WLC top management was very keen on having regular reports submitted from the operating departments, especially annual reports that summarized the accomplishments for a given year, and the projected goals and accomplishments for the coming year. This is a JVM example of such a report. This Original Copy of my Report includes a list of the eight sites that were being supported across the U. S. which had WLC hardware installed. The Archival DVD Folder named 1973_WLC ENG Accomplishments_74 OBJ contains a full set of JPEG-Image scans for this Report; 15 files in all. JVM Note: I should inform the reader that, after a series of frustrating delays, we shipped a W301 OMR Sheet Scanner to the University of New South Wales in late 1973, and I departed for Australia in late December 1973 (along with my wife) to head up the installation effort. A competent technician, Larry Miller (with his wife Sandy along) had departed a couple of days, or so, ahead of us. Our shipping airline, 'Flying Tigers', however, managed to lose the large wooden crate containing the WLC scanner somewhere along the way. This was a disaster in the making as Larry was already in Australia, and we were on our way also. Somewhere in my dusty archives, I have a cassette recording of my 'obscene in the extreme' conversation with the CEO of Flying Tigers, whom I managed to get on the phone with me, and I expressed my anger and frustration with their screw-up. I momentarily delayed my outbound-segment of the flight to Australia (New Zealand, first, actually: see below) with a stop at the San Francisco Airport to see if I could locate the missing cargo. After quite a tussle with officials there, I was finally permitted to go into the large cargo-storage shed or warehouse at the airport, and lo! There was the wooden box, high up on a rack, stored next to bale after bale of Indian hemp! The staff assured me that it would be on the next Qantas Cargo flight to Sydney - which it was! Another crises averted. Thus, when the equipment finally made it to Kenningson, NSW, the actual installation at the UNSW for Professor Max Dunstan's test-scoring operation went very smooth, and Larry and his wife, and my wife and I had some leisure time to do some sight-seeing in the Sydney area. My wife and I had already spent about a week prior to arriving in Sydney, with a wonderful driving tour of both North and South Island, New Zealand, recovering from wrecking a rental car on North Island, as I was not yet competent in driving on the 'wrong side of the road'. We spent New Year's Eve, 1973 in a chef's house in Queenstown, NZ, because all the motels/hotels were packed solid with revelers who already had made their reservations along ago. Following the UNSW's WLC Scanner installation, my wife and I traveled to Brisbane and further north - nearly got washed away in a freak flood - and we had to make a mad dash back to Sydney. Next we flew to Ayers Rock in the Outback of Australia, and had more exciting adventures. The Australia 727 Pilot even let me into the cockpit to fly the commercial liner for a while, alarming my wife no end. When it was finally time for her to return to Iowa City to resume her studies at the U of I for a degree in Speech Pathology, I remained behind and traded my return-ticket to the U. S. for an "Around the World" 2-month itinerary taking me to the Island of Bali, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, and Greece, before arriving home in shortly after the spring of 1974. I caught parathyroid in either Nepal or India, and I was very, very ill by the time I reached Iran. Fortunately, an Iranian doctor treated me with a powerful medication, to keep me going until I got home. My long, shaggy hair, and dark-brown beard made me momentarily unrecognizable! As a final comment, as I review the WLC Engineering Department Goals and Objective for 1974 in the above report, my memory is that the goals/objectives were substantially met. Apparently, the competent WLC staff didn't need me around at all! Incidentally, my boss at the time (e.g. late 1973), Pete Wahl, was not overly thrilled when I advised him prior to my departure on the UNSW installation trip of my intention to take two or three months off afterwards for my odyssey, but my persuasion was that I had hardly had a day off in the past seven years, and "I was just catching up!". The argument sold! I started out from Iowa City in late Dec. 1973 with $5,000 in Travelers Checks, and returned in March with under $100 remaining. That's a lot of traveling for the money - ten times this cost today!