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.