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 Good afternoon. My name is Bill More. I am a retired faculty member of

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Industrial engineering. Today is
friday

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january 22nd, 2010.

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I'm interviewing dr William Lewis.
Bill Lewis who is a started industrial

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engineering, we designed, etcetera for
the A. S. U. R. A history video

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history project

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namely William Lewis, William E.
Lewis.

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I retired from a issue in 19 Actually
2008 May of 2008, June actually 2008

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After serving 42.5 years at ASU.

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For the most part, it was a good 42 a
half years so I need a little bit of

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time that that I wasn't happy, never
regretted taking a job straight out

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of Northwestern, straight out of
graduate school here at the issue and

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that's for the most part of the state.
It's been very enjoyable time. It's

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only been a few times I haven't been
but I consider very enjoy. I still

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enjoy claiming that I'm from a shoe. I
still wear my issue logo shirts

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probably I will until they wear out.

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And Bill, just to start with, could we
have a little bit of information

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about your early life? Where were you
barking and raised? I was born in

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Hagerstown Maryland Uh in September of
2000 and 2004 of 1940. I lived

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there until 1950 When my mother and
father uh moved out to a little town

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called Woodbine, which was about 30
miles west of Baltimore and lived

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there and went to school there. That's
where I met my wife, she and I were

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in school together and

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started dating in the junior year of
high school and got married in my

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freshman year of college. And I went
to Hopkins for a bachelor's degree in

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industrial engineering. I started off
in electrical engineering was taking

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I. E. Courses only it seemed like I
thought what am I doing? And so I

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switched to industrial engineer.

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I spent four years there. Very good
four years. It was very enjoyable.

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Hopkins was a small school at that
time. It still is a small school

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compared to a shoe but by far But it
was only like 400 freshmen In the

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Class 200 pre med, 200 engineers. That
was about all the work at Hopkins.

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And So I got my bachelor's degree.
Hopkins in 1962. Left there in 62 to

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go to northwestern. I was given a N.
D. A. Fellowship at northwestern for

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three years, spent 3.5 years there
getting my master's and PhD in

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industrial engineering. Uh primarily
emphasis in operations research and

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computing activities.

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Dissertation was really theoretical
computer science with with gill

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cruelly whose of all things a
psychologist. Um but he was very very

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interested in atomic theory and that's
what we were doing. Atomic theory

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Came out here in 19. Mhm. Well 60
December 65 is when my contract says.

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But really for the fall of 66, spring
of 66. Excuse me and joined the

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industrial engineering program and
been here ever since. So that's sort of

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in a nutshell, Married have five
homemade Children. And if they had over

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the period of time, 30, 40 years,
about 20 some foster Children. I

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currently have two, especially
Children living at home. Derek who is blind

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, cerebral palsy confined to a
wheelchair and clint, who's a navy pima

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indian uh philosophical syndrome
point. And they're still homeless. The

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others are going, I got kids from
Seattle area to D. C.

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So they're all over the country. My
baby daughter teaches at drury

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University and my oldest son can't
tell me what he does. He has to shoot

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me at some point, he works for the
state department officially. So who

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knows? I hear a lot of people work for
the state department, whether they

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do or not about the other kids, what
is it doing? Uh Let's see. Uh mary

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Sue. Uh My my middle daughter is the
911 operator in Redmond Washington.

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Lead 911 operator. My oldest daughter,
Angela is a

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childcare development person in uh in
Missouri. Out of Columbia Boone

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county of course, or grand out of
University of Columbia in Columbia

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University of Missouri in Columbia.
And then my youngest boy rob works

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here today, asyou