<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/issues/2024-spring/proud-and-grateful.html" dsn="news"><item_date>03/29/2024 12:00:00 AM</item_date><category_header/><title>Proud and Grateful</title><subheader/><description>A visit to see the Two O'Clock Lab Band began a 'wonderful' career experience.</description><author/><photographer/><image><img src="/sites/default/files/bruce-hunter_1_thumb.jpg" alt="Bruce Hunter"/></image><thumbnail_image><img src="/sites/default/files/bruce-hunter_1_thumb.jpg" alt="Bruce Hunter"/></thumbnail_image><taxonomy-story-type>Letters to the editor</taxonomy-story-type><taxonomy-cultural-story-category/><taxonomy-news-sections/><taxonomy-college-department/><taxonomy-tags/><type>story</type><categories/><relationships/><main-content>
    
    
  
    
      
      
        Bruce Hunter ('90 M.S., '05 Ph.D.) in 2001.      
    
    I just received my North Texan magazine. It brought tears of pride to my eyes. The publication becomes better and better each year and reminds me how proud and grateful I am for my many years at UNT.

I first visited UNT in 1969, having hitchhiked from Waco to visit a friend in the Two O'Clock Lab Band. I fell in love with Denton, and I officially moved to Denton in 1976 and enrolled in a master's program in 1986. That was the beginning of a wonderful career experience. I was so fortunate to become a staff member of the Institute of Applied Science and an adjunct professor in geography, and I obtained my doctorate in environmental science. I retired after 28 years, but my affection for UNT has not retired. Your magazine tweaks that fondness every time I receive it.

Bruce Hunter ('90 M.S., '05 Ph.D.)
Denton
  

    
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