 I came in 1951 and I stayed until 1976. I was in an office where we built the firing tables for the Army weapons systems and I had been teaching school for four years and I was content but my goodness I came down here and got a tremendous increase in pay and that was $3,100 a year. Well the first part of my career I worked as an analyst. My title was research mathematician and you know the expression if you enjoy your work you'll never work a day in your life. Well that was the way it was for me. My college guidance counselor saw the job posted in the local post office in Norfolk. Got a hold of an application, got a phone call, came up for an interview and was selected for the job. And I think that was the main thrust they wanted me to work on was how do we put together an effort to acquire supercomputers. And so I was very happy. I enjoyed my job. It was a nice place to work. The people were wonderful and to think that there is a computer which in my day took up an entire room. Now that same possibility is on something you hold in your hand. Absolutely astounding. I knew nothing about computers. It was totally a new new thing for me but I felt I was up to the challenge and I felt it sounded like really interesting work and real challenge. The problem was that supercomputers were costing about $25 million and you had to get it into the army budget and it might not stay there. So they had had a mixed bag effort of trying to get supercomputed and had to work. So that was one of my first big tasks aside from managing the two groups was how do you put together a program that convinces the army that BRL can get a supercomputer. The computers gave us the information that we needed to prepare tables that the troops found useful in the field and I can remember distinctly people calling up and requesting tables for people in Vietnam. And they were always so appreciative when you got them off the shelf, failed them immediately and they had them in a short time. Well it gives you a good feeling to to feel like you're helping out out the soldier in the field and I wanted to make sure I was accurate with my calculations because I knew lives were at state. I think it's a wonderful opportunity for a young person to do something worthwhile for you yourself and for the country and I and to find a job that is so rewarding. I found it that way and and to this day I'm very grateful to have had this job. So we went from there and that was quite a long effort and that led to effectively what became an army supercomputer program and then later I wound up being the army representative on the DOD wide super computer modernization program that was mandated by Congress. Congratulations ARL on your 25th anniversary. Happy 25th anniversary to the army research laboratory. Happy 25th anniversary ARL.