have thumbed through it, but only just today realized that he had inherited the book at some point. The original owner had placed his name inside the cover – Guy Bailey. I don’t know Dr. Bailey personally, although we have a few things in common. He completed his Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Tennessee in 1979. I would follow him there by just over a decade, eventually completing my undergraduate and master’s studies at UT in 1992 and 1994 respectively. While I was there, he became Chair of the Department of English at the University of Memphis in 1993. I came to the UofM in 2016 to be Chair of the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research. In between, I went to Texas Tech to complete my Ph.D. He would follow me there, albeit at a very different level! He was President of Texas Tech from 2008-2012. Fate would have it that two guys who have never met but who have been at three of the same institutions would come to have the exact same book. Small world indeed!
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