Occupation: Former Governor Of Washington Birth: October 16, 1925
I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946..
And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other ….
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war..
The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy c….
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pr….
I was always good at math and science and physics..
But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate d….
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college syste….
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948..
I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way ….
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War..