Daniel J. Evans Quotes

Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.
Daniel J. Evans

Football, Days, Act

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.
Daniel J. Evans

Training, Choice, Half

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.
Daniel J. Evans

Education, School, Law

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
Daniel J. Evans

Graduation, Bachelor, Degree

I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.
Daniel J. Evans

Time, Activities, Campus

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
Daniel J. Evans

War, Navy, Korean

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
Daniel J. Evans

Money, Today, May

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.
Daniel J. Evans

Thought, Point, Maybe

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
Daniel J. Evans

Until, Navy, July

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.
Daniel J. Evans

Graduation, School, Law

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.
Daniel J. Evans

Best, Wanted, Service

I was always good at math and science and physics.
Daniel J. Evans

Good, Science, Physics

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
Daniel J. Evans

Career, Leader, Kinds

Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
Daniel J. Evans

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
Daniel J. Evans

Person, Night, Big

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
Daniel J. Evans

Time, War, University

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: November 11, 1925

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