by | Jul 3, 2008 | Stories
I was a junior at the UW at the time of the drawing, and felt lucky to receive 247. I was well acquainted with someone heavily involved with the lottery — the comptroller of the Select Service System: my father. He claimed to have had no...
by | Jul 3, 2008 | Stories
I entered the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1965 thinking I was a conservative Republican, which reflected not only my upbringing, but also the collective views of my extended family. Lots happened in the next few years (anti-war protests, King’s...
by | Jun 30, 2008 | Stories
I graduated high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1966 at the height of the war. My first year of college at St. Norbert in DePere, I was required to take ROTC because the school was so small they needed all the freshmen and sophomores to mandatorily take it to...
by | Jun 29, 2008 | Stories
Graduated from U. of Wisconsin-Madison after the then usual 4 years in 1970. I considered dropping out in my freshman year to see if I could have more fun pursuing a writing career. (I was making a little money being a part-time campus reporter for the Milwaukee...
by | Jun 24, 2008 | Stories
I was a senior at UW Madison and attended a basketball game the night of the lottery. I came home and my close friend who knew my birthday thought my number was in the two hundreds. The news came on and I found out I was No. 39. I was not the soldier type, not a...
by | Jun 20, 2008 | Stories
In June of 1969 I had completed four years and all but about a half dozen of the credits I needed for a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering when I headed off to Memphis, TN for a summer job with Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. Toward the end of the...
