Part | Four SyStemS Practice The Gutsy Few My phenomenal journey started in the early 1960s. I was studying mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley when Professor Walter B. Henning, the world's author- ity in middle-Persian studies, chose me to help him develop a program in middle- Persian culture. That experience re-formed my understanding of culture and its significance in shaping human systems. After two years of working with Henning, I knew I could not be merely a mechanical engineer anymore. Fortunately, Berkeley