American - Politician | November 11, 1925 -
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
Daniel J. Evans
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When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
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I was always good at math and science and physics.
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
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I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
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Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
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I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.
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I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.
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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
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But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
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I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
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I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
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