When I graduated from Ontario High School, attending the UO was the furthest thing from my mind. After four years in the Air Force and spending the last year in Vietnam, I returned to Ontario and eventually enrolled at the UO. I received a BA in political science in 1973 and, with the help of divine intervention, was admitted into the UO Law School and got my JD in 1976. I have been retired since 2019, after practicing law in Dallas for more than thirty-eight years. I owe my success to the UO and am proud to be a Duck.