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Dr. John H. Green is presently a fulltime teacher at St. Johns River Community College in St. Augustine, Florida. He teaches Speech Communications. Dr. Green received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1982. He was recommended to Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 2003-04 and 2004-05 by students from Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida and the Community College. Dr. Green has spent the last forty years working in churches and schools. He also has a Master Degree of Divinity from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Green is the author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles. He is married to Brenda Kay Miller Green. Kay works with the local St. Augustine Council on Aging as Coordinator of Volunteers and Program Development.

Dr. Green says, "College students keep me thinking young and inspire me to keep on learning. Some people believe these students are America's future, but I think in terms of them as America's present as well. Deal with these minds in the present, and you will make the world safer for the future. I struggle to engage myself with the students in a way that teaches them to think 'outside the bun', and in so doing, creative minds will bring us a destiny of a hope that will never die. I teach that humor is a great source for loving to learn, that humility will help keep a balance on the perspective of life, and that serving humanity is the ultimate goal."