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I remember little about the day other than being called into my advisor's office on the second floor of the John Millis Science Center of Western Reserve University. Karl J Casper said he had been denied tenure and was leaving to take a position at the newly forming Cleveland State University. He would no longer be my advisor. I think I was being transferred to Berol Robinson.
He said that, if I wished, I could go to Oak Ridge TN and do thesis research at the Chemistry Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
I chose to do that. I packed up my things and put them into my VW bug. I had a carrier on the top. On it I placed a large heavy box of "stuff", probably books and left. Neither I-71 from Cleveland to Cincinnati nor I-75 south from there were finished.
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My social life in Oak Ridge was minimal. There were few people of post high school age in Oak Ridge, other than graduate students. In the summer, someone, possibly the local Baptist Church, had a volleyball game night on a tennis court.
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At some point, I went to Knoxville and found the Newman Club.
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This story reminds me of one outing the Newman Club made. We went to a house in LaFollette TN where we celebrated Mass in the "pool house".
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