By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW|Jul 19, 2019
After 52 years at 大象传媒 Western, Dr. Thomas Rachow of the university鈥檚 biology department is retiring.
Growing up in Streator, Illinois, Rachow was the first in his family to graduate from college. He had no idea just how long he鈥檇 spend on a college campus over the course of his life.
And since then, he鈥檚 seen the campus change from having three buildings and a double-wide student center, to the university that it is today.
鈥淚 can remember how much the technology has changed. When I got here, we had a chalkboard and one overhead projector that you had to arrange to have in your class in case someone else wanted to use it,鈥� he said, laughing. 鈥淏ut at this point, I think I鈥檝e taught almost everything in our department over the years, except for microbiology.鈥�
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