Everett Jenkins Birthday Blog

  88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Alphabetical Index 2022 9/11 Remembrance Day - A00067 2022 Jenkins Family Update - A00442 2023 Jenkins Family Update - A00441 2024 Jenkins Family Update - A00370 2025 Additions to the Memorial List - A00402 2025 Jenkins Family Update - A00444 A Day at the Beach with God - A00229 A Day with Bernadette, A Few Moments with Moses the Ethiopian - A00063 A Day with Bernadette ... and the Lady - A00144 A Full Card Table of Black Economists - A00163 A Happy Fourth of July Dancing Under the Stars - A00167 A Meditation on John Coltrane - A00197 A Most Memorable Date - A00276 A Most Profound Thich Nhat Hanh Memorial  A00113 A Musical Meditation on Rumi A00180 A Poker Game in Heaven - A00155 A Return to Allensworth: From a Field of Weeds to a Field of Dreams - A00149 A Return to Disneyland, A Return to Tomorrowland - A00218 A Return to Montserrat and a "Miraculous" Introduction to the Black Madonna - A00145 A Si...

  Professor Romer had a stellar academic career, one befitting of the son of a great scholar.  He was born in Chicago in 1931where his father Alfred Romer (Amherst College Class of 1917) was a professor in the geology and paleontology department at the University of Chicago.  His father became a professor of biology at Harvard in 1934 which facilitated Robert's attendance at Philips Exeter Academy.  Upon graduation from Philips Exeter, Robert followed in his father's footsteps by attending Amherst College.  Robert would be the second Romer to attend Amherst.  He was followed by James, Class of 1960; Henry (Hank), Class of 1964; and Keith, Class of 1997. At Amherst, Robert majored in physics, He was on the crew team and he was involved with something called the News Bureau.  He joined Phi Alpha Psi fraternity where one of his frat brothers was Thomas Woodrow Gibbs, Amherst College Class of 1951.  I invite you to read about Reverend Gibbs and to rea...