Fifth Year at Rice

A month after Britany’s birth I finished my 4th year at Rice. In normal times I would have graduated with a BA in Electrical Engineering (a degree of participation, not worth much). With Viet Nam raging these were not normal times. I deferred my BA in lieu of receiving both the bachelors and masters at the end of five years. This was to sustain my student draft status. I will present this in greater detail later.

I transitioned to full time at the Houston Speech and Hearing Center for the summer and there there was a hiccup. I had been running a lab to detect deafness in infants and this lab was being given to a post doc.

My pride was hurt and I sought other employment.

Following the Russian space success in the late 50s,, the National Advisory Committee for Aviation was renamed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and given control of the US space program.

Rosket design was going on in Huntsville, AL, and launches from Cape Canaveral Florida. There were some research centers at other places.