While in the service, he became a laboratory medical technologist and his late-blooming interest in education exploded.

AFTER LEAVING the military in 1961, he sandwiched in a few courses at Earlham and worked briefly at Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond as a laboratory medical technologist, then continued that role in hospitals in Middletown and Hartford, Con., through the middle 1960s. Under a work-study program, he was employed in the research laboratory of Bastman Kodak Ca in Rochester while he worked on his two degrees.