I graduated  from William Penn in 1965 with the rest of you. I went to Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA, graduating 
in May, 1969 with a Political Science major. I went to the University of California, Berkeley to attend the 
Ph.D. program in Political Science. I completed my Ph.D. studies in 1974 and was hired as an Assistant 
Professor of Political Science at California State University, Chico. I lived in Berkeley during a 
wonderful time and I had a ball!! Moving to idyllic Chico was good for me and I have been here since 1974. 
I attained the rank of full professor in 1986 and have authored (co-authored the first two books) three 
reference texts in Political Science. 

Chico is a beautiful, small--100,00--college town near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the 
university has 16,000 students. Chico is situated in Northern California, 160 miles north of San Francisco. 
My current position at Chico State is Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. I will retire 
in 1 and 1/2 years. My wife Joan is a native of Victoria, British Columbia and we have a home in Victoria 
which provides us with a necessary refuge from university life in Chico. I haven't been to Harrisburg since 
April, 2000. Both of my parents passed away in the 1980s.

Byron M. Jackson
Dean
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0450
530-898-6171 

From Byron M. Jackson, August 12, 2003
My sister, Gail Jackson Quarles, alerted me to your website about Harrisburg. I also grew up in Harrisburg, born in 1947 to Oliver and Alma Jackson. I wanted to let you know about a book that has a small section on and sources about African Americans in Harrisburg. The book is Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community. The book was written by Gerald G. Eggert and was published by Penn State University Press. It is very informative and offers a good history of industry in a developing Harrisburg of the 1850s through the early 1900s. Your readers might find the bibliography and sources helpful.

Harrisburg Industrializes also has a short section on Dr. William Howard Day, after whom the William Howard Day Housing Project was named. Dr. Day (the Dr. reference is an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Livingston College) came to Harrisburg as a school teacher in 1872.

My sister, Gail Quarles, made reference to the Joe the Motorist's Friend store on Third and Verbeke Streets in Harrisburg. It was always one of my favorite places in Harrisburg (as well as the hotdog stand at the Third Street Market) because they always featured a large Lionel trains display and stock at their store. I went to Hamilton Elementary School, Camp Curtin Junior High School, and graduated from William Penn High School in 1965. We lived uptown on Fifth Street after spending our first years as a family of 4 in the William Howard Day Projects.