Powerpoint honoring the life and work of Carlos S Alvarado, PhD (1955-2021)

1. Made Out of Wholecloth:
The Life and Work
of Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D.
Nancy L. Zingrone, Ph.D.
Northcentral University,
The Alvarado Zingrone (virtual)
Institute for Education and
Research,
Parapsychology Foundation

2. Today’s
Talk
Whole Cloth Or Wholecloth?
Life
Work
Legacy July 1983
March 2021

3. Whole Cloth Or
Wholecloth?
Wholecloth Quilt retrieved from a Quilting Adventures
event notice called “Wholecloth Quilt Design with Cindy
Needham” at Cindy Needham - Wholecloth Quilt Design
(constantcontact.com

4. Think this … Not that …
Image of the liar retrieved from out of whole cloth (idioms4you.com)

5. 1963, aged 8
Photo provided by Alberto M.
Alvarado
Life
• Boston, Massachusetts
• San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Orinda/Walnut Creek, California
• Charlottesville, Virginia
• Durham, North Carolina
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• New York City
• Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Chapel Hill/Carrboro, North Carolina

6. 1969, from the left Carlos’s brother
Alberto M. Alvarado, his mother
Ileana Vélez, and Carlos aged 14
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Photographs provided by Alberto M. Alvarado

7. Top: 1986, aged 31
with from left Nan Zingrone,
Carlos M. Alvarado, Alberto
and Himself
2005, at his 50th birthday
party, with his mother and
Alberto
San Juan, Puerto Rico

8. 1971, aged 16 with
Alfonso Martinez-Taboas
2010, with Alfonso
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Photographs provided by Alfonso Martinez-
Táboas

9. To the left, in 1978, aged 23, at John F.
Kennedy University, with (from the right in
the photograph) Patric Giesler and David J.
Hess
Orinda, California
Photographs provided by Patric Giesler

12. Work
Mentoring his students,
colleagues, writers, the
students of others
Teaching and designing
curriculum
Serving on dissertation
committees
Publishing for academic
journals in several
different disciplines and
several languages
Writing for general public
venues, including his own
blog
Serving on editorial
boards and as a book
review editor
Providing library aids
(bibliographies and basic
topic essays) for the
Parapsychology
Foundation
Writing encyclopedia
entries, and academic
book chapters
Lectures as part of his
work duties, the AZIRE
courses and the courses
of others
Conference work
(organizing, presenting)
Interviews of all sorts
Developing a group of
collaborators with whom
he has crafted multilingual
and multinational focuses
in their publications
together

14. An
acknowledgement

15. University of Virginia
(September 1982 through May of 1986
and March of 2003 through May of 2010)

16. Institute of Parapsychology
(May 1986 through
December 1993)
the Rhine Research Center
(2013 to 2014)

17. Parapsychology Foundation
(July 2000 through
December 2008, and
January 2015 through
December of 2020)

18. Atlantic University
(May 2010-January 2013)

19. The Legacy

21. The Legacy

22. Thank you for your
attention
To contact me:
• nancy@theazire.org
For more information about Carlos’s life and work:
Carlos S Alvarado | Psi Encyclopedia (spr.ac.uk)
Carlos S. Alvarado Biography (1955-2021) | The Alvarado
Zingrone Institute for Research and Education
(theazire.org)
For publications:
Publications | The Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research
and Education (theazire.org)
For Carlos’s blog:
Parapsychology | News, History, Research
(wordpress.com)