By: Richard Starke Met Eng Nuc. option Dec 71

Richard Starke Met Eng Nuc. option Dec 71 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 04:36:39 +0000

I see you check on salaries of graduates. I remember getting a survey asking how much I made when I gradated back in December 1971. I signed up for the Navy and then afterwards I messed my knee up playing intramural football. In order to get it back into shape for the Navy after an operation, the school let me use a whirlpool one time and the gym to try to rehab before entering the Navy. Since I could use the gym to rehab, I looked for work in Rolla and landed a job at the Wayfair Inn washing dished for $1 an hour plus eats. I’m not sure you entered that into the data base. A fellow grad, Lindell Rutherford, with a degree in Ceramic Engineering went on to Navy Greatness. I saw his name in the local newspaper which noted he was the Commanding Officer of the USS George Washington, nuclear powered aircraft carrier. I googled Navy.mil and then Aircraft Carriers and then George Washington. His bio said he had been the East Coast fighter pilot of the year. Very impressive. Then years later I was watching the Military Channel (Now the American Heroes Channel) and I saw him walking down the hallway. He was a retired Admiral and was in charge of the virtual design of the new X carrier. I ended up working as a civilian Nuclear engineer for the Navy. The only other Navy mighty might I met was Lynn Lammers, a Naval Academy graduate whom I went to School with at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut. I had a date and no car one evening so I asked him “Dad, I have a date, Can I have the car tonite.?” You can only have so much fun in life.

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By: Richard Starke Met Eng Nuc. option Dec 71