LSU

I started at LSU-Alexandria shortly after High School graduation in 1965. In those days you had to either be sneaky or be caught when you were an entering freshman because upper-classmen hunted you down to cut your hair. Unfortuneately, I was not sneaky enouugh. I had a brand new crew cut when I left for home the first day. You had to have good humor in those days! The hair grew out again! Anyway, I signed up for courses thinking that I was going to enjoy Journalism right away and newspapers and magazines would be knocking down my door to get me to write articles for them. Didn't work out that way!
I met many new friends at LSU-A, one of them was Richie Laird. He was very interesting to me because he graduated from a high school in Okinawa. His dad was in the Air Force, a member of the clergy, I think. Anyway, we became fast friends and started hanging out together. Richie was a great ladies man. He was tall and some would say good-looking, so the ladies loved him. He was a great guy to hang out with for that reason and many others. He was a nice guy and easy to get along with I think. More about Richie and other friends in the next post.