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CHM 2210 Organic Chemistry I |
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CHM 2211 Organic Chemistry II |
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| Dr. Gray's Daily Schedule |
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My wife, Miko, of French extraction, and I presently live in Winter Haven, close to the half dozen grandchildren now in our family. Miko and I have vacationed in France - an especially easy thing to do when one has relatives over there. Needless to say, however, she says I speak French like a Spanish cow. I have enjoyed teaching chemistry at PCC, anything from Introductory Chemistry through Organic Chemistry. The students are great, the classes just the right size. Advances in technology and computers have opened up doors to me that enable me to really broaden the materials available to me to do a better job - anywhere from working up new laboratory manuals to developing chemistry web pages. My spare time is devoted to two primary things: graphite portrait drawings and classical guitar, both of which I thoroughly enjoy. Back in high school, I was asked to draw a lot - things like posters to be placed on walls. Ever since then, I did not bother with art until a few years ago, when I decided to try pencil drawing of portraits. I found it was easy for me to do and I find it very relaxing. The other area I decided to try was playing classical guitar. When I first came to Florida, I brought an electric guitar with me. I had taken some lessons back home in "popular electric guitar" but was bored with it. When I decided recently to take classical guitar lessons, I realized what a waste of time my lessons on the electric guitar had been. Classical guitar really teaches one how to play the guitar and read sheet music. I highly recommend classical guitar studies for those who may be interested in starting a musical instrument. I welcome suggestions at the above email address from PCC students as to how to improve on any of the lecture materials to be found on my sites for the individual chemistry classes listed. Well, as they say in French, "Au Reservoir". |
I was born and raised
in New York City and have been on the faculty of Polk Community
College since 1970 after obtaining my Masters and Doctorate degrees
from St. John's University, New York, publishing papers in the
Journal of Organic Chemistry (Formation and Structure of Certain
Oxazolonium Compounds) and the British journal Tetrahedron (Selective
Ring Expansion of Delta-5,10- Octalin-1,6-Diones Via the Schmidt
Reaction). I then came down to the sunny climes of Florida.
Education:
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 B. S. in Chemistry - St
John's University, New York. M. S. in Chemistry
- St John's University,
New York. Ph. D. in Chemistry
- St John's University,
New York. |
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Courses
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Links are provided
to courses presently being taught by Dr. Gray: (To go to any of the courses below, a username and password is required.) CHM
1025 Introductory Chemistry CHM
1045 General Chemistry I CHM
1046 General Chemistry II CHM
2210 Organic Chemistry I CHM
2211 Organic Chemistry II |
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Lakeland Office: LAC 1157 and Phone: 297-1010
extension 6151 |
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Dr. Gray's
Daily Schedule: He has classes and office hours in Lakeland. |
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rgray@polk.edu |
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