John Pfeffer (twentieth century) and late, lamented Owner

Welcome.  My name is John Pfeffer (to pronounce, prepare to make the "P" sound, then change your mind and go with the "f").  I am a chemistry instructor and member of the Physical Science Department at Highline Community College.  If you would like to contact me, my office is located in building 29, room 337, my phone number is (206) 878-3710 extension 3507, my e-mail address is jpfeffer@highline.edu, and my conventional mail address is at M/S 29-3, Highline Community College, 2400 S 240th ST, P.O. Box 98000, Des Moines, WA 98198-9800.

I have let this page sit idle for about five years.  I apologize for the outdated information that has been sitting here over that time.

Courses

P_SCI 100    CHEM 110      CHEM 121     CHEM 142     CHEM 150     CHEM 151     CHEM 152     CHEM 153     CHEM 154     CHEM 250

Personal Information

I was born in Aurora, Colorado and raised in Federal Way, Washington.  My post-secondary schooling included work at M.I.U. in Fairfield, Iowa; Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon; University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington; Iowa State University in Ames; and the University of Washington in Seattle.  I received a B.A. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Linfield and the candidacy certificate (Ph.C.) in Analytical Chemistry from Washington.  I started teaching in 1969 and have worked at Highline since Fall, 1987.

A Favorite Quote Related to Physical Science

Nosotros (la indivisa divinidad que opera en nosotros) hemos soņado el mundo.  Lo hemos soņado resistente, misterioso, visible, ubicuo en el espacio y firme en el tiempo; pero hemos consentido en su arquitectura tenues y eternos intersticios de sinrazón, para saber que es falso.  - Jorge Luis Borges, 1932*

A Favorite Quote from the film "The Adventures of Don Juan" starring Errol Flynn

"My friend, there's a little Don Juan in every man but, since I am Don Juan, there must be more of it in me!"

This page last updated (a little) spring, 2006.

* We (the undivided divinity that operates in us) have dreamed the world.  We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time; but we have allowed into its architecture tenuous and eternal interstices of unreason to let us know that it is false.