A Time To Keep: A Memoir

About the Book

This memoir describes what it was like growing up as the youngest member of a large, boisterous Irish-American family in Massachusetts during the 1940s and 1950s. The author also tells about his experiences as a young naval officer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, his work in international communicable disease control as a Commissioned Officer of the U.S. Public Health Service, and later teaching and research involvement at several universities in the development and application of computer-based individualized instruction, and emerging K-12 classroom technologies.

About the Author

Rick O’Connor grew up the last of eight children of a boisterous, gregarious Irish-American family in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Upon graduating from Boston College, Rick served three years as a naval officer, obtained a Master of Science degree in Public Health, and became a Commissioned Officer with the U.S. Public Health Service where he worked in international communicable disease control, specializing in developing computer-based training programs in tropical medicine. Following this twenty-one year career, Rick spent the next twenty years in university-based Teacher Education, conducting cutting-edge research in classroom applications of emerging digital technologies.