Anthony A. Walsh, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology |
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Dr. Walsh and his
wife Doris on the trail at about the 6500 foot elevation on Mount Rainier,
Washington State, July 6, 2001. |
orn in
Worcester, Massachusetts, Dr. Walsh received his primary and secondary
education in the neighboring town of Shrewsbury. He then attended American International College in Springfield,
MA where he obtained his BA in psychology. After a semester traveling in the
Southwest and Mexico, he entered the graduate school at Springfield College across town where he
subsequently graduated with both MS and a CAGS degrees in clinical psychology.
Upon graduation, he accepted an appointment on the faculty of Mitchell College in New London,CT where he
also was Acting Dean of Students for a brief period. His next appointment was to
the faculty of the University of New Hampshire
where he taught for two years before entering the Psychology Doctoral Program
there, ultimately earning his Ph.D. His dissertation, in the Salve library,
focused on a topic in the history of psychology. Professor Walsh taught at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA for
several years before joining the Salve faculty.
Dr. Walsh's research interests during his early career years focused on the history of behavioral sciences. Within that area he has published many scholarly journal articles--and edited two books--dealing with the history of phrenology as well as others dealing with different aspects of the history of psychology and psychiatry, most of which can be found in the Salve Regina library ( view his bibliography here). As a member of the university's "Technological Self-Study Team" in 1984, moreover, Dr. Walsh became immersed in the computerization of our campus. He has retained his interest in computers and technology applied to education to this day. His work over the past several years (Fall, 1995-present) has focused on developing his web site in support of his teaching and personal interests, the web site for the department of psychology, and the web site for Salve Regina University(July, 1996 through August, 1999[now managed by a new webmaster]) & others.
The summer of 2001 found them traveling in Washington State and relaxing on Cape Cod. In Washington State their trip took them to the exciting city of Seattle where they encountered the amazing geoduck clam(--pronounced "gooeyduck"--seen here, and here and with Dr. Walsh here), and then a grand road trip over 1300 miles around the Olympic Penninsula including the the San Juan Islands, particularly Orcas Island, hiking in Olympic National Park and several Indian reservations including the Makah Nation at the Northwestern-most point in the continental U.S.(where they hiked to that point known geographically as Cape Flattery), the Hoh Rain Forest, and Mount Rainer.
Two long trips were taken during the summer of 2002. One involved a two week+ tour of the Eastern Seaboard from Savannah, GA to Virginia Beach, VA and included stops at Tybee Island, GA, Hilton Head, Charleston, Fort Sumter & Myrtle Beach, SC, Wrightsville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Ocracoke Island, Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras National Seashores, as well as Nags Head and Kitty Hawk. The second trip was a 1200 mile loop to the Adirondacks and back with stops in Stowe, VT, Lake Placid, and Upper Saranac Lake where we stayed at a quintessential Adirondack Camp, the Wawbeek. In this photo we are at the 4867 feet above sea level summit of Whiteface Mountain, sight of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, with Lake Placid in the background.
 | For spring break(and/or Easter) Dr. Walsh usually heads for Florida, usually Fort Lauderdale. He and his wife, Doris, also regularly spend a summer week or more on the outer Cape, some time in Martha's Vineyard, and time on the coast of Maine.. |
| One of the highlights of Dr. Walsh's July(2003) Alaska trip was a ski plane excursion up and around Mt. McKinley(also known as Denali, the highest mountain in North America at 20,320 feet above sea level) and its surrounding lesser peaks with his wife, Doris. As part of that trip, their "bush pilot," Kurt from Talkeetna Air Taxi, landed on the northeast fork of the Kahiltna Glacier which serves as a base camp for all attempts to summit this difficult mountain. The glacier has a central air strip that is very narrow and can only be used if the snow conditions are exact, not too hard(as in early morning) and not too soft(mid afternoon). On either side of this strip are multiple dangerous crevasses which can reach depths of 600 feet deep or more. On this day, National Geographic was filming--as they had been for a month to that date--for a television special on the mountain and its dangers to air in early October. This air excursion began and ended in the rustic "Northern Exposure"-type town of Talkeetna, Alaska, a quintessential small Alaska "frontier town" with enormous charm. |
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July, 2004 In the summer of 2004 Doris & I traveled to Sedona and Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico to hike the trails of beautiful Sedona and the Sonora Desert and to visit Old Santa Fe. Included in this year's trip was a hot air balloon with Northern Lights Balloon Expeditions.
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Current Time in the British Virgin Islands
For Christmas & New Year's 2006~2007 (as they have since 1990) they returned to their favorite British Virgin Island, Tortola, where they have been vacationing annually since first visiting there on a cruise in the late 1980s. There they spend their time limin'1 with the rest of the local folks on pristine Long Bay on the North shore, West end of the island. View a few photos of this gorgeous mile-long beach by aaw here. If you use Internet Explorer®, you can view some other pictures by aaw from the BVI in PowerPoint format here and/or click on several samples in the images below.
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| The files below are 3 Minute Mini WMV Movie Views of Long Bay, Tortola, BVI | Click to Play | ||
| Long Bay in the Morning~West to East | Long Bay at Sunset~West to East | View from our Long Bay Deck Looking East |
One of the more famous spots in the BVI, and in fact throughout the Caribbean, is the "BOMBA Shack" on Cappoon's Bay, just over the hill from Long Bay where we stay. There's good surfing in front of the shack and several surfing competitions take place there throughout the year(read more about the surfing in the BVI here). The most famous events at the "BOMBA Shack" are Bomba's full moon parties which he holds, as their name implies, whenever there is a full moon. The party is an all night affair attracting hundreds of vacationers and others from all over the area who gather in, on, and around the shack and spill into the street on on this little bay on Tortola's North Shore. December 26, 2004 had a full moon and, of course, the party. Bomba is a native Tortolan and his "shack" is a rag tag assemblage of driftwood held together nails, bailing wire, string, glue, and anything else that will keep it from blowing out to sea. Click on the center image below for a panoramic image of this famous Caribbean night spot and on either Bomba for a larger view of the man himself.
The covers of the three issues of a local British Virgin Islands events guide published during the 2004 "Old Year's Night"(New Year's Eve) season may be viewed here, here, and here.
| Professor & Mrs. Walsh(arrow) on a jet boat in the middle of the Class V rapids on the Niagara River south of Niagara-by-the-Lake, Ontario Canada, July, 2005. Click image for a larger view. |
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| Christmas and New Year's 2005 - 2006 was spent "at the end of the road" literally(or at the beginning from Key West's perspective), in Key West, Florida, the southern most city in the continental United States--90 miles from Cuba. U.S. Route 1 begins here, at the corner of Whitehead and Fleming Streets, and winds its way up the East Coast all the way to Fort Kent, Maine on the Canadian border. Key West's versions of New York City's dropping of an illuminated crystal ball at midnight New year's Eve take several forms. At midnight above one famous night spot, Sloppy Joes Bar for example, a giant conch shell(pronounced KONK shell) descends at midnight(locals refer to themselves as residents of the "Conch Republic"). 40,000 people attended the 2005 celebration filling Key West's 1 mile long Duval Street--their "Main Street"--from end-to-end, . | ||
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| Coming soon ~ more photos from Dr. Walsh's Canadian Rockies and British Columbia grizzly & black bear photo tracking trip to the remote outpost of Knight Inlet, June - July, 2006. |
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