A cow college become a fine University.

"When I was a student, I vividly remember the four wings of the engineering building and the construction of the new Student Center nearby. I walked from the Newsom Hall dorm past the livestock and pig pens to classes in the new engineering building. In 1959-65, CSU was a cow college becoming a truly fine University and I was so proud of the new buildings, the education I received, and how the new campus buildings blended with the Oval and other buildings.

"ROTC was a distraction for me, but I needed the money and it cost me an extra quarter to get the credits I needed to get a 5-year BSCE degree, but with what I learned, I built projects all over the world that had never been built before. After 14 years as a heavy construction Civil Engineer in the Army, building roads, bridges, and Green Beret camps in the jungles of Thailand, and as a professional civil engineer in six states building hard rock tunnels, subways in San Francisco and Washington DC, plus four years on the North Slope of Alaska, I always seemed to find each new project more exciting and challenging for me than the last. I began to set goals further out in areas that challenged me, and I changed careers to aerospace and evolved into an entrepreneur currently creating a commercial transportation system to and from the moon to permit the mining and development of the Lunar resources. Students including me have a difficult time projecting forward in time and imagining what their life will contain. I tried to view my future and set goals for me to achieve. I, for example, being 'so smart' as a student, was sure I would never have anything to do with a railroad or the metric system, so I shut my mind to these subjects. Of course, my first job as a young 2nd Lieutenant in the jungle was building roads designed by British engineers using the metric system and my second job included tunnels and subways, which were railroads underground.

"The professor I remember most is Max Parshall, the creator of the Parshall Flume in open channel flow. He was a truly interesting person and instructor from his complete derivation on the black board of every formula we ever used in hydraulics and other labs. In 1959 thru 1965 he was already famous for his work in the irrigation and open channel flow of liquids. He was really something to see in his vest and well-tailored suit fighting to keep the caulk off his very fine clothes."