How Nevada Bob Met the Love of His Life
Excerpt from Nevada Bob's memoir, 50 Years with the Wrong Woman . Bob started classes at the University of Washington in the fall of 1960. His objective, he explains, was to learn how to communicate effectively, so he took speech classes and English classes and any class that assist him in presenting his thoughts and ideas effectively. The goal of communication is not to impress people with big words. As many college students learn early on, fraternities do a lot of recruiting in the early weeks of a freshman's first experience of college life. Though Bob wasn't attracted to frat life, he did go to a dance on one occasion when invited. One evening, I was approached by a group of guys. They wanted me to come to a dance and join a fraternity. I wasn’t interested in joining the fraternity, but I went to the dance. They drove us to Seattle University. It was at this dance that one of the two most important events of my life occurred. I was wat...