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Although I lived in Dallas from September 1972 until August 1973, there were only few items of real interest during this time. When I was in Midland, I had signed up to attend the DeVry Institute of Technology. This was a three-year vocational school that would award an Associate Degree in Electronics. My first semester consisted of one class each in mathematics, calculus, basic electronic theory, tube theory, electronic drafting and one lab period. My classes started at 1100 and ended at 1800. The school helped find me an apartment to live in (with three room-mates) and a job. My first job was at United Parcel Service from 0430 to 0800. I would take any packages that the drivers could not deliver and find out the correct address for them. Dull, repetitious and boring are adequate descriptions of this job. During the Christmas break in 1972, I decided to visit my friends in Midland and stop in at Barnhart. I left early one morning and found that most of I-20 was covered in ice. The ice storm was so bad that only one lane of traffic in each direction was open. I saw hundreds of trucks that had either skid out of control or had their diesel fuel frozen. I dropped out of school during the second semester to take a full-time job at Southern Chemical Company. Here we made chocolate and strawberry powder for milk. I would come home every night completely covered in cocoa powder and when I took a shower; it looked like streams of dirt being washed off. By the way, I stopped drinking chocolate and strawberry milk after I worked here.
Next section Back to Big Lake Years Taken from the manuscript "Out of the Deep", by Robert L. Goehring. Published 1995, 1998.
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