Jerry,

My grandfather was a farmer, not a teacher, but it could have been a relative.

Not sure why Northwestern slipped my mind - other than it's going on 50 years ago. I believe Northwestern was MSM conference back then, so we probably crossed paths on the hardwood and on the track. I ran 880 relay and high-jumped, in addition to long jump. Split end and safety on the football team, and a relatively short forward on the basketball team.

Odd coincidence. I graduated first in my class in '61. I had an academy appointment, and wanted to go Navy. However, the AF had the least stringent vision requirement - but they cut me by a hair. I gave up military ambitions, and went to engineering school in Peoria. Strangely enough, exactly 40 years after the Navy wouldn't have me, I took a job with the Navy as a civillian engineer.

Now that you mention it, I remember the Donaldson boys also.

How do three guys from our neck of the woods end up on the same internet forum 50 years after the fact?