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UMR faculty member celebrates 50 years on the job
One month into his career as a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Dr. Harry “Hank" Sauer could almost feel the sense of urgency in the air. It was October of 1957, and the Soviet Union had just launched the world’s first satellite, a basketball-sized sphere known as Sputnik I.
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