Interview with Dr. Medwid

1. Dr. Medwid does not presently have a service experience she is partaking in but a few years ago she worked as a literacy volunteer. She worked with immigrants who could not read or write in English and helped them to learn how. She worked with an elderly couple from Russia for a few years.

2. Her decision to become a faculty member at Siena College happened by pure luck. She moved away from this area for a while and opened a business selling classics books. She found that she did not enjoy this work so she and her husband closed the shop and moved back to the Albany area. She ran into an old teacher of hers from when she had been a student at Suny Albany. He was presently the chairman of classics at Siena, which at this time classics was an independent study. He offered her the job here and she accepted.

3. Originally Dr. Medwid was a sociology major. In her 2nd year she took a philosophy course and fell in love with Plato. She went to a school in Greece over the summer and was surrounded by ancient archeology and art. She was captivated by the ancient ruins and went on to grad school to study the ancient Mediterranean history.