Bird, didn’t know you went to ACU, my best friend went there a couple years. It’s actually a pretty liberal Christian university now.
Funny thing about that. I've never seen that college.

You know police officers (in Dallas, at least) used to work rotating shifts. So I used to work one month at a time on all 3 shifts. That could make it difficult to find courses that I could work into my schedule. And then our federal government thought officers should be better educated, so a program was started (LEAP - Law Enforcement Assistance Program) in which I paid all my college exenses, BUT when I received my final grade card after a class, I could send it in and was reimbursed for the tuition (but not any other expenses), and Uncle Sam checked on officers once a year after that. If you didn't stay an officer for 3 years, you had to pay back that tuition money.
So Abilene Christian, like some other colleges, opened a small campus in the first suburb east of Dallas, and that's where I went to the classes. Their professors would have a morning class, then repeat the same class in the evening, so we could make either class.
Over the years I took classes that interested me at the time at a lot of different colleges; North Texas State (Denton,TX), SMU (Dallas, TX), El Centro College (junior college in Dallas), Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Sam Houston State College (Huntsville, TX). So, eventually there came a time that I thought perhaps I should consider a degree. So, I found that I needed a couple of more English classes, some more math, another science class, and at Abilene Christian, Bible classes. So I got a Bachelor of Science degree, *** laud, (major in Criminal Justice; minor in Sociology) when I was 35 years old and had more than 150 semester hours.
I was first told that I'd have to go to Abilene for the graduation but then they decided they'd have enough students graduating that year in the Dallas area that we'd have the cap and grown ceremony here. So my parents got to see me graduate. And now I still get the alumni magazine, even though I've never actually seen the campus.

