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A: As I mentioned, Bob Perry was killed in 1978 but his widow still lives in the house that they were in at that time. We are going to stay at Gail’s house for a while and make little trips out from there. Q: So this was an Englishman who started this. A: No, he was actually an American, but late in his career he moved to England and was working on another handbook and consulting there. Basically he was U.S. That’s one of the possible projects. We have a second home in Colorado that we have had for about 10 years now. So we will spend more time there. I’ve gotten more interested in doing fly fishing, usually catch and release. I like that. I’m an avid handball player. I’m going to stay with that. I have really a social group that I play handball with. I’m going to continue that as long as I hold out. I will probably visit the family more. We are close to our three sons. Our oldest son Guy lives in Seattle. Patrick, the youngest, lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. The middle son, Michael, lives in Kansas City. We are close to all three sons. Each of them has two children, so we have six grandchildren. So we will spend more time visiting them. I have started and am going to learn to play the guitar. Q: I saw it and wondered who played it. A: About a year and a half ago I actually took lessons for about six months. I really have no musical talent. But I love the guitar and always wanted to play, folk music, that kind of thing. Anyway, I took lessons but then I got so busy and I laid it aside. Now that I am retired I’ve picked it up again and am going back to playing simple songs. I’ve got a 24
Johnny Cash book over there that I play a couple songs out of. More time to read. Probably I will do that. Then the last thing is I am going to spend some time digging out my family history. I have known for some time that my great-grandfather supposedly was sheriff of Selma, Alabama, during or right after the Civil War. He named one of his sons, my grandfather, Wilkes Booth Green. There’s no doubt where he stood. So I think there is probably a story there. Maybe not a very good story, but a story. So I am going to look into that for good or bad. Also Pat and I are interested in politics and might become more active in the Democratic Party. That’s a lot of projects and things to do Q: Oh, yes. You’ll keep busy. I usually finish this up by asking people what their assessment of KU is, your department, past, present, hopes for the future, that kind of thing. A: Okay. Generally, my feeling about the university is very positive. I came here in the first place because it was such a great fit. I had a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering and my graduate degrees were in chemical engineering. Our department has programs in both chemical and petroleum, which is almost unique in the country. Maybe another department or so has had that. But anyway that was a good fit for me because I could fit in both disciplines. So over the years I have really felt very good about our department. You know, not entirely, but generally the people have gotten along very well and can operate in somewhat of a democratic fashion. We try to do things by consensus, which has happened most of the time. 25
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