JOHN ROSE

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Arts Degree, Mathematics, U. C. Santa Barbara
• Bachelor of Arts Degree, English Literature, U. C. Santa Barbara 

PROFESSIONAL

• Senior Staff Engineer (on Java virtual machine software) at Sun Microsystems
• Founding member and emeritus of board of Clash Debate Club, clashdebate.org
• Founding board member of Live Oak Academy
• Has successfully taught western civilization, literature (various), science (various), Euclid's geometry, logic, memory training, and amateur radio, at high school and junior high levels  

MINISTRIES/ACTIVITIES

• Elder (2001-2007) at Saratoga Federated Church, saratogafederated.com

      PERSONAL

• Married (since 1982) to Annie Rose
• Home schooling father of 8, since 1990, with three children in university
• Avid reader and learner; admires Athanasius, Boethius, Chrysostom, Dante, Euclid, Feynman,  G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, Kreeft, Lewis (both C.S. & Bernard), Malory, Neuhaus (R.J.), Orwell, Pascal, ‘Quinas (sorry, Thomas), Reardon (P.H.), Sayers, T.S. Eliot, and (well) the seven unities (Eph. 4), the seven virtues, the five wounds of Christ, the three excellent mathematicians, the many names of YHWH, and the ten axioms of ZFC set theory.