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City Life => New York City => Topic started by: Peter on June 03, 2005, 11:36:28 AM
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Peter Campbell was born…as the saying goes ..”with a silver spoon in his mouth”. He was the only child of Edward and Mary Campbell. Edward was a brilliant man having amassed a fortune with his technical innovations that made computer chips smaller and faster. He had founded his own company and in the late ‘70’s had sold the company to Intel for 2.3 billion dollars. Peter’s Mother was an icon in her own way. She had a passion for truth and a gift of conversation that often turned a “no” into a “yes, certainly”. Peter acquired his Father’s keen mind, quick dry wit and razor tongue. From his Mother he was endowed with a passion for truth and a deep but unassuming religious faith in a Supreme Being.
Peter was a natural student ..in the areas of science and mathematics he was a sponge ..soaking up not only a concept but all the small “crumbs” that were always around the concept but usually ignored.
In 1968, against his Father’s wishes, Peter quite school and joined the Navy as an enlisted man. He applied and was accepted in the Navy’s Seal Program where upon his graduation he was promoted to 3rd class and promptly sent to Vietnam. Peter served three tours of duty being wounded 3 times and winning several service medals. His was the only Seal Team that never lost a man in a combat operation. Peter remained in the Navy for 20 years ..retiring as a CPO in 1988. During Peter’s time in the Military he developed a tenacious loyalty to God and Country.
Upon his return to civilian life he resumed his studies and completed his undergraduate work at Rensselaer, his Master’s at Cal Tech and his Doctor’s at MIT. In every program he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
After graduating MIT Peter applied and was accepted a teaching position at Stuyesant High School in Manhattan. He published several professional paper notable in the area of gifted middle school students. His statue in the Mathematical Community grew and in 2000 he was offered a position in the Teacher Education Department ..Elementary Mathematics, Columbia University.
Peter reputation has grown in these past years. He has passion and devotion for a student that has ability and strives to learn, a tolerance the student that lacks the ability but does their best and a loathing for the student that has ability but is not serious in the quest for knowledge. He has on many occasions reduced a student to a pile of dung with a blistering tirade for their lack of interest or attention.
Peter lives at230 Central Park West and bikes to his office. He has on four occasions been accosted on his ride home late at night. In three of the events the poor soles that attempted to rob or take his bike we reduced to a heap of mangled bones and in the fourth incident the perpetrator was killed when he drew a gun. The NYPD Investigating Officer’s written report was that the death was a clear case of self-defense. Peter still remembers the Officer’s name…Joe Friday..like the Officer in the TV series Dragnet.
While very unassuming in appearance Peter has never forgot his training as a Navy Seal. His hands might be considered “lethal weapons”. Peter remains Expert in weapons, particularly with a pistol. He has a permit to own and carry a small Glock Model 26.
An ever more interesting and exciting part of Peter Campbell would be his sexual persona. Under his rather calm and arresting exterior dwels a sexual predator. His appetite for the female taste is exceeded only by his talent and spontaneous imagination during love making. He looks upon his partners not as conquests, toys or victims but as a person that deserved his complete attention and best efforts to please. It was common for Peter to call his friend and fellow Seal team member..now the security officer in his coop…to come up to his apartment to assist Peter’s partner to her waiting cab. During a night with Peter.. all women are reduced to something like quivering jello and required assistance in walking from Peter’s apartment. All women except one..Judge Helen Gamble. There meeting at a social gathering in 2000 culminated in a weekend of sexual debauchery that would have shocked yet titillated even Venus. Act for act, pleasure for pleasure their parting that late Sunday evening was more of a surrender and mutual respect than the usual..”it was nice, thank you”. They have not been with each other since then…as with all of Peter’s partner there have been no repeat performances.
Peter’s future lay ahead of him..the good and the ugly of the Big Apple..but always alert he knew he would not be another Adam.