BLACKSBURG, Va., Feb. 25 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Four decades after walking into The Hotel Roanoke as a young veterinarian hungry for continuing education, Terry Swecker walked to the podium to accept the Paul F. Landis Veterinarian of the Year Award - and told the room the real education had never been in the sessions.
"The real education was the people in this room," said Swecker, an emeritus professorat Virginia Tech. "For any of you youngsters here, please takeadvantage. Especially find a gray hair or no hair, becausethey'veprobably seenit, done it - whetherit'sa case, a client, any situation."
Swecker, a member of the college's inaugural Class of 1984 who retired in J...