What’s been happening:

Since Penn State, a week after I received my PhD the draft board classified me IA. So I hurried back to Penn State to get letters from my professors recommending me for a commission as an officer in the Army and I was at the bus station to take a bus to Washington, DC for that purpose. While waiting for the bus I called Dean Whitmore to get a letter from him. He told me very forcefully not to go into the Army, in this war people with a scientific training like me were needed in industry not in the trenches. I had on graduation accepted a job with the Seagram Company in Indiana and Dean Whitmore told me to take the next bus to Indiana, and I did. The job there was a government sponsored project to make synthetic rubber. The draft board came after me but the company appealed my case, first to the state draft board without success, and finally to the national draft board in Washington, and I got a Presidential deferment. I should mention that a month after being in Indiana I was back in Pennsylvania being married to Gertrude Hecht, Penn State '40. We spent a night of our honeymoon at the Nittany Lion Inn. After the war (1944) I took a job as Asst. Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida at Gainesville, where I am now an emeritus professor with the longest service of anyone on campus.