Jim Reynolds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jim Reynolds is an eighty-nine-year-old man who was born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia. He graduated from high school in 1955 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. A year later, Jim married his high school sweetheart, Ruth Downard. Their strong marriage lasted sixty-three years until Ruth died in 2019, and together they raised two great sons, Jimmie Jay and Jerry Ray.

After serving four years in the U.S. Navy as an Aviation Electronics Technician, Jim spent the next twenty years working for IBM—first as a Field Engineer in North Dakota, then in Washington, D.C. Finally, he transferred to the IBM Field Engineering Education Center in Washington, D.C., where he served as a course instructor, course developer, and later as a Senior Instructor before leaving IBM in 1983

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Jim then spent twenty years as a counselor at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) in Alexandria, Virginia. He focused on student academic advisement, career counseling, and classroom and online courses about “Learning to Learn” and learning styles. Jim retired from NVCC in 2004.

As an advocate of lifelong learning, Jim earned four college degrees while working full-time, culminating in an Ed.D. in Student Personnel Services from Virginia Tech at age fifty‑two.

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Jim now resides in a retirement community in Maryland. He continues to write, do artwork, and explore the meaning of life.