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Thoughts about a father

Idaho Press-Tribune 17 Jun 2026
I had a good friend and colleague that passed away sometime back. I wasn’t much older than his oldest children, so he often treated me and worried about me as if I was his son ... .
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A Breached Dam And The White Knight

Vermillion Plain Talk 12 Jun 2026
The Teton Dam failed fifty years ago this last week, and I have shared some stories with people about my memory of the flood that followed. As we were talking about it one day, my oldest brother, Mont, asked me ....
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Fear, hope, and relief

Citrus County Chronicle 12 Jun 2026
It has been 50 years since the Teton Dam broke, flooding the Snake River Valley. This week is the commemoration of that event. Once in a while, I hear someone say the word ‘celebration.’ We do not celebrate the flood ... .
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A Broken Dam: Fear, Hope and Relief

Vermillion Plain Talk 05 Jun 2026
It has been 50 years since the Teton Dam broke, flooding the Snake River Valley. This week is the commemoration of that event. Once in a while, I hear someone say the word “celebration.” We do not celebrate the flood ....
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A Brilliant Teacher, Colleague and Mentor, Part II

Vermillion Plain Talk 29 May 2026
Professor Hoagland called and talked to the director of the computer center, where our class rented time on a CDC supercomputer. A student had forgotten the code to terminate his program in 7 seconds when it entered an infinite loop ....
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A Brilliant Teacher, Colleague, and Mentor

Vermillion Plain Talk 22 May 2026
As a young, new professor at a college, I was to be assigned a mentor to help me learn the ropes of teaching, along with all the other assignments I would have. When I arrived at work that first week, ....
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Making It Better

Vermillion Plain Talk 08 May 2026
Carol called her mother. “Mom,” she said, “is there any way you could watch Tina this Saturday? My real estate agency has some open houses, and they want me to cover them.” ....
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The Value of a Survey

Vermillion Plain Talk 01 May 2026
I was in my mid-twenties when I joined the faculty of a small college. That year was our accreditation, and as part of our report to the accreditation team, we were supposed to write about the challenges we had as ....
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A Y2K memory

Citrus County Chronicle 01 May 2026
In visiting with a friend, we got talking about some trouble we were having with technology. As we did, the subject turned to something I hadn’t thought about in a long time, the concern everyone had about problems that would ... .
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A Glitch In Time: An Old Y2K Memory

Vermillion Plain Talk 24 Apr 2026
In visiting with a friend, we got talking about some trouble we were having with technology. As we did, the subject turned to something I hadn’t thought about in a long time, the concern everyone had about problems that would ....
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