Your Grandpa sounds like my kind of guy. I watch the Noles (football and baseball) whenever I can, eg caught the Maryland game last week. And, I plan to be in Tally later this month to see Bobby Bowden officially return to FSU (probably not in a kilt though) at the NC State game. 
Your mom and dad may have been contemporary with us. We attended from '65 - '69 and I was in graduate school and worked at the Computing Center until 1979, and then moved to Los Alamos.
I changed my signature. The old one was too ridiculous.
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