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dissonance with my prep school background. I'd become very intrigued by Stanford and applied there.

The summer after my freshman year I attended Explo '72, a one-week convention of college-age Christians in Dallas, Texas and then went to work for the PECO Manufacturing Company, Inc. in Portland, Oregon as an information system designer. I helped to design the flow of paper and structure of responsibilities for the automated intracompany communication system they were creating, and aided in developing the required computer software and paper forms. This included purchase order and invoice processing, and a materials control system.

I also spent some time improving a computer editing system called Editx - which I began creating during senior year in high school. Information Sciences, of Portland, Oregon, a computer services company, had given me some educational free time on their