by | Feb 5, 2009 | Stories
I had my undergraduate degree and was already teaching elementary school in the Madison school district before the lottery. My school had a lot of high-need students, many from single parent families. The school district sent yearly letters to my draft board...
by | Feb 5, 2009 | Stories
The lottery didn’t mean much to me, since at the time I was going to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and was in Air Force ROTC. Growing up in New York City I’d been pretty uptight, very conservative, and didn’t really question...
by | Feb 3, 2009 | Stories
I was a sophomore at UW Madison, and found out that Electrical Engineering would no longer get you a deferred job, so in mid-1971, I joined the Wisconsin National Guard. An interesting experience, with Basic Training and truck driving AIT at Fort Ord, CA from...
by | Feb 2, 2009 | Stories
I arrived home in the evening, after the lottery draw had begun. I found my mother listening to the numbers being called on a radio. She, too had missed the beginning of the draw, so we didn’t know if I had already been assigned a low number. I went to my...
by | Feb 1, 2009 | Stories
I watched the first lottery with my floormates in Whitbeck House-Sellery Hall. As each guy had his number called, he left the room. This was a totally spontaneous ritual. The networks speculated that those whose numbers were in the first third-about...
