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30. I had a good time there in the 60s and 70s. I used to hang out

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 02:05 PM

Jan 2012

in a bar called the Shamrock. Actually, I had too much of a good time in some ways. I ended up having to transfer to U of I in 1968 due to an unfortunate misunderstanding regarding the daughter of one of the administrators. The incident was apparently forgotten and I was able to go back for grad school in 1970.

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