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Take one retired botany professor, mix in an interest in
pecpSe, add a zest for life and a pinch of adventure, and
out conses tlie vskpc personality of Prof. John Dsndson.
. Vxz &t a C0fc-2 manuscript written on how I got
started ia CyizzJ DzvUson said, wcawng his Vc2as,ren
ia and cut cf trs&ls en route to the LbccLi ilunidpal
Alport. He was taking one of his students ia the
CentennM Education Program to the airport to check
requirements and credits for eaminj a pilot's license.
T fcst sold my Cessna 150 (airplane) last sprins"
he sail, speakis shout his 1 yenr flying career.
Ryirs is just one of Davidson's interests. Eastings
rscgsES. frcm growing bonsai plants to frying fish and
chips ia a downtown restaurant 113 his tine.
To busier now than before I retired," he said wh a
Dzdsoa, 65, retired as UNL botany profesxr last
June, but continues to teach a botany course through the
Centcmiisl Ficgsa. 1 didn't like the idea of completely
cutting off coil from teaching," he said.
: I& tests, hxLais, ls
Daridaoa has developed his own teaching technique,
which fee csSs the Inductive llethod. "
icuVe cerar seen anything like it before," he said,
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his courses. lie said students learn by doing, drawing
conduabns based on their observations and experiments.
"Students who are tired uf being spoon-fed and want
to do some thinking on their own rave about it," he said.
Drrilxja taught several summer school sessasns at the
University of California at Berkeley, where he introduced
his Inductive llethod.
lm the first professor I know of to try this method
with a class," he said. Tve found out quite a few places
the Er-!ish Dept. at UNL eecially-Ime been using this
method."
Last spring, Davidson was named aa outstanding
professor by the NU Foundation.
Dmfaon combines his love for education with his
hctties. IJe w2l teach the art of growing bonsai,
miniature will Japanese trees, through the Communiver
sity prcgram this faX
neaTC and cLs
Several unfits a week he can be found ia
the kitchen of the Greenwich Cafe, 1917 O St mixing up
his era special batter for fish and chips. The native of
Scotland begaa cocking at the ' Greenwich when he
wanted to show friends how "itsT fish and chips tasted.
1 was wondering if there wouti be a market for fish
and chips ia Lincoln,' he sail. Sales have been building
since Davidson began cooking at the cafe four years 2o.
Heck yes, we sail a lot. Ve used to cook five pounds
cf fLh. Ue're up to ICQ pounds a niht now," he said.
At his "prcfessoriil home" in southwest Linccln,
Daviiaon runmaes through a cluttered array of bocks,
papers and the packaged beauty 'products his wife sells.
Fulling a weH-wora bock off th shelf, he hands it to his
flying student.
"This bock wi3 convince- anyone to try flying," he
said, tenders, that's, something else I haven't tried. I
haren't flown a balloon cither."
Cut if it's true that your're only as young as you feel,
that balloon rile may be nest on Davidson's schedule.
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