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Show 25T book on crystallography by Dr. Dan McLachlan. It would be all mechanical drafting. "But I am not a draftsman, " I said, in the office of Dr. Christensen, Dean of the College of Mines and Mineral Industries, when I went to see what the job was. "Would you like to try i t ?" "On one basis only. After three weeks, if my work isn't satisfactory, you will frankly tell me so, and there will be no hard feelings. " The proposition was accepted, I thought gratefully. I stayed at the University of Utah twenty years, as draftsman, compositor of technical reports, and finally as secretary to Dr. Christensen when he became Coordinator of Cooperative Research, with twelve million dollars a year in Government contracts. He was like Brigham Young also. He knew how to do everything, the right way, and was very patient with me, though he constantly challenged me with new projects, use of a verityper to type equations. He never knew that for the first month I went home and cried myself to sleep every night under the stress of learning so many new, exacting techniques. Many of my mechanical drawings are in nationally published scientific papers. Dr. McLachlan's book came out, with many of my illustrations, and Dr. Christensen sent me out to Dugway Proving Grounds to draw the great radiation food processing equipment which had been created for research on food preservation. They were twenty wonderful years and constitute one of my nine lives. |
