What's Happening in Skip's Life?
Most of the time in the Fall and Spring Skip teaches two courses at
Southern Illinois University:
Consumer
Behavior and Promotional
Concepts. Both courses have CDs now so that students who take them via
distant learning can not only see slide presentations for course material but also hear
Skip
lecture. The CDs are also useful for students who take the courses on
campus but can't seem to make it too class regularly. Skip doesn't care
why it's used so long as the students learn the material.
One of the things Skip
is known for world-wide is his compilation and review of
"psychometric scales." These are the sophisticated measures of what people think, feel,
and do used by researchers in surveys or experiments. Skip recently
published the fifth in a series of books about scales by marketers. More about his work
with scales can be found at his university site (the
Office of Scale Research) and a
personal site still under development (the
Marketing Scales Database) intended to make it even easier for researchers
to find measures they need.
Skip continues to have a strong interest in music. Although he has written and recorded
about 150 songs, he has only produced five
albums that he is willing to
share with others. The first was called One Talent Man
and was finished back in 1991 around the
time Katy was born. He worked on the second album for years and as
the kids grew up and finally finished
it in 1999 (To Be or Not To Be).
Work progressed much faster on his third album, Tree of Life (released
in late 2002). Skip finished his fourth album, For
Hymn, in 2005.
Five Times Blue, his fifth album, was
released in 2009. (Here are the lyrics for the
songs on that album.) If you are curious what his music sounds like, check out these
MP3
clips of some of the songs. BTW, though Skip doesn't pretend to be a
collector of guitars, he is proud of
these models
he's bought since the late 1960s.
Finally, Skip has been expressing his
spiritual beliefs in article form
for years but only occasionally have those papers been available
for others to see. A common theme
in the articles is that despite Skip's strong Christian faith, he
questions if GOD intended for Christianity to become a religion. A few of the articles are available
as well as his new
blog if you are curious to know more about
these issues.
