Re: Gray..

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I went to Purdue, lived in West Lafayette for 8 years, including the

undergraduate years, then moved to Kokomo IN, where I lived for 12 years. I

now live in Logansport IN. The 3 cities form a triangle with West/Lafayette

being the longest leg between both of the others. Kokomo and Lafayette are

homes for automotive and support industries. Caterpillar was in Lafayette

before Subaru-Isuzu and is one of the largest employers in the state.

Chrysler/Daimler and Delco (It has another name now, too.) are in Kokomo.

Logansport is the smallest of the three and turned down Purdue University in

the mid 1800s and Chrysler in the mid 50's. If that had not happened, I

could now be living in a college town with a large automotive industry. This

would have polluted our two rivers tremendously, though, and the country

side would be much fuller of homes than trees. Since those other two towns

are not that far away, we can go shopping there easily enough. And with the

Hoosier Heartland corridor finished between Ft. Wayne and Logansport, Ft.

Wayne is now closer in time than Lafayette, due to the 4 lane highway.

Within 20 years, this corridor should be open to Lafayette from Logansport,

making it much closer than Ft. Wayne. By then, I won't really care.

My sister tried to get a job at Subaru, but was turned down. Her friend,

however, got a supervisory position and was trained in Japan. I believe they

actually chose the wrong person. Not because she's my sister, but because of

her capabilities. Their loss.

Now that you know where the Boilermakers are from, maybe you can root for us

when we play IU.

Mike Gray

Gray..

> I was reading the pls posts, and read your post. I had to write to

> tell you something. You wrote you are from Layfayette Indiana. Believe

> me I have not traveled that much, but for my job, I went to Lafayette

> to the subaru-isuzu for one weekend. I have been in your town. I was

> amazed just how big that plant was. Worked all that weekend did not

> get to see the town at all. We did get to eat at the outback steak

> house before we came home. We was there locating a problem on the

> outbacks SUV'S.Did not do anything after working 12 hours each day.

> Just went to earn some extra overtime. I did not know even where it

> was..but did not take no time to find out we was in " PURDUE COUNTRY " ..

> the workers there was very proud of THEIR BOILERMAKER'S. Take

> care.. from Ohio.

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