Art, yep!  You got it.  It's difficult and not a fun existance.  Too
political, etc.  I would never survive.  My wife has told me for years to
keep my mouth shut, but....

Kurt


At 06:09 AM 6/2/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Kurt and Doug;-
>        You must consider that the growing plethora of Phd candidates are
>always in constant search of something to do a disertation on. It may be
>less than important untill the candidate shows what he can do with it.
>Then candidate "B" will come along and earn his degree by showing that
>Candidate "A" was missing a few cards in his deck, and failed to
>consider the (now accepted, though unpublished) findings of candidate
>"C".
>        What I'm thinking of doing is getting a group of us retired
teachers to
>find out if any of us can pass the 9th grade proficiency test.
>        Happy Thursday.
>        Art
>