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Richard Tebbetts

Faculty

Biography:

I love geography! I collected stamps in my teens: come by office hour if you’d like a stamp/some stamps from my collection. I’ve visited over 50 countries, mostly in the 1980s. I’ve been teaching at BC for about 18 years. I speak English, Spanish, French and some Japanese and Italian. I hope I speak your language! Everyone has a personal Geography. Our family hosted students from Romania, the Philippines, China and Boston. My little hometown Cohasset, Massachusetts was (and is) almost all white ethnically. However, about 50 students of color from Boston got up at 5:30 am everyday to attend Cohasset’s public school in a program called METCO, the largest voluntary busing program in the USA. Our family hosted two METCO students, Jerome Turner, a businessman, and Wayne Carruthers, a Boston firefighter. All of these interactions greatly expanded my personal Geography.