Re: [IRCA] Where were you on 22 November 1963?

["Tim Kridel" <tkridel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Small world. I went to Mizzou for college and grad school. 

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On Behalf Of W. Curt Deegan
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Where were you on 22 November 1963?

Tim,

Back then it was known as "The Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy", but
changed it's name around that time to "The University of Missouri at Rolla".
Considerable consternation amongst the student body of the time, denying
town deserved recognition considering it's attitude toward the students --
who were, of course, perfect little angels.  As you can imagine from what
was a nearly all boys school.

Located in Rolla, MO, obviously, it was and still is an engineering and
sciences oriented school/university, but now with a more diverse offering of
other curricula.  My particular major was in Electrical Engineering.

There, more than anyone wanted to ever know.

Curt


At 03:43 PM 11/22/2006, you wrote:

>Which college?
>
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>
>I was a junior in college in Missouri.
>
>As we heard the news on the car radio during lunch break, my buddies 
>and I were crossing over railroad tracks that ran through the center of 
>the small college town.  The view is still clear in my memory of that 
>one short stretch of road.
>
>I also recall sitting stunned during the first class that followed, 
>wondering why others didn't seem to be so affected.  Of course it was 
>probably just my own perception, but I was sure I couldn't have stood 
>and lectured, my mind was so numb.  I even remember where I was sitting 
>-- near the front, left side of the room, by the windows -- but have no 
>idea what class it was.
>
>Everything seemed to collapse into a very egocentric view for that 
>brief moment in time.  As if the mind were trying to shut out the bad 
>news, but too late.
>
>Curt
>-------
>W. Curt Deegan
>Boca Raton, (southeast) Florida


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