New at Blogging

Well my son just set me up with this blog site and now I don't know what to do with it.

I am a semi-retired college instructor who is trying to write up some of my experiences from my early days.

Here is an excerpt.


SUMMER 1971
The Summer of 1971 was very eventful.
I had taken Physics 1 at NEJC and barely passed. I took Physics 2 at MSU in the spring of 1971, and almost passed. It was the only class in college that I did not pass. So in order to graduate on time, I had to go to summer school.
I received permission to stay in Suttle Hall during the summer, and I got permission to do “work Study” in the Entomology department during then summer also. While working for the Entomology Department that summer, I remember going over into Arkansas one weekend to a big pecan plantation. It was our job to spray Malathion on these huge trees to kill pecan weevils. I would ride on a trailer being pulled by a pickup. On the trailer was a huge tank and a pump to spray the trees. I would spray up as high as I could into the trees with the insect poison. Most of the spray would come right back down on me. Within a short time I was soaking wet with insect poison. Of course we didn’t have any kind of mask either to keep us from breathing in all that stuff either. There was no such thing as OSHA back then; It’s a wonder I didn’t get killed from breathing in all those fumes that summer.

I retook Physics 2 and passed. I also took a microbiology class called “The Science of Public Health”.
Unbeknown to me, my future wife was also attending MSU that summer.