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INSTRUCTOR C. Michael Allen Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
with Bonnie OFFICE Location:
2260 Biscayne Avenue, The Villages, FL 32162
Dr. Allen has retired from the university. December 2008 ended his last semester after 34+ years in a combination of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He met loads of great students, faculty, and staff during that period and will certainly miss them. However, life moves on.
He
and his wife, Bonnie, are retired and enjoying aspects of life after
employment: Church, Golf, Pickle Ball, swimming, Bridge (both Party & Duplicate),
Mah Jongg, and the more than 2800 social and community organizations and
affinity clubs in The Villages.
The Villages has 648 holes of golf, nearly 250 Pickle Ball and Tennis courts, 11 softball fields,
two Polo fields, and approximately 70 neighborhood recreation centers offering swimming
pools, shuffle board, horse shoes, and bocce. In addition, there are 23 Family
Recreation Centers offering free meeting and game rooms, six-table pool rooms, and
complete kitchens. Rounding out, there are 13 Regional Recreation Centers offering
everything the Family centers do plus archery, and air rifle ranges, and sports pools
for water volleyball and lap swimming.
The Villages certainly has the amenities supporting an active lifestyle and has been described
as an "Adult Disney" offering Seniors a Spring Break experience 24/7. It has First Class
medical, Public Safety (seven Fire Stations and four Sheriff substations within
The Villages!), shopping, restaurants, three 8-screen movie theaters, two 36 lane
bowling complexes, three town centers (each with their nightly FREE entertainment).
Everything, including all the Recreation Centers with their sports activities, are easily accessible by
golf cart.
There are multiple performance centers featuring acts ranging from Villager orchestral
and vocal groups, to full-blown touring professional musicians, actors, and dancers.
The complexes range in seating capacity from about 200 to 1,000. Between the performance
complexes and the three town squares, there are more than 125 live performances a month.
All are available by golf cart ride at admission costs ranging from FREE (town squares
nightly, weather permitting) to $90+ for MAJOR national performers. Yes,
we have a golf cart, although nearly 10% of the 65,000+ homes here have more
than one and fewer than 2% of the homes are without one! These carts range from
generic carts like ours to Yesteryear carts that are replicas of 1920's Fords
(including convertibles!), to replicas of fire trucks or 18-wheeler cabs,
Rolls Royces, vintage Mustangs, '57 Chevys, and more.
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