Walking down memory lane. . . .9

The journey began in September 1964.  

I had never been out of my home state of Arkansas, unless you count Memphis as out of state.  In fact, I spent most of my first 18 years within 25 miles of my home in Pine Bluff Arkansas. The late Roy Hunter encouraged me to apply for scholarship in Pulp and Paper Technology at State College. I receive a scholarship, along with four other high school seniors from the Pine Bluff area, and the rest is almost history.

I arrived on campus via the bell tower entrance the week before Labor Day and remember thinking, "this is a big place." I had never been on a college campus before and had never heard of NC State or Carolina, for that matter.  I owned three pairs of wheat jeans, six shirts and a pair of shoes and I was ready! Extremely shy and with few social skills, I began college life in Tucker Dorm.