Harvey Jeffries:  

I was a science and math nerd at FSH. I carried a slide rule for god sakes! I created a Mg/S flare in chemistry class that burned a hole in the lab bench. I dated Alice Detter ('62), Kiki Stillwell (daug't General Stillwell-base commander), and Margaret Newton. I hung out with Mike Graham, Randy Boone, Al Horne and other Key Club members -- We put on a "Gunsmoke" farce sr year. After graduating, I had a choice of Carolina or a new experimental school in St. Pete Fla--Fla Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College). I went to FPC, was in the first graduating class, and it was life changing. I was a chemistry major there, one of 4. I received a spectacular liberal arts and science education. Total faculty 36, total students 115. College was on the water in Tampa Bay and then on the Gulf, I learned to sail, became the Commodore of the sailing club and competed intercollegiately all over Fa,Ga,Sc. I taught sailing in PE for two years. I totally wrecked the college's one-design Lippencott Cedar-hull Lighting Race sailboat by playing hooky and going sailing with my friends during a very high wind, rough wave day-we lost the rudder and crashed into the a sea wall rather than being swept out to Gulf of Mexico. I sailed a 57 foot, two-masted ketch from St. Pete to Dry Tortugas and Key West during spring break sr. year with crew of 6 students (and the boat owner). I stayed in Fla at the college each summer and worked on building advanced electronic language labs, went to Germany on a summer school trip, or worked as a research staff on faculty chemistry projects. I got to live in the homes of some the finest faculty I have every known, to bum around St. Pete with my other nerdy friends and to date FPC girls who lived in St. Pete. and sit around bonfires on the beach. When I graduated in 1964, I realized that I had been going to school year around since 1958 and I crashed at my Mom's for 9 months doing nothing but sleeping and reading and dating an old family friend, Alice Bryant (FSH `64), who became my wife in 1966 for 38 wonderful years. Ultimately, we ended up at the School of Public Health at UNC, Chapel Hill in the Environmental Science and Engineering Dept with another spectacular faculty adviser, Lyman Alphonso Ripperton. Under him I finished a Masters and PhD in atmospheric chemistry, studying ozone formation chemistry, a major urban air pollutant. When I finished, I was asked to stay as faculty at ESE, starting in 1971. I have been there every since. I do work in NC, California, Houston Texas, and Baton Rouge La; I have been in court battles over stupid controls and won; I have consulted at New South Wales Gov in Sydney Australia, and with Germany and Spain many times. I have been adviser to US EPA on many occasions and I have traveled the US with EPA folks discussing and planning national regulatory policy that effects every large city. I have raised tens of millions of dollars in research funds and supported 40 or more MS and Phd students. A large number of air quality PhDs at EPA are my former stud...Expand for more