Talking about having the phone in the room reminded me that on one occasion there was a general announcement of a tornado coming through, and I didn’t quite realise the implication of that until everyone said, you leave your windows open, you go down to the basement. Everyone in the married quarters dorms were sort of little prefabs on campus. They all came in down to the basement. This tornado came through. We all now know what tornadoes can be like but... and fortunately it passed near Flint which was about seven miles away. It didn’t come closer than that and touch down through campus, but they took that very seriously, and campus policemen were roaming around campus checking that everyone was out of sight.

On another occasion, they rang me in the middle of the night and I... there was a car park, a multi-storey car park that I used because I was hiring a car, of course, to move about and they said, you’ve left your lights on. They of course had the number plate. They knew where I was staying so I could go back and switch off the lights from the car. Well, that was Michigan State.