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As an alumnus of many years back (BA 1955 and MPA 1976), I feel a need to commemorate the staff of the political science department during the period when I majored in political science. I never fully appreciated the greatness of this staff until I had been a practitioner in the field at both the state and national levels for a number of years. I don't remember having expressed my appreciation to these excellent teachers. While I know most of these people are probably deceased, I want to express my gratitude, a little late, but never less expressed now. When I first started working in the field, I had to compete with graduates from the prestigious Ivy League universities who frowned down their noses at people from "cow colleges." It was not long before I realized that I had received not only as good an education, but in some respects better. For this I want to belatedly thank the following listed professors, one of whom I don't remember his first name and not always sure of the spelling of some last names, but all of whom I still have a very vivid memory: John Ferguson, Harold Alderfer, Neil Reimer, Dr. Atwater, Vernon Aspaturian, Lee Corter, Wallace Brewster, Nelson McGreary, Ruth Silva. Robert Hendershot