50 years later, still feeling forever Jung

It's been 50 years since David Roomy '61 left TCU. It's also been five decades since Swiss psychiatrist and thinker Carl Jung died.

Both have significant meaning to Roomy, a retired psychiatrist and professor living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with wife Cynthia Macnider Roomy '61. David has penned a tome of poems and musings called Spirit and Flesh, Englishman and Greek (iUniverse) about what Jung's "union of opposites" has meant in his life and practice. June is recognized as the founder of analytical psychology, a pioneer in dream study and among the first to view the human psyche as "by nature religious."

The book spans the last 50 years, exploring "what these opposites of spirit and flesh could mean for others but without reference to theory—only depending on art and beauty of phrase," David writes.

"Individual lives are important," he continues. "Often they tell the story of developments taking place on the collective level. The opposites are rendered here, for literary purposes, in the images of English-like and Greek-like parts in ourselves."

David transferred to TCU from Bethany College after a year of travel and speaking as the 1958-59 president of the International Christian Youth Fellowship Commission. Later, he took writing courses at the Poetry Society of America and Columbia University and has been a Penguin/Arkana author. He has traveled to Greece many times and lived for seven years with his family in England.

The 90-second movie, shown below, chronicles his life since leaving TCU, he says. The couple has found memories of TCU, although they regret missing their 50th reunion.




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