A View From the Provinces

Abstract

I have had one previous experience in doing an autobiography. That essay, “Wayne’s World, Growing Up in Cleveland Ohio,” was published in 1996.1 It detailed my family background (third generation Polish American), my early religion (Roman Catholic), and an education through the bachelor’s degree spent in public schools and Catholic schools in and around Cleveland, Ohio. I graduated from John Carroll University in suburban Cleveland, one of many Jesuit institutions in big cities in several states, in 1963. I was a commuter student, making for a relatively narrow undergraduate experience; but I was a football player, offering some glimpse of a campus life, though not much.