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Adams, Thomas

Paiting of a man

NEA- NH Staff
National Staff Organization
1989

After 39 years of employment with NEA-NH, I retired in 2008. I enrolled in a photography major in an art degree program at the NH Institute of Art. In 2010, I founded a photographic archive for the students, faculty and researchers at the NH Institute. Currently, I am on a team curating an exhibition at the Danforth Art Museum and the founder of the John Brook Archive. https://www.johnbrookarchive.com/ I also am on the board of NH Citizens for Judicial Reform. https://www.ccjrnh.org/

What impact has the HTUP had on your life/career?    When I completed the TUP program, I was exhilarated by the intellectual rigor and the practical learning from finding viable solutions acceptable to labor and management when they are embroiled in conflict.

Also, the camaraderie among the participants – students and faculty – energized me. Perhaps, I thought, this spirit could be created at our union office and affiliates.

Finally, the realization that the HTUP program participants kept the faculty pragmatic and grounded in their students’ reality. That was very satisfying.

Do you have an interesting/funny story of when you attended the program?    My memory of John Dunlop’s insatiable glee of using leading questions that confounded students forcing them to think and not give ” fill in the blank” answers. He was brilliant and a delight.

CONTACT INFORMATION

6 Holt St.,Concord,NH,United States,03301
adamstom@aol.com