Brushes with greatness/obsession
Thinking about my college days (see earlier post) reminded me of the late Professor Harvey Butchart. I took one of his math classes.
He is said to have logged 12,000 miles hiking/rafting in the Grand Canyon over decades of exploring the big ditch.
Some of the kids in his classes thought he was just this genial Mr. Peepers nobody. They were wrong.
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