William Blackstone King, Jr., Ph.D.

William B. King, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology and Sociology
Coastal Carolina University
P.O. Box 261954
Conway, SC 29528

Bill King
Aynor, SC 29511

1951 - born Aliquippa, Beaver County, PA
son of William Blackstone King and Norma Grace Heydolph
grandson of:
Leroy Porter King and Mabel Beatrice Blackstone
Frederick Christopher Heydolph and Arline Brown

great grandson of:
Othello Walter King and Mary Caroline Bechtel
William Elder Barren Blackstone and Ursula Bird Craven
Frederick Christian Heydolph and Anna Katherine Pfannkuch
Barlow Brown and Mary Matilda Trace

great great grandson of:
John S. King and Elizabeth Piper
Isaac K. Bechtel and Ann Maria Sterner
Robert West Blackstone and Jane Barren
David Craven and Esther Hadassah Mouck
Friedrich Heydolph and Catharina Elisabeth Schultze
Christopher Pfannkuch and Maria Elisabetha Iffland
Gabriel Brown and Elizabeth ...
Amos Trace and Rebecca Deichman

1969 - graduated from Hopewell High School, Aliquippa, PA
1973 - graduated from Ohio State University (B.S. in Psychology)
1980 - graduated from UCLA (Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology)

1973-79 - teaching assistant at UCLA
1981-88 - academic staff / assistant professor at University of Wisconsin-Platteville
1989-90 - visiting assistant professor at East Stroudsburg University, PA
1990-92 - adjunct professor at University of South Florida-Ft. Myers
1992-now - associate professor at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC

physiological psychology
human neuropsychology
statistics (beginning and intermediate)
animal behavior
behavioral genetics

chess (USCF rated 1625 but currently playing considerably below that)
genealogy (my gg grandfather, John S. King of New Castle, PA, is my brick wall.)
photography (dormant now for lack of a darkroom)
baseball card collecting (only vintage pre-1970 stuff, mostly Pittsburgh Pirates)

automobile - 1964¹/₂ Ford Mustang (coolest car ever made!)
beatles songs - Do You Want To Know A Secret (early), Fool On The Hill (middle), Mean Mister Mustard (late)
comedians - Marx Brothers, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Monty Python, Lewis Black
decimal number - π (It's irrational.)
exercise - Any one that I'm not doing!
fiction / novels -
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck), The Wayward Bus (John Steinbeck), Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo), Straight Man (Richard Russo), The Black Cloud (Fred Hoyle)

giraffe - reticulated
hostelry - Bishop Pine Lodge, Trinidad, CA
infielder - Bill Mazeroski
jokes / riddles -
How many psychologists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer
What's the difference between a trampoline and an accordian? Answer

kleptocracy - the United States, of course!
lunar feature - Palus Somni (Marsh of Sleep) on the NE edge of Mare Tranquillitatis
movies -
Dr. Strangelove, Cool Hand Luke, To Kill a Mockingbird, Field of Dreams, The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham
The Wizard of Oz (not embarrassed to admit it!), Miracle on 34th Street (the original, not those horrible remakes)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tremors, Angry Red Planet, King Kong, Young Frankenstein, Cat Ballou
American Graffiti, Dances With Wolves, Gran Torino, Blazing Saddles, Life of Brian

nonfiction books -
A Naturalist Buys An Old Farm (Edwin Way Teale)
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)

oxymorons -
emotional intelligence (no. 1 oxymoron of the 20th century!), new and improved, fresh frozen, politically correct
graphic novel, good morning, random pattern, act natural, civil war, business ethics, global village
paid volunteer, athletic scholarship

pearls of wisdom -
For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been." (John Greenleaf Whittier)
The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. (Annie Savoy in Bull Durham)
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. (Hubert H. Humphrey)
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. (Henry David Thoreau)

quotes, zingers, quips, and japes -
I believe I have found the missing link between animals and civilized man. It is us. (Konrad Lorenz)
For rebelling against every form of authority, fate has punished me by making me an authority. (Albert Einstein)
You can safely assume you've created God in your image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do. (Anne Lamott)
You may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but congress can. (Cullen Hightower)
The only thing a group has ever invented is bookkeeping. (John Steinbeck)
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. (Will Rogers)
Better Dead than Disco. (On a Grateful Dead tshirt.)
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. (William A. Orton)
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. (Groucho Marx)
I intend to live forever, or die trying. (Groucho Marx)

restaurant - Irv's Deli, Neptune, NJ
six-letter word - syzygy
television show - Bob Newhart Show (of all time), Big Bang Theory (currently)
urban area - don't have one!
vegetable - Is chocolate a vegetable?
writers -
John Steinbeck, Carl Hiaasen, Richard Russo
Edwin Way Teale, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost

x-ray binary system - SS 433
year - 1984 (2nd favorite 1960, 3rd favorite 1964, least favorite this one)
zugzwang - 2R5/pk1K4/8/7P/7p/6p1/8/8(w); zugzwang occurs after 1. Ra1 Kxa1 2. Kc2