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Phil was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1943 into a family of chemists. He grew up in Austin, Texas. After finishing his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, he went on to get his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, in 1969. During the first few years in graduate school, he met and married Tina, also a grad student in chemistry. |
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Born on the 4th of July, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, Tina, the granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants, was raised in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and received her B.S. in Chemistry from the College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, New Jersey in 1964. She received her Ph.D., also in Chemistry, from Purdue in 1970. |
Phil started as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at California Polytechnic State University (then College) in San Luis Obispo in fall quarter 1969. Policies at the time throughout the United States made it difficult for Phil and Tina to both teach at the same institution, so she obtained a California teaching credential and taught chemistry and math at Paso Robles High School north of SLO. It was at this time that the Baileys started writing papers and lab manuals for chemistry. The first edition of Organic Chemistry, published by Allyn & Bacon, appeared in 1975.
Their son, Karl, was adopted in 1971; daughter, Jennifer, in 1973; Kristi in 1975; and Michael in 1980. During this time Phil received tenure and promotion to associate professor and was appointed associate dean of the School of Science and Math; Tina taught part-time at Cal Poly eventually joining the tenured faculty in 1978. Both are currently full professors in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Phil is also Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Tina has received the Cal Poly Distinguished Teaching Award and was the university's nominee for the statewide California State University Trustees' Distinguished Teaching Award. Phil has received awards for student support and promotion of diversity in the university.
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