Grove City is a good school. I went right up the road at Allegheny.
Yup! After Dad passed I spent a couple of years at Duquesne. (And AF ROTC) But the money started to run out and AF basically told me they wouldn’t put me in a flight crew.
I rebelled again and transfered to Pitt. Big mistake. They wouldn’t let UG’s near “the machine” under Pitt stadium.
Plus there were many conflicts with most of the profs...except the one hippy, dirty, unkempt, assistant prof I had for logic, math or something.
She and I got along VERY well but in the end, one night at Gustine’s, she told me to escape, run...trying to figure things out would make a sane person nuts. She was losing grip on reality trying to resolve things.
She did go nuts. In a rantfest she offed herself.
Officially it was supposed to be drugs but I knew she wasn’t into that...like me she only did beer...Iron City and very little.
I never graduated. Had to go to work to support my mom. A few years later I married my childhood sweety.
That’s when I REALLY started to drink.
;-)
I went right up the road at Allegheny...
...Meadville, Pa props...I went to some school up the road I can’t remember the name of...it’s now a women’s correctional center...maybe they could send Jerry there...he wouldn’t be interested in them, and maybe vice versa...
...bookends, you’re allowing your love for your school to color your perspective...I can relate to that. I personally have an animus toward PSU for years, because of obnoxious in laws and other fans who rubbed my nose in PSU football until I wanted to gag...I’ve been hoping for a long time that something would occur to bring these people down a peg or two, but in my wildest dreams I wouldn’t have expected anything like this...I’ve always liked and respected Paterno, even though I rejoiced over the rare losses he did incur (still don’t know how Miami couldn’t beat them in ‘86)
and now, after all this, while I think comments about him rotting in hell do litte to advance the situation, I see in full just how flawed a person he was, who seems to have believed all the fawning Pennsylvania press stories about himself, a potentate who thought he was the ultimate authority, controlling each and every little thing regarding football...
...it was never plausible that he knew nothing about the 1998 situation with Sandusky; such a control freak as Paterno would have been right on top of it...since that appears to be true, there is little left to defend him with, regardless of our feelings toward him...he is what the Freeh report claimed him to be...a man who looked to his fiefdom before he looked to the fiefs themselves...