University of Illinois prof for 50 years plans to keep teaching

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At 87, University of Illinois professor Roy Axford has no plans to stop teaching.

CHAMPAIGN — Roy Axford has been a professor at the University of Illinois for 50 years, and he has no plans to stop.

The 87-year-old Axford works in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering. He was honored Thursday.

Axford said that the tradition in his family is to work for a lifetime.

He continues to teach a full load of classes.

And he has a growing list of students who say he helped shape their lives. One of them, Scott Ramsey, works at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and is one of about a dozen Axford students at the prestigious facility. Ramsey says without Axford he would never have gotten the job.

Axford’s wife, Anne, says her husband just loves to teach.

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