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Chapter V A college autobiography (written two days after being informed of my completing req'ts for grad'n. SUNDAY)

My freshman year was spent at Oregon State University where I earned a 4.0 gpa majoring in electrical engineering. There I joined the Pi Kappa Phi Social Fraternity and was house scholarship chairman and representative of our house to the Thames, an OSU interfraternity group. I was one of 25, of the 4000 freshmen who received an award for scholarship and leadership in the University and became a member of Phi Eta Sigma, a national freshman honor society. I attended Campus Crusade for Christ's Leadership Training Class during my year at OSU.

It was a good year, but I didn't really feel that I fit in very well because I did so well academically and was so much more active on campus than most Oregon Staters and yet still had an easy time of it. Though the times were interesting and eventually truly enjoyable, there was unpleasant