John Jackman

After graduation I attended Wake Forest University, gaining a BA in Psychology...stayed in Winston-Salem and worked for the local public radio station, the local symphony and the North Carolina School of the Arts Film School before moving to Los Angeles to work for the American Film Institute, first as Assistant to the Dean, then as their first Admissions Manager. In 2006 I became the Director of Admissions at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

I remember Miss Dodson's Study Hall with Elisha and Blake Corcoran - we didn't do much studying...I remember Donna Barco and Lucy Cheshire waging war on Thomas Hurrell, and me (representing Switzerland for some reason) moderating the whole thing...I remember working endless hours at the Library with Kathy...I remember racing up and down Collinsville Strip on weekends with Sherri Solomon in that damned orange Pinto, drinking Magnum talls and blaring Chaka Khan (nerds)...I remember Tracy and Ms. Taylor and DIGABUN!...I remember Marsha Cahill and I as news reporters and Thomas Hurrell as a gorilla in the senior play AIRPLANE (I still have the script)...I remember laughing endlessly with Cheryl Carter in Mr. Starr's Physics class...I remember drawing Fred a lot.