Moments in Time: A Memoir

About the Book

Upon their retirement, the author and his wife purchased a home in Florida where they live in the winters as well as in Erie Village (a suburb of Syracuse) in which they spent their summers before selling their town house. They joined the Sugar Mill Country Club in New Smyrna Beach, Florida after becoming Florida residents. They have watched the transitions of life in which all families participate with the death of their parents, the marriage of their sons, the birth of their grandchildren and making gradual accommodations to old age and their own eventual demise. While both the author and his wife enjoy playing golf, Scrabble, cards and other recreational activities, he has spent several years giving speeches, writings articles, novels, and attempting to demonstrate the transitions through which everyone journeys during the course of their lifetime.

About the Author

Donald F. Megnin, son of immigrants from Germany, grew up on a farm near Chittenango, New York. He graduated from Fayetteville High School, Syracuse University, where he received his A.B., M.A., and Ph. D. and Boston University with an S.T.B. He worked on the family for several years before being given a scholarship by a Syracuse Industrialist to study at Syracuse University. He then represented Syracuse University as Lecture at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand for two years. He then went on to study theology at Boston University. While serving as a United Methodist Minister in Syracuse, New York, he began his graduate studies in international politics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs part time. After completing his doctorate in political science, he taught at Slippery Rock University (one of fourteen state-owned universities of Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor emeritus of international politics from Slippery Rock University and divides his time between New Smyrna Beach, Florida where he and his wife reside, and Syracuse, New York where they spend their summers.