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RP: And you eventually graduated with a...

HN: B.S. in chemistry, yes.

RP: Chemistry. And did you go into the, the work force after that?

HN: Yes, I went into the work force right after that working for a polymer, organic polymer chemical resin company in Los Angeles, called Specialty Resins Company. That was in 1952. And that company in 1959 was bought out by Allied Chemical Corporation. And then in 1966, Cargill bought them out. I don't know if I got the dates right but...

RP: And you worked for Cargill...

HN: Yeah, until I retired.

RP: So a total of forty years, was it?

HN: No, no. Twenty... I forget.

RP: Overall, from the time that you started with...

HN: I worked for Specialty Resin Company from '52 to '59, so that's seven years. Then I worked for Allied Chemical from '59 to '66, so that's seven years. Then I worked for Cargill 'til I retired in ('92), ('93)? No, let's see, I got to work backwards. I'm eighty-one minus sixteen years, what's that?

RP: Eighty-one minus sixteen is sixty-seven.

HN: No, seventy-seven.

RP: No sixty, sixty-five. Sixteen plus sixty-five is eighty-one.

HN: (1993) is when I retired, yeah. So I was with Cargill for about twenty, twenty-six years or something like that. I forget how many years.

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