Guest opinion: Save our tradition of higher education
Out of the blue I received an email from an old classmate, Larry Tarrant, Medical Lake High School class of 1965. He is reflective in retirement and he is looking up old friends.
In his third email to me, he happened to be visiting the campus where he went to college, the University of Oklahoma.
鈥淪o I鈥檓 sitting in the coffee shop this morning in the OU Student Union and I鈥檓 watching all these fresh young faces go by with their entire futures ahead of them and I鈥檓 thinking to myself I can鈥檛 be this old 鈥 seems like I was just here for freshman orientation. What have I done with my life? Honestly, would I do the same things again or change everything? Did I make a difference to anyone or anything?鈥
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