A Small World At USD

While chatting with Blair Frank of Bertram about his Peace Garden, featured in today's Ramblin' column in The Gazette, he said something about graduating from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

Ah, hah. That's where I graduated, in 1975. Blair earned a degree in biology in 1973. Since each of us finished college in four straight years, that means we were both there from 1971 to 1973. We might have crossed paths, but probably not, being two years and worlds apart even on a small campus with about 5,000 students. When Blair was taking science classes on the west side of campus, I was taking core courses in central campus buildings and then journalism courses on the south side.

Still, it's nice to make a connection with the past and reminisce a little.