Gene Thomas was the finest spiritual counselor, mentor, and witness to the love, power, and sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ that I have ever known. When I had run out of GI Bill benefits at the U. of Colorado (Boulder), I asked Gene how I could get a job. He said "Get yourself a school." It turned out that there was a shortage of teachers in country/mountain schools, and so a person with only two years of university could get a temporary teacher's certificate. I signed up at the Colorado State Teachers Placement Service (fee: 25 cents), and almost immediately was summoned for an interview with the secretary of the Chromo, CO, school board (one-room school, eight grades in one room, 25 miles from a telephone). Great job, and wonderful pupils. Then, when I finally got my B.A. and was teaching in a rural consolidated high school, I asked Gene how I could get a job overseas and thus see the world. He urged me to apply for the M.A. program in Linguistics at the U. of Michigan (Ann Arbor). I did so, and was hired to train English teachers in Indonesia. This position led to a number of other overseas jobs (Cambodia, Burma, Turkey, and Australia--and back to Indonesia). And I wouldn't have been able to qualify for my present position as a research analyst with the U.S. Army (23 years now) had it not been for Gene's "starting me on the track." Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow!