Before retiring, Mike Gardner was a professor at a community college for 36 years and at a state university for 35 years (not consecutively!), where he had the privilege of teaching over 44,000 students and received many awards. But he's just a regular guya husband, dad, and grandpa who loves kids and food and likes (most) dogs. He's a former basketball player, now enjoys taking walks and sleeping (when he can), and after 50 years of marriage, he still loves dating his wife!