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Richard Selcer was born in Fort Worth, the same year Leonard Brothers Department Store installed the city’s first escalator, and Fort Worth dedicated the statue of Will Rogers in front of Will Rogers Coliseum (1950). He grew up soaking up the city’s history by osmosis and has lived long enough now to become part of Fort Worth history. His teaching career has taken him to several foreign countries --- Austria, Bulgaria, Ukraine, South Dakota (!) --- but he always returned to his Fort Worth roots.
He received his higher education at Austin College (Sherman, TX.) and Texas Christian University (Fort Worth), graduating from Austin College with a B.A. in history in 1972 and an M.A. in education in 1973, and from TCU with a Ph.D. in 1980. He has taught at Tarrant County College, Dallas County Community College, Jarvis Christian College (Hawkins, TX.), Cottey College (Nevada, MO.), and City University (Austria, Ukraine, Bulgaria). For 30 years, he split time between teaching in the States and in Eastern Europe. Currently, he teaches for TCU, the Extended Education Dept., and is a substitute teacher at Trinity Valley Prep School.
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