Sunday, December 31, 2023
I started at Penn State in 1966, the same year that John Lowe joined the faculty. I was his first start-to-finish grad student. I learned how to program in FORTRAN II in his quantum chemistry course and discovered an aptitude for software development that eventually led to a career in computer science. I chuckled when it was revealed that John liked spaghetti westerns. I must confess that I introduced him to the genre. I had two LARGE posters of Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef (as they appeared in "A Few Dollars More") in the group's grad student cluster area. In his 2022 Christmas card, he thanked me for introducing him to spaghetti westerns.
