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" Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher. "
Boy
Uniform
Scout
" And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering. "
Navy
You
Choice
" But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering. "
School
Interesting
Law
" I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. "
Civil
Bachelor
Engineering
" I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time. "
Activities
Time
Campus
" I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. "
Korean War
Back
Got
" I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money. "
Money
Think
College
" I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically. "
Involved
Got
Want
" I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946. "
Navy
Until
July
" I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. "
Pressure
Think
School
" I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree. "
Service
Think
You
" I was always good at math and science and physics. "
Always
Math
Physics
" Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall. "
Fall
Back
Came
" The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career. "
You
Navy
More
" We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early. "
Night
Results
House
" When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. "
War
University
Time
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