A New Orleans native, Ron Borne is a medicinal chemist by experience, and an amateur writer by avocation. He served Ole Miss and the School of Pharmacy as a teacher, researcher and administrator for more than 40 years and is now “retired” and living in his center of the universe. Email him at rfborne@yahoo.com.
It has been tough for me to decide what I miss most, career-wise, since I retired after a career of nearly 40 years at Ole Miss. Is it the classes I taught that gave me an opportunity to teach and challenge and provide new information to the bright Pharmacy students, or the thrill of research [...]
A New Orleans native, Ron Borne is a medicinal chemist by experience, and an amateur writer by avocation. He served Ole Miss and the School of Pharmacy as a teacher, researcher and administrator for more than 40 years and is now “retired” and living in his center of the universe. Email him at rfborne@yahoo.com. Scotland is my..
With the first pitch of the Ole Miss baseball season, I was reminded of an interview I taped more than 20 years ago with one of Oxford’s most avid baseball and sports fans, and characters, Leroy Rooker. We were in Rick Gambino’s Restaurant in Point Clear, Alabama, while we were on a golfing trip to [...]
Go ahead and call me old-fashioned, but I thought that Beyonce’s performance at the Inauguration of President Obama was horrible and disrespectful. I am not talking about the controversy surrounding her supposed lip synching –– perhaps all activities associated with inaugurations should be lip synched to avoid gaffes such as the..
If you have ever been to New Orleans, you probably have been to The Napoleon House –– an oasis in the middle of the chaos comprising the French Quarter. The building has an atmosphere conducive to relaxing, good times. It is certainly not the kind of place that attracted me and my crowd while I [...]
It is easy for even an optimist, such as myself, to become discouraged about the direction American society is taking. Water does, after all, run downhill. Relationships between individuals and within families seem to be dwindling. This is no “Chicken Little” cry –– one only has to watch local and national newscasts to..
A New Orleans native, Ron Borne is a medicinal chemist by experience, and an amateur writer by avocation. He served Ole Miss and the School of Pharmacy as a teacher, researcher and administrator for more than 40 years and is now “retired” and living in his center of the universe. Email him at rborne@olemiss.edu [...]
By Ron Borne Five minutes after the most recent presidential debate several networks reported the results of their instant polls of a previously selected group of eligible voters. I will leave the accuracy and significance of these polls to my friends in political science, but I am reminded of how the whole business of polling [...]
A New Orleans native, Ron Borne is a medicinal chemist by experience, and an amateur writer by avocation. He served Ole Miss and the School of Pharmacy as a teacher, researcher and administrator for more than 40 years and is now “retired” and living in his center of the universe. Email him at rbourne@olemiss.edu By [...]
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