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Profiles in Badassery: William Naylor

The Purdue Boilermakers just won a football bowl game.

I try not to think about the fact that he took me to my first football game. Northwestern. It’s the first Purdue memory I have, but this isn’t supposed to be a sports story.

It’s been less than a week.

William R. Naylor was an apprentice and a student. He was a mechanic. He became a soldier in Korea. After, he became a husband. Then a student again with the GI bill.

Then a teacher.

A father.

A master’s student taking night classes while working during the day.