"I have really been well served by the education I received here at John Carroll. The physics education I got was top notch. It really prepared me well for everything I've done in the Air Force and with NASA." Which means -- space. The speaker was Colonel Carl Walz, who spent his first two college years at Carroll, left to obtain an Air Force ROTC commission and complete his undergraduate degree at Kent State, returned to Carroll for a master's degree in solid state physics, and went on to become an astronaut. Col. Walz recounted his latest adventures, aboard the International Space Station, for an audience in the Jardine Room yesterday, recreating much of the presentation later in the evening at a meeting of the national steering committee for Choosing the Greater Good, the university's capital campaign. He also was presented with the Alumni Medal, which he could not receive at commencement exercises last May because he was still serving his mission aboard the space station.

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Carl Walz by Klaus Fritsch, Professor of Physics
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Hear remarks by Carl Walz
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