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By Bridget Harrow
Reporter
It is late, and a Texas A&M stu
dent sits slumbering over a chemis
try book. Music plays in the back
ground — a little on the loud side —
as the student works on formulas
that will be on the next day’s test.
The life of a typical college student?
No, not really. This student is not
as “typical” as he seems. Pictures of
his two grandchildren are encased in
a frame, and the large American flag
hanging over the living room means
more to him than it might for an
other college student.
The gray-haired, 67-year-old stu
dent is Ed Moreland, ajunior meteo
rology major and a World War II
and Korean War veteran.
After serving 22 years in the U.S.
Marine Corps Reserves — several of
them as a pilot — Moreland said he
has come back to college to “learn to
give.”
“All my life I really have been
doing things for Ed Moreland,” he
said. “In other words, I never really
felt I contributed to society. Al
though I guess I did. I went out
there and fought a war for every
body who is in school today. I refer
to it as striking a blow for democra
cy.”
Moreland began his college edu
cation in 1985 — 45 years after he
struck his first blow for democracy.
He enrolled in Texas A&M at Gal
veston, where he lived in a campus
dorm for two years before transfer
ring to the College Station campus in
Spring 1987.
But Moreland didn’t come to col
lege without a specific goal in mind.
“I read about this 91-year-old
woman who keeps going back to col
lege and getting different bachelor’s
degrees just to satisfy her thirst for
knowledge, but my goal is a little
more focused,” he said.
Moreland said his ultimate goal is
to win the Nobel Prize.
“The greatest accomplishment is
going to be the day when I receive
the Nobel Prize for discovering a
method of steering hurricanes and
the possiblity of causing hurricanes
to diminish in magnitude,” he said.
Moreland said he knew he would
major in meteorology because he
formulated his theories through his
Marine experience. He went to a
Marine forecaster and observer
school, and forecasted weather re
ports for military aircraft. He also
Ed Moreland, left, studies with friend William Oestreich in Sterling C. Evans Library.
managed a national weather station
at a Marine base in El Toro, Calif.
“That is when I figured how I
could give to society and accomplish
what I want to do,” Moreland said.
“I want to set myself to getting my
bachelor’s, then my master’s, and
then I want to get into research
work. Next I’ll have to massage these
theories, and hopefully I can get
some results from which I can write
a thesis, and I’ll get my Ph.D.”
“So I elected to stay in the Marine
Corps.”
After retiring from the Marines in
1964, Moreland flew nine years for
Air America Airlines, which oper
ated under clandestine conditions in
Southeast Asia during the Vietnam,
Cambodia and Laos eras.
Moreland said he probably will
not be alive to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize for his theories, but he
hopes eventually to be recognized as
the person who did the research.
When asked why he didn’t go to
college after World War II, More
land straightened up and indigna
tion blazed in his eyes. Not many stu
dents today have lived through the
Great Depression, he said.
“We had 25 percent attrition,
meaning roughly 25 percent of our
guys didn’t come back,” he said.
“They were shot down or they
crashed or whatever. It was the kind
of excitement of, ‘Am I going to
cheat the devil today?’ ”
peers,” he advised. “Just blend:
and they will accept you.”
The most impressive aspect oft
peers, Moreland said, is the
friendship and sharing of ideas.!
sharing works as a stabilizing fort
that keeps him in touch withtneprt
sent generation, he said.
“I am not bothered at all thau
peers are younger than I,” Morelan
said. “I have found it a pleasure:
meet and know so many of them, ft
after all, they are the future leadet
of our country. One of themjtii
might become president of th
United States."
“It was very impressionable to me,
and security was more important to
me than going to college,” he said.
Moreland said he continued to fly
for Air America until he foresaw the
North Vietnamese takeover of Sai
gon.
Although Moreland has a wealth
of military adventures to recount, he
prefers to give advice to both older
and younger college students.
“Don’t be afraid of going back to
school and don’t be afraid because
you happen to be older than all your
Morela
To younger people,
gives different advice.
“College is a lot of fun,” he sail
“You go to college not because y«
mama or papa tell you that youhau
to go, or because the state said vo
have to go. You go because youwaa
to go. Wnen you graduate fromhij
school, life is only beginning, sol
sure to go to college, or you’ll missal
the fun.”
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