Dr. Andrew J. Smith

Gender: Male

Quote: Friends and strangers can do you dirty but to really get screwed it takes a relative.

Age: 53

City: Thiells, NY

State: NEW YORK

Occupation: Retired, professor, lecturer

Hobbies: politics and government, photography, hiking, fishing, target shooting, horseback riding, public speaking, history, archaeology, natural science, landscape sketching and painting

Fav. Music: oldies (Elvis, Beatles, 50s, 60s, early 70s music), classic country (Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline), music of 30s and 40s, classical (Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, chopin, Liszt, Johann Strauss), very elclectic except for this gop that passes for music today.

Fav. Movies: Casablanca (head an shoulders above the rest), Caine Mutiny, Big Sleep, Maltese Falcon I guess you can tell I like Bogey), Harvey, the Man From Laramie, Strategic Air Command (I like Jimmy Stewart too), El Dorado, True Grit, Rio Lobo (and the Duke), Mister Roberts, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse, Arsenic and Old Lace (Can't forget Cary Grant and Hank Fonda), sci fi classics like Forbidden Planet (now there's a thinking man's movie), the Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, It the Terror From Beyond Space (from which the Aliens series was stolen), Them, and many more.

Fav. Books: the Devil's Guard (Only book I ever finished in one sitting), Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, America BC, American Dawn, Columbus Was Lsst

Fav. TV shows: Andy Griffith, Green Acres, Leave it to Beaver, Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, Nova,

Bio: Andrew J. Smith Ph.D. in archqeology, a D.Sc. in botnay and mycology and also a Th.D. in theology. He olds a M.S. in environmental science, and M.A. in history, a B.S. in earth and life sciences and a B.A. in integrated social sciences. He has studied German at Berlitz and uses it often. The Dr. is a professor of history at Mount St,. Mary College, and a professor of history and science at SUNY Empire State College, and he has also taught these subjects at Rockland Community College. He has been and adult education instructor at the North Rockland Adult Education Institute since 1989 in history, nature studies and conducts field research exercises with them too. For a decade he has been a home instructor in sociel studies and all sciences at the Mahwah, NJ board of edcuation. Among his achievements are a guest naturalist on CBS Today, a guest historian on CSPAN's De Toqueville in America Tour, he has been a frequent guest on public access TV for over two decades. Dr. Smith has been published many times with over 100 articles to his credit in history, botany, zoology, earth science, and technical subjects. He once co-authored a paper which was presented before the National Food Chemists annual meeting in Boston, Massachussetts in 1998 (the subject was about the chemical analysis of an edible plant where theretofore had never been studied). He was the field and landscape archaeologist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and interagency liaison between the USACE and the N.Y.S. Department of Parks, and Recreation, and Historic Preservation for the advanced team site survey of an abandoned military munitions depot. Dr. Smith served on Congressman Benjamin Gilman's (NYS 20th Congressional District)advisory committees on the subjects of science and technology, the environment, labor, and veteran's affairs. Dr. Smith is an inductee in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who In Emerging Leaders, a previous member of Mensa, he maintains memberships in the Institute for Field Archaeologists, North American Mycological Society, American Botanical Association, Ntional Forestry Association and others. He is founder of the Center For the Study of Natural and Historical Anomalies, the Rural Culture Society, National Public Employee Information Bureau, and the Society of Contrarian Speakers and Writers.

Fav. website: http://www.xomba.com