Beanies and Bright Ideas I graduated from high school in June of 1967. Having never cared for school, the thought of doing four more years of schooling after high school was not an appealing one. It had been a long haul just getting through 12 years of public school. Higher education to me was just a fancy name for even more wasted time sitting in a classroom. However, my parents always considered college for me as a given. Coming from them it seemed to be a requirement if one was going to be a success in life, so the master plan was for me to go to college. The only question was where? W here ended up being Valparaiso University in Indiana. That fall my parents drove me out to Indiana and delivered me to Valparaiso University. Valparaiso was and still is a Lutheran affiliated school. Among other things it had a good engineering program but it's most notable claim to fame at that time was a large beautiful campus chapel. We arrived at the dorm I was assigned to,
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