Formal schooling spanned 28 years of my life, not a record by any means, but nevertheless an unusually long period. However, this section is only peripherally about the education itself, in the sense of what I learned (or thought I did). Rather, the main thrust is what the life was like, as far as I can now recall it.

• Grade schools, 1940-49.

• High school, 1949-53.

• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1953-56.

• The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1956-68.

• 50th high-school reunion, Oct. 2-4, 2003.