I wrote Jasper Jottings in the early 1950′s after Jim Noonan, Joe Macy, Paul Sullivan and Bob Lind – perhaps not in that order.

I am retiring from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln as an Emeritas Associate Professor after 30 years of service in the Computer Science and Engineering Department.

This January I gave a lecture on Elliptic Curve Cryptography at Notre Dame. It wa sthe 50th year of my graduation form that University.

I have a lot of people that I should thank including all the Brothers that taught me at LaSalle and Manhattan. I will take the space to thank Dr. Frank Taylor who whet my appetite for Mathemetics and Statistics and Brother Alban of Mary who made me work as hard in “Religion” as I did in Math. I will forever be grateful for the brothers insitance that we take 24 credit hours in Religion. It has stood me in good staed all these years.

I remember studying philosophy using Brother Benignus’s book “Nature Knowledge an d God”: What a blessing!

During my years at Manhattan we had the basketball scandal with Junius Kellog saving us from embarssment by turning in those gamblers who tried to ruin the game.

I was fortunate enough to be around that summer in 1953 (?) when the New York Daily News (3 cents) announced that Lindy Remingino was the Fastest Man in the World in the Olympics that year.

Working my way through school I worked for John J O’Leary and Assocaites who had the PR contract from Mahattan and where housed in the Cardinal Hayes Libraray . My Boss was Bill Miller (48) who helped me get college correspondent jobs with the NY Times, Hearld Tribune, AP, UP.

It was a great joy to me to have a bylined story in the NY Times and the Catholic New York when Manhattan beat Nebraska in the 2006 NCAA playoiffs with Joba Chamberlan pitching for Nebraska.

I have met a number of Jaspers over the years around the world but knone as graceful and fun as Jim GillChrist and his wife Marion who along with their 11 children made my wife, Mary and our seven children’s stay in Vienna Austria the most informative, fun and enjoyable years of our lives.

St. John the Baptitse de :LaSalle Pray for us!

Live Jesus in our hearts Forever.