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Drury College was really a liberal arts school, so I was inundated with economic
courses but limited in business courses, so I transferred to Central Methodist
College, (CMC) now named Central Methodist University, in Fayette, Missouri.
There I joined a local men’s fraternity, Alpha Phi Gamma; we were called Mokers,

and Sue was on our sweetheart court. I also became a social chairman for one year,
and I started and managed a new campus radio station with sixteen volunteers. We
played music and news into the dormitories around the clock. In the St. Louis area,
all radio stations started with a K in its call letters, and it was a big decision as to
what ours would be. Somehow, I outfoxed all the members and professors in
accepting KMOE, which were the letters from Moker, my fraternity. Wow!

Gotcha! When they finally figured it out, they all frowned. [Chuckle, chuckle!]

The highlight of my time at CMC was meeting my future companion, Sue. She and
I dated for four years as she does not make quick decisions. I offered her my
fraternity pin. The first time she turned me down; the second time she did not, and
the rest is history.

I decided to go to Washington University in St. Louis in June 1961. I strictly went

to school during the day and worked nights and weekends. My social life was
restricted to trips to see Sue either at home in Quincy, Illinois, or at CMC in
Fayette. I graduated on June 30, 1963, with both a B.A. and a B.S. degree.

My next educational exposure was acquiring my master’s degree, an MBA. I
would do this while working full time. I was then employed with Dow Corning
Corporation in Midland, Michigan, and attended night school and weekend classes

at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, which was about 40
miles away. My impatience threshold forced me to decide to cram to finish since a
possible promotion was pending at work. I took my vacation time plus a month’s
leave of absence one summer to finish. I got an MBA in the shortest amount of
time in the history of the university at that time and was on the Dean’s List with a
3.56 cumulative grade average on a 4.0 system. The school and Dow Corning

splashed the news in their newsletters and bulletins.

On the other side of the educational coin, I taught various graduate level courses at
local colleges during 1997 – 1999. Being curious as to how I pulled this off, I
checked my I.Q., and it was 135. Maybe it was a combination of the genes, lots of
studying, professional learning, and lots of tests by many testing agencies. I never

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