"Bringing Our Pioneer Spirit of Yesterday Forward Into Tomorrow"
"Bringing Our Pioneer Spirit of Yesterday Forward Into Tomorrow"
It was the fall of 1978, my son was five years old and my daughter 8. They were “knee high to a grasshopper” as they say in Arklahoma. I was attending Central State University, since renamed to the University of Central Oklahoma. I was majoring in Biology.
Why Biology? First I had a real love for the science. Secondly, I had always done well in this branch of the sciences. I had basically been forced into a business degree program my first year of college and (more…)
On June 22 Mark Rush will be forty years old!!
My Uncle Dutch is not a tall man, and he has what we affectionately call a Buddha belly. I know that he was skinny once upon a time. I have seen pictures of him when he was young and in the Navy, but that is not the Harry Dodd I know. He is elderly now, with white hair, and it is hard for me to not think of him in a suit and tie. The first thing that you will probably notice about my Uncle is his smile. While he doesn’t smile all the time, it is certainly there more than it isn’t. And it is the type of smile that just lights up his whole face. (more…)