>> I went to, you know, high school about an hour away from here.
And I upon graduation started here at Millersville and I did a four-year,
a little over 4 1/2 years, and I have my BS degree in chemistry.
And basically right from there, probably about two summers before graduating,
I actually started working over at the laboratory.
I was just doing basically lab support role.
Then about a year before I graduated I started doing an internship,
which is really kind of nice.
It gave me a chance to see the different departments over there,
interact with different lab staff.
And then I found a particular, what I thought would be a very challenging department,
and then I interviewed for that department, which it was the GC and GCM [inaudible] group.
And I'm still there today after about 20 years.
So I actually happen to be very much either very artistic or very much a science.
And it's very much like a right brain, left brain type of thing.
So I always enjoyed the arts, but I often thought well, it would be a struggle
to make, you know, a career out of it.
So I decided to go with science.
So I think that was probably decided in my senior year.
And you know, I went to Millersville.
I went in as a chemistry major and I wasn't sure if that was how I was going to end up.
It was certainly a challenge for me.
I wouldn't say I was certainly the smartest scientist
that would have went through Millersville.
But I think I worked hard, and I think that's often something people today need to know.
I mean, you can't just get by on just your intelligence.
You really have to work hard for where you want to go and to get there, so.