About Robert

The author’s professional career became at an early age when he decided that teaching history would become his future. He realized it would not be easy coming from a blue-collar family where funds were scarce. The solution was attending and graduating from an Illinois junior college, then commuting from the south-side of Chicago to DePaul University each day to earn a B.A in history and political science, and later a M.A from the same institution.  He became a teacher at Mother of Sorrows High School and was on its faculty for 17 years teaching History and English.  Ten of those years he served as Assistant Principal and held that position until MOS was forced to close because it could not complete with government funded public schools. He next turned his attention to aviation and became manager of the Lansing Municipal Airport and served in that position for the next 23-years until 2008.  After his retirement he turned to writing about topics he was proficient in.  The Village of Lansing and its Airport Past Present Future has been published recently.  He has written over 40 articles for the Lansing Journal newspaper on topics of community interest.  Those can be found if you Google Bob Malkas