Old Glory: long may she wave!

J. William Cupp

Hello! I'm Bill


IWU Photo 2006/07 ... let me introduce myself.

I am an Associate Professor of Computer & Information Sciences at Indiana Wesleyan University. This is me as seen in a recent college annual.
USS BELLEAU WOOD at sea Sorry, you need Java to see the clock applet In some way, yes a personal home page is a bit of an exercise in ego-centrism. However, I view this as a learning experience. Even if you don't learn anything about me, I will have learned just from the work of creating this home page.
Sorry, you need Java to see the clock applet

This site is forever under construction. At present, I'm busy removing some of the larger files to comply with local total disk space requirements. If you find something that won't load (especially graphics) you can me if you really want to see them, and I'll send the missing picture(s) to you.


Here's what's available --

Included in this website:

  • my own hotlist of personal favorites
  • my address at work and at home
  • see a brief description of my family or explore the tangled roots of my family tree
  • where do we live?
  • a synopsis of the places we've lived
  • some pictoral reasons why Hawaii is my favorite place to live
  • sea stories from my adventures in the Navy
  •         my own reading list        
  • job qualifications resume online
  • 50 years of computing history from IEEE
  • some interesting things to think about
  • Come and see what we've been doing here in the CIS Department at IWU.
  • the very best riddles to keep you guessing plus a trivia quiz!
  • a few sound clips that I've been playing around with
  • get the online, real time weather report.
  • course notes to selected courses I teach

  • Bill's favorites hotlist

    U.S. Navy Visit the United States Navy online!
    Dept. of Defense Or for even more power, call in the entire U.S. Department of Defense.
    NATO If that's not enough, you might want to call in all of NATO for help.
    the LORD God Almighty Beyond that, you could call on the ultimate source of power: God.

    the Whitehouse Citizens of the world may go and visit the White House in Washington, D.C.
    C.I.A. If you want the real scoop (on anyplace) just ask the CIA.


    Some logos I've collected.
    Lutheran Church Corel Corporation The Bible Gateway
    Commodore Business Machines Officer's Christian Fellowship Association for Computing Machinery
    See more logos here.
    Some fun images I've collected.
    See more images here.


    Some personal websites I think are worth looking at:


    Do you know where I am?

  • Work AddressIWU's crest
    Division of Natural Science and Mathematics
    Indiana Wesleyan University
    4201 South Washington Street
    Marion, Indiana 46953
  • telephone: (765) 677-2292
    fax: (765) 677-2455
    email:
    icbm: 40º 35' 14.6" N latitude, 85º 41' 46.1" W longitude, 882' elevation
    home page: http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp
    NB: I just put that last line in to see how many people will bite on a circular anchor!

  • Residence Address
    2525 Breezewood Drive
    Marion, Indiana 46952-9271
  • telephone: ...you know? I think I'll just leave my home phone out of this!

    (But I will give you a hint: it has every digit in it from 1-8.
    Another hint: the '9' and '0' are missing because the last four digits are significant.)

    Our house This shows our spacious home in Grant County, Indiana, just outside of Marion. (Here's directions how to find us.)



    My Family

    Pictured is my wife and I with our three daughters. The girls are age 8 years, 8 years, and 4 years.

    If you happen to agree that the short people are the cutest ones you've ever seen, there's more to see in our family photo album.


    Our History

    We hail originally from Florida; my wife from Orlando and I from Pompano Beach, Florida. 1980 was our first big year, as we graduated from Florida Southern College together, I joined the Navy, and we were married, all in the same year.

    Our life together has taken us to Rhode Island , Florida, Virginia, California, Hawaii, Japan and Ontario, all in the service of the United States Navy. I've gotta say it: Hawaii was my favorite. During that time, I went to sea on four different ships, from minesweepers to amphibious assault ships, and she spent a few nights at home alone wondering where I'd gotten to.

    1990 was our next really big year, since two of our daughters were born that year. From Hawaii we went country hopping, moving to Japan for a year and then to Canada for three years. It was while we were yet new to the north country that God blessed us again with another daughter.

    Where have we gotten to?

    Finally retiring from the Navy in 1997, we settled in beautiful middle America, becoming Hoosiers and enjoying the fertile plains of the midwest. No ocean here!



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