Arnold Henderson  
Arnold Clayton Henderson
Married to Natalie Rosenberg for 37 years (since Feb. 1969).
Children: Rachel Gail Henderson, 31, Hayward CA
WORK: First job, Teaching Assistant, U Nebraska (English, 1960-61). University teacher (English, medieval literature, and photography), 1970s. I did my first teaching at Berkeley in the late 1960s while working on degrees, but for full-time teaching I moved to New Jersey in 1970 to teach at a public but 'experimental' college of Rutgers (The State University of NJ). This was Livingston College, so new it was barely half built and trying out new philosophies of education as it went along (which was actually a chief excitement). I also coauthored a book on Chaucer editions, published articles on medieval animal literature, and traveled to a few different countries to give conference talks on literature or photography. Editor (environmental & engineering), 1980s and 90s. Underneath those literary interests, I still liked science and nature (as had been my main focus at LHS) and especially environmental subjects. So from 1980 I switched to work as technical editor with environmental and engineering firms (especially Parsons Brinckerhoff, an international transportation design firm that also did environmental work). I took the change of field seriously enough to serve as president of the NY/NJ chapter of the Society for Technical Communication and to win awards. Editing in the business world had its downsides (certain bosses!), but allowed me to resume my science interests without having to do all the lab and field work, just help the scientists and engineers report the results-the good stuff. I edited reports and books on many a topic I initially knew nothing about: environmental impact, high-speed rail, high-occupancy vehicle lanes, tunnel construction, bridge rehabilitation, etc. Freelance editor, late 1990s. As freelance editor, my most amusing and worthwhile project was as science editor and part-author for the Grolier Library of Environmental Concepts and Issues (a school encyclopedia, 8 vols., 1996). Late teaching, 1990s. Alongside the editing, I still longed for the fun of classroom teaching and found my way back with occasional semesters teaching at New Jersey's Rider University and our local Middlesex County College.
Took early retirement in 1997. I don't work for pay any more, but am fiercely active in environmental volunteerism and in developing open space and natural areas in my home town of Highland Park along the Raritan River opposite New Brunswick.
INTERESTS: Photography. This is a lifelong biggie. I took up serious photography and darkroom work during my 'spare time' in grad school in California in the 60s (UC Berkeley-the lively decade of flower power and war protests). I'm reviving the photo activity: you can see some on the web at www.highlandparkartists.org.
Poetry. Somehow, though I wrote no poetry in high school, I suddenly started a burst half-way through college (subconsciously triggered, I suspect, by the death of my mother, who was a poet herself). I like touches of humor but an ironic bite. I won some student awards but never published, and poetry went to the back burner after grad school.