With regards to my nickname, it was assigned to me by the students in one of my classes at Georgia Tech in 1979. On the first day of class one student decided to call me John. I handed him a drop slip. I told the class that I understood that Passafiume was difficult for some of them to pronounce but they could work on it. I then explained to the class that they could address me as Colonel as I was a retired one, they could also call me Professor as that was my title, but they could not call me Doctor as I did not have a PhD. A group of students in the class, after observing my manner in the class, decided that I reminded of that eccentric Colonel who appeared from time to time in the "MASH" TV series, Colonel Flagg, so they decided to give me that nickname and offered to call me that as an alternative. I told them that was fine and they ran with it. Soon everyone was calling me Colonel Flagg. When I was asked to select an email address by the computer folks in the department, I asked for colflagg. They said it was too many characters, eight, as I could only have seven. So, we ended up with colflgg as my email and it has stayed with me ever since as did the nickname.
Most of the folks at the University call me Colonel Flagg as do family members and a lot of folks in the community.
Is there a resemblance?
1 comment:
Guess the kid who called you 'John' learned his lesson the hard way! Great post, Dad! Keep 'em coming.
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