Nine Out of Ten is Not Bad

About the Book

A self-story of the author from being born on a sparse homestead in northeast Oregon to farming and ranching in North Idaho. About schools if the 1940's and 50's. Attending college via self-support, teaching and working in Oregon secondary schools and helping to start community colleges in both Oregon and Nevada. He enjoyed many hobbies such as hunting big game of the northwest, flying, gardening, construction, woodworking and many other tasks associated with agriculture. It also visits many other stories regarding his siblings and his own children.

About the Author

Carl G. Devin was born on a homestead some 40 miles north of Enterprise, Oregon. At the age of two, his parents moved with their nine children to a ranch east of Culdesac, Idaho. They farmed and did ranch work in the Culdesac areas for about ten years before moving to a farm near Lapwai, Idaho, some eight miles further west. In 1951, Carl graduated from high school at Lapwai and continues his studies at the University of Idaho that fall. He married Patricia A. Dawes in 1954 and graduated with a bachelors Degree in Agriculture Education in 1955. He continued his college studies for another year earning his Master Degree with both an Agricultural and School Administration major in 1956. During this time worked at several part time jobs to pay for his school and living expenses.

He started teaching Vocational Agriculture at Woodburn High School in Woodburn, Oregon, that summer and move to Nyssa, Oregon, to teach in that high school in 1958. Five years later he became involved in an effort to start a community college in Malheur County. He became the Vocational Dean at treasure Valley Community College in 1963. He provided the leadership to start many new vocational and technical programs. He moved to Elko, Nevada, to assist in starting the first community college in the state. In 1968 he moved with his wife and family to Longview, Washington, to become the Associate Dean for Vocational and Technical Education at lower Columbia College. He held that position or similar positions at the college for 30 years retiring in 1968.

Concurrent to these experiences, Carl became president to the Oregon Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association, Oregon Vocational Association, and Washington State vocational Directors council, became an Adjunct Professor at Central Washington State University, earned a Doctor's Degree in Education at Washington State University, earned a Commercial Pilots license and was a treasurer of Malheur Federal Credit Union. Carl and Pat his wife have five children and nine grandchildren. They live in Longview and enjoy retirement.