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Orville Boyd Jenkins
Who Is This Guy Anyway?
I have a great interest in many things, with earned degrees in Philosophy and French, Theology and Media, Linguistics (Ed.D. and Ph.D.), a diploma for French studies in Commerce and professional qualifications in Media Production and Broadcasting.
I was very active and interested in many things all my life. I was involved in music from an early age, in radio broadcasting from age 9, and in school band (saxophone) and church choir. I became the song leader for a small church when I was 13 years old, until age 15.
At that time we moved to another state where I was soon was doing the same at another small church, which also had a choir for me to lead. I was a pastor of a church for the last two years of my high school and then the first year in college, while continuing in music work, both in the church and in radio.
During high school, I also worked with my father in an electronics repair business, and did a couple of other short-term jobs, while maintaining a small cattle herd.
I taught myself to play guitar in
the first year of college and started my first band, and recorded my first
album. I have led bands and played in various music groups since college
years, also composing songs and teaching in music seminars.
I play tenor saxophone, guitar and bass guitar. Bands I have played with covered the styles of blues, rock and roll, jazz, country, folk-rock, contemporary Christian and Southern Gospel. My latest involvement involves two Praise Bands and a blues group called the Silverback Blues Burners.
I have been involved in many interests
and professions, often multiple at any one time.
Cattle ranching and farming
Electronics, radio and TV broadcasting
Administration: Media companies,
Schools, Research Institutes
Cultural Research, worldview training,
cross-cultural communication training
Church
work, including starting churches among the Maasai people and teaching
pastors
Languages -- Linguistics, teaching
phonetics and learning methods
Planning and
leading professional seminars
Publishing,
designing language programs
Computers
– Repairing hardware and software, constructing computers
Contributing
editor for a commercial computer magazine in East Africa
Conducting seminars
and classes in various aspects of computing
Leading a computer
club in Nairobi, where I also wrote and published a newsletter
Web page construction,
Internet Communication
I have also been a visiting professor in several schools, in Communications, Christian History and World Religions and Linguistics, among other topics.
It is amazing that God would allow one person to experience so much! I have a voracious desire for knowledge, even for what may turn out to be irrelevant knowledge.
I like to peruse any possible source of knowledge about God and the world to see if there might be some nugget of insight and excitement there! God is so good at leaving clues of himself everywhere!! The search and the discovery are thrilling!
Can’t get enough monotonous detail? Read a short biographical resume of Dr. Obiwan.
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This article last updated 22 October 2007
*** A Short Biographical Resume Summary Introduction ***
Dr. Obiwan's Computing History
So Many Opportunities in One
Lifetime So Many Languages,
So Little Time
How to Do Research
on the Web OBJ’s Millennium Series
OBJ Educational Background
Check out my interests in the
following web sites I manage.
The
Virtual Research Centre
Obiwan
Kenobi's Science and Science Fiction
Here are two other great places:
The Star Trek Continuum Star Wars
Email: orville@jenkins.nu
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