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" I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically. "
Daniel J. Evans
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Boy
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Scout
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. "
Daniel J. Evans
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Bachelor
Engineering
" I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time. "
Daniel J. Evans
Activities
Time
Campus
" 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. "
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You
" Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall. "
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Fall
Back
Came
" 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. "
Daniel J. Evans
Night
Results
House
" 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. "
Daniel J. Evans
Pressure
Think
School
" When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. "
Daniel J. Evans
War
University
Time
" I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. "
Daniel J. Evans
Korean War
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" I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946. "
Daniel J. Evans
Navy
Until
July
" 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. "
Daniel J. Evans
School
Interesting
Law
" I was always good at math and science and physics. "
Daniel J. Evans
Always
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