Remembering

I was working at the UNC New Bureau as the copy room man when Vice President Hubert Humphrey came to visit UNC.  I really wanted to see him, but had to work to get the story of his visit out to all the news outlets.  It was my job to type the mimeographs, make the right number of copies, fold and put them in envelopes and put the appropriate postage on each one then take them to the post office.  Imagining how it would be done today makes me laugh out loud!  It was a good job and one of several I had while in college.  Somehow I managed to work my way through school and finish in 4 years without owing anyone a penny.  It took several people a lot of convincing for me to understand what I had accomplished.  Even now, it was just the right thing to do.  Credit was not something I had ever known, so it was not in my realm of reality at that time. 

Thanks to my cousin, William (aka Bill) Propest for sending this to me.  Perhaps the letter is stored away in the cedar chest of my family history, but if not, here is the acknowledgement of it in cyberspace.