Joe Wilkins, 1965 Liberal Arts

<p>Today we’re talking to Joe Wilkins 1965 Liberal Arts Graduate. Joe was a member of ROTC during his time on campus and also worked for Don Mitchell as a radio announcer. He has gone on to travel the world and has even written a book called Gates of the Arctic National Park: Twelve Years of Wilderness Exploration from his days exploring Alaska.</p> <p>This week’s episode will be a two-part episode. The first half will be centered around Joe’s time as a Saluki and the second half will be next week, focused on Joe's world travels and retirement life.</p> <p>The song Bumbler by Andy G. Cohen, has been used in this podcast. This song is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Their music has been adapted to fit scenes in a podcast using reverb and collaboration with other music. This song and other links to this artist can be found on <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreemusicarchive.org%2Fmusic%2FAndy_G_Cohen&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cjohn.pollitz%40siu.edu%7C124362e509be421e9aa508d8eef484e5%7Cd57a98e7744d43f9bc9108de1ff3710d%7C0%7C0%7C637522081346206261%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=vib1HpKp3pXsfHcq06kHvWPruEPa516SwzdvqLiX68M%3D&amp;reserved=0">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Andy_G_Cohen</a></p> <p><img height="160" src="https://freemusicarchive.org/image?file=image%2F85PRTqxnDQ90YdeImrf0Ewgi0focjOHUtzWbHprX.jpeg&amp;width=155&amp;height=155&amp;type=image" width="160"></p> <p><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreemusicarchive.org%2Fmusic%2FAndy_G_Cohen&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cjohn.pollitz%40siu.edu%7C124362e509be421e9aa508d8eef484e5%7Cd57a98e7744d43f9bc9108de1ff3710d%7C0%7C0%7C637522081346206261%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=vib1HpKp3pXsfHcq06kHvWPruEPa516SwzdvqLiX68M%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Free Music Archive: Andy G. &nbsp;&nbsp;Cohen</a></p> <p>I compose