From Melon Fields to Moon Rocks. Dianna Borsi O'Brien
Ussary said, “but we learned.”
Kaiser agreed. “I had taken technical writing and excelled at it, but I could always guarantee it wouldn’t make any difference; Charles would always rewrite and rephrase, and later he might even rephrase his rephrase.” Having worked with Charles from 1962 to 1968, first as an undergraduate student and then for his Master’s Degree under Charles’s direction, Kaiser recalled, “You never ever got anything through without some comments, rewording.”
Working with his students, often with the students as first author, Charles had more than 270 scientific refereed papers published in scientific journals. He also wrote ten published books.
Kaiser said the training held him in good stead later when he became the ABC Labs business-development principal. The job called for developing client proposals and bids, and he found himself doing the same thing Charles did—rewriting and rephrasing his own writing and that of his subordinates.
But if Charles was a harsh taskmaster, he also made sure his students had what they needed to excel. “We always had plenty of money,” said Ussary, which meant they also had the equipment they needed. Charles, he said, seemed especially talented at finding funding, “He seemed to have more than his share of grant money.”
As Stalling noted, when he visited MU in 1962, it was clear who had the “toys and the equipment.”
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