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Visit to NMSU in 2002
BACKGROUND: In November 2002 I visited my
old campus at New Mexico State University, to see what it has become.
After graduating from High School with 4 majors, and after a summer in
dating at long last and believing she was to be my lifetime mate, I
entered NMA&MA, as it was called then, as a Physics major and ready
to learn all knowledge, paying my way by working 6 months of the year
at White Sands Proving ground, as it was called then as a coop student,
working in radio telemetry during the testing of rockets. Entrance testing showed I
knew more chemistry than those who had already taken college chemistry,
so I did not get to do college chemistry, a subject I also wanted to
learn all there was to know about; and I was put in the English Honors
course, despite my dislike for the choice of material deemed valuable
to upper-crust language students, which I was not. It took me a long
time to discover the reality that my girlfriend had totally dumped me
and probably never intended a serious relationship with me; meantime in
the growing despair and subsisting on wheat gluten foods which were not
tolerated by my digestive system, and getting a severe case of Tinnitus
in both ears in the Freshman year (which has never gone away, note)
which made it nearly impossible to hear the class lectures nor remember
much of what was said, and unable to find a new woman to date on the
campus which had 12 men for every woman student, struggling here during
the years 1954 to 1959 eventually became a dropout, having changed my
major to Psychology in the last effort before leaving college to find a
wife, then I would see if I could return to college; of course that did
not happen as my wife merely considered me a means of easy income for
her, no need to spend any money on me; I was desperate for a wife, and
few women would consider someone so socially inept as I was.
But decades later, I had finally been married for a dozen years; and later my daughter then attended and graduated from this same university.
Jim (me, J E D Cline) and the new dorm that is
called Garcia Hall, as the old one was where I lived in 1954-1956.
Photo taken on 2002 11 26.
The Knowledge sculpture at NMSU. 2002 11 26
The Sundial in front of Hadley Administration building at NMSU. 2002 11 26
Goddard Engineering bldg at NMSU. Goddard, for whom this building was named, is considered the father of liquid fueled rocketry.
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