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'''''Jonathan "JanuaryThunder" Townley''' is a former associate professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of several books on popular culture and demography. Outside of academia, he is also a prominent activist and speaker.'' | '''''Jonathan "JanuaryThunder" Townley''' is a former associate professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of several books on popular culture and demography. Outside of academia, he is also a prominent activist and speaker.'' | ||
''Jonathan Townley was born into a modest, working class household in Spokane, Washington. There, he learned the virtues of hard work, family, and community.'' | ''Jonathan Townley was born into a modest, working class household in Spokane, Washington in 1942. There, he learned the virtues of hard work, family, and community.'' During the spring of 1953, he witnessed a frightening storm, during which lightning struck and fell a tree which had been in his family's care for generations. It was from this event he derived the pseudonym "JanuaryThunder". In second school and in university, he published subversive articles in his local newspapers under this alias. | ||
''He has been described by his colleagues as "an unrepentant scholar", "a beacon of wisdom and hope", and "perhaps the greatest living genius of our time". Unfortunately, many of Jonathan Townley's groundbreaking academic dissertations were destroyed in a fire which consumed the eastern portion of the previous Washington State Public Archives building in 1962.'' | ''He has been described by his colleagues as "an unrepentant scholar", "a beacon of wisdom and hope", and "perhaps the greatest living genius of our time". Unfortunately, many of Jonathan Townley's groundbreaking academic dissertations were destroyed in a fire which consumed the eastern portion of the previous Washington State Public Archives building in 1962.'' | ||