Jul 14 2020
Assistant Research Professor Amy Lorek in the classroom.
By the age of 60 Harold Woodruff had been a teacher (elementary school and then high school industrial arts), and, when he “needed to take a break from teaching,” he says, he became a machinist and then a numerical controlling programmer/machine operator. His last job before retirement was coordinator of lending services for students with disabilities at the Penn State Libraries. He had also served in the army and acquired both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He cared for his mother when she had dementia. He retired but that didn’t stop him. He started distance running, a pastime from his younger years. He ran races. And he went back to school.