Well I studied history, started in history, and ended up wanting to be involved in education, secondary and higher,
and all my time there influenced me in that direction. Pres. William Friday was then an assistant dean of students,
and I got involved in student government and all that sort of thing and he suggested to my roommate
and to me that there was a position open at North Carolina State, the assistant dean of students here.
The dean of students-the only really dean of students-was a man named Ed Cloyd and he had been at State for a long time,
and the guy that was his assistant had been called back into the service. So my roommate wanted to go to law school,
I didn't want to go to law school, I came over and applied for the job and ultimately I got a little handwritten note from Dean Cloyd saying,
"If you want the job you can have it, starting-," date so-and-so, salary thirty-six hundred dollars.
That's the sort of thing you remember. So, here I've been most of my life.