Lyle Harris – Professor Emeritus

Lyle Harris, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Lyle Harris Updates

Winter 2022 Update

Hello All,
The best thing about retirement is not having a daily stack of papers to mark up, although I really enjoyed talking with you when I innocently wrote “See me, Pls” on your papers, finding it better to talk with you rather than use a red pen. It was a way to get to know more about you than just seeing you in the classroom, and I’ve been rewarded in my several years of retirement by continuing contact with many of you now and then. You as students and I as faculty were just a couple of people doing our jobs.

Betty and I live on forest land in south Whatcom County where the deer loved my garden until I put up a fence. Later I realized it was less work and cheaper just to buy fresh veggies at the market.

Best to all, Lyle
Winter 2021 Update

Some great books I’ve been reading lately include Jack Weatherford’s 2004 “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,” Barack Obama’s current “A Promised Land,” and David McCullough’s “Mornings on Horseback,” about Teddy Roosevelt. It came out in 1981 and was republished in 2001. I prefer histories and the year of publishing is of no concern.
Winter 2019 Update

“I recommend retirement. It’s the time when you finally paint the last piece of trim you put up 15 years ago. Finding matching paint is a great challenge! Something like trying to read a student’s handwriting on a final exam. I think now, after retiring a dozen years ago, about what great students we had at Western. And I was fortunate to work with you.”