Frank Troy

Frank Troy (previously Frank Hanenkrat) was born in the house that served as General George Custer’s Civil War headquarters during the battle of Appomattox. He graduated from Appomattox High School, and earned BA and MA degrees from the University of Richmond. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Washington before completing a PhD in American Literature at Emory University. In 1972 he returned to Lynchburg to accept a professorship in the English Department at Lynchburg College (now University of Lynchburg). He retired as professor emeritus in 2001.

Frank has visited every state in the Union except Alaska and has traveled extensively in South America, Africa and Europe. His favorite cities include Rio, Guaruja, Capetown, Paris, Florence, Zurich, Bern (the home of his paternal ancestors), Stuttgart, and Pforzheim. Upon retiring he moved to Boulder, Colorado and later to Santa Cruz, California before returning to Lynchburg in 2009.

As an eighteen-year-old he served as a Page in the United States House of Representatives, and in his mid-twenties he served as a lieutenant stationed with the United States Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Benning, Georgia. Over the years he earned state certification as a yoga teacher (Massachusetts) and as a practitioner of Rolfing Structural Integration (Colorado).

Frank enjoys reading about the history of physics with a special interest in the different standards of truth exemplified by physics and the humanities. His varied interests have included birding, woodworking, blacksmithing, silversmithing, and kiln work with glass. These days he devotes himself to writing, walking and other fitness exercises, reading, movies, and good conversation. Frank is looking forward to this next chapter in his life at Westminster Canterbury.