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Catherine Browning McFarlane: My Mother Was A Lady (beloved books, beloved world) The photo that should be here is the one I have framed on my wall. It is a 1930s print of a mother reading to her young children. She is smartly ... |
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Debra Juhl Jones-Miller: RUNNING WITH SIZZORS A ... |
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Elizabeth: School Days my earliest school day memory is elementary school i was in the third grade and jus found out i have A.D.D. ( Attention Deficet Disorder ) it was hard for me ... |
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John Keoni Brown:
dropped out of high school, to help his widowed ... |
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Rev. Theresa M. Lister:
I remember winning the spelling bee every week when I was in the 3rd grade, I remember my first day of school and what I wore, I remember not missing a ... |
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A New Beginning: School Days I can’t remember any of my childhood days except for Kindergraden and maybe first grade. Everything else is like a blury memory. The physical and mental abuse had me traumatized. I ... |
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Paul M. McLaughlin: Paul is the 2nd child from the left side of photo. First child in Paul's handicapped brother, Tommy. The 4th child is Blanch Tyree in Donora, Pennsylvania Paul M. McLaughlin graduated from Donora, Pennsylvania high school in 1970 at the age of 21 - Special Education. Paul’s twin sister Paula graduated in 1967. Paul spent about 6 years ... |
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Tisa: My School Days My name is Tisa, I was born in the city of Rochester, New York on June of 1961. I recollect once in my childhood, an memory from the age of ... |
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charlotte gibbs: Eye Awakening Going to school was awful, because my mother raised us basically, from the bible point of view. We was not able to do anything. Going to the movies, (out of the ... |
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Florence Louise Light Manning Flynn: Memories of School Days She wrote: "I was 15 years old when I learned this....."And God stepped out on earth ... |
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MARVA:
Sobrante Park Elementy, was the school that I attended; as a child and later Madison Middle school,right in our own community |
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Kathleen M. Plona Rogers: Catholic VS Public My life started out attending Catholic Schools. Grades 1 - 3, I attended St. Patricks School. It was only a few blocks from where I lived. I remember walking with my ... |
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Ella Glover: School days I attendend school in Lancaster Calif. We rode a bus to LInda Verde Elementry school and walked to Jr High at Piute Junior. My High School was Antelope Valley High. I ... |
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Betty Endrek: One Year, Our School House Blew Down I grew up in McComb, Ohio on a farm. McComb had a school house that blew down and all the classes were held in upstairs rooms in McComb, and then they decided ... |
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Jason Teague: SCHOOL YARD CHAPTER 3 HONESTLY I HATED BEING IN ELEMENTARY I WAS A BULLY AND NO, GIRLS DID NOT LIKE ME AND I WAS CLUMSY AND A NERD. BUT AS TIME WENT ON I BEGIN ... |
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Ron Westerman: I Experienced WWII in the Panama Canal Zone World War II started. I was eleven so I can remember Pearl Harbor and all the news coming at that time. All of our information came over radios and the movie ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: I Danced in Hollywood and Vaudeville Shows I started dancing when I was three and a half. And at Meglin’s… we were Meglin Kiddies. And in Los Angeles there she had twenty-two studios, and I went to the ... |
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John Matson: I had teachers who put up with me, and they were very good at it. If you carry my childhood through the high school level, all of the lessons I learned through childhood were taught to me by my sisters. And ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: He Used to Call Me Switch Dodger My Dad was the most easygoing person you’ve ever known. He never raised his voice. I only remember him spanking me one time. Boy, that time, I knew I’d been spanked ... |
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Eugene C. Robertson: I Did the Artwork for the High School Newspaper One of my best high school memories was doing artwork for the Hanford High School newspaper, the Meteor. Doing a regular comic strip was the most fun. It made me somewhat of a ... |
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Faye Stone: I Loved Animals, Hated School I remember not liking this one little blonde girl. She lived on my street and we hung out together, but I don’t have strong memories of school. I have a memory ... |
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Nancy Tucker: I Learned to Accomplish Anything I Put My Mind To So, the day before school started was Labor Day. I had not done anything as far as arithmetic was concerned. So my father sat me down on a chair and made out flash ... |
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Virginia Congdon Robertson: I was Always the Youngest in the Class I went to Armona Grammar School for eight years. We didn’t have a kindergarten then. We started in first grade. I started when I was five and a half, so I ... |
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Zora Thompson: SCHOOL WAS ALWAYS A BIG PART OF MY LIFE SCHOOL WAS ALWAYS A BIG PART OF MY LIFE. MY FATHER ALWAYS ENCOURAGED US AND HELPED US WITH OUR HOMEWORK. HE HELPED DOROTHY WITH ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY. WE WERE TOLD NOT ... |
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Tony Channin: I Went to School Until I Was "Asked" to Leave I went to all catholic schools, starting with pre–school back in Washington state. I had catholic education all the way up through eleventh grade, when I was “asked” to leave. ... |
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Vern Tucker: "I Was a Terrible Student!" Scholastically, I was a terrible student. I had a B average in high school and never cracked a book. I remember freshman year of high school, I had to take a geometry ... |
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Sylvia Wall: I Speak Good Finnish In Grayland, where I lived as a kid, there were a lot of Finnish people there and I could talk to them in Finnish. (Sylvia speaks in Finnish). No one here ... |
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Sharon Abernethy: Fun Times in a Beautiful, Small-Town High School Los Gatos high was a lot of fun. I met a lot of people and went to a lot of parties. I worked hard in school. I planned to be a ... |
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Scott Bloom: I Planted Seeds of Friendships that Have Grown Over a Lifetime I don’t remember so much about elementary school. Going into junior high and high school, I was very active in sports. The main sport was football. I started as a running ... |
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Ruth Schimpl-Gremling: Dad Taught Me How to Box Okay, but going back to this one, we moved there and I went to Saint Rose Catholic School and it was about a five block walk and we walked home every ... |
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Ruth Sampson: I Like Accounting Off to School |
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Ron Lyons: I ran out of money after the first two quarters of school My graduate work ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: Even as Kids, we Worked, Worked, Worked My father survived going to the war because ... |
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Robert Berryessa: I Attend Three Different Schools At the time of the war, San Jose was called Garden City. Back then, they had orchards and canneries. I went to three different grammar schools which are all gone now. ... |
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Rikki Willett: I Spent a Lot of Time on Restriction As a kid, I was very protected. My dad in particular was very strict. He really guarded his daughter’s! I tended to be argumentative. Because of my mouth I used to ... |
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Rick James: In High School, I Come Out as a Gay Man In high school I came out as a gay man. That was in 1974, my junior year. I told everyone I was gay. It was shocking for everyone back then. I ... |
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Richard Magen: I Quit School and Run Away from Home; My Dad Dies All of this plays a part in my high school years. I got low grades in school and would barely make it to the next grade; just by the skin of ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: Few of Us Farm Kids Made the Teams in High School Landeck only had eight grades of school so high school we had to go to Delphos. We actually rode the bus to Delphos but prior to that we walked to school ... |
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Ralph Appio: The railroad tracks went through Los Altos and Alta Mesa was a stop on the railroad. I went to Los Altos grammar school. I just went to a party with a fellow that I started school with, Waldo Griffin. We started grammar school, graduated, got inducted into ... |
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Phoebe Katherine Cookson Plassman: I Felt Caught Between Two Different School Systems I just wanted to do some writing and thought it would be interesting. That was the thing that he would do for me. Liberty - Rossen School was out of sync ... |
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Phil Camacho: I Alternated between Expulsions and Class President I went to school; I first started out at Bay View. Then I went to Mission Hill. In fourth grade I got kicked out of Mission Hill. Then I went to ... |
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Peggy McGovern: Mother Said: “If You are a Nurse, You will Always Have a Job” Then I went to high school and I was a good student, but my mother was very strict with me. In penmanship and she would say, “Why don’t you get 100, ... |
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Pauline Dora Zeltner: I was a Wallflower in High School I was…What do you call it? A wallflower in high school. I enjoyed school but I wasn’t popular in the way that some of the girls were, you know, who dated ... |
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Norma Starr: I Went to a One-room School Not in the summertime, but I went to school. At first I went to a one-room school and walked from home up to the prairie which is where they had a ... |
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Monserrat Sanz: I have Great Respect for Teachers After ... |
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Bob Stahl: The Beatles, Vietnam, Timothy Leary, and Eastern Philosophies I went to Franklin elementary school, Warren junior high school, and Newton high school. Newton, Massachusetts was even written up in Time or Life Magazines as one of the “great suburban ... |
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Bob Newman: Dad Dies in a Car Wreck, But Leaves Us Well Cared For I started college at the University of Kansas, but by that time my father had died and my mother had remarried. My father was in the shoe business and he was ... |
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Bertine Hancock: I Was So Eager to go to School They Let Me Start Early Well, I know I wanted to go to school before I could; before I was old enough, and my dad finally talked to the principal and my birthday being in January ... |
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Bernie Miller: Going out for After-School Sports Meant I had to Hitch a Ride Home Every Evening I went to Kings River grammar school which is about four miles north of town. At the time I lived a mile south of town. I walked to school. That was ... |
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Bernard "Barney" Bricmont: Our Money Went Further Back Then We all went to the same grammar school. Recently, we had a 50th anniversary for our eighth grade graduating class. We didn’t move around much in those days. It wasn’t uncommon ... |
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Bequia Cooper: As an Adolescent, I Fought Becoming a Nurse In high school I was an athlete. I did track and gymnastics. I was also in the orchestra. I was always more interested in biology and chemistry than English and history. ... |
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Angelo Grova: Gruelling Jobs, Tough Schools, and a Vision I got a scholarship from Pratt Institute in the 11th grade. They gave a full year of painting classes. That gave me a year of art classes in college. So when ... |
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Analydia Scoggins: My Look at the 60’s: Kennedy, Cuban Missiles, Music and Women’s Lib Every school that I attended was in the city of Matanzas. In wartime especially, we did not have enough gasoline for the car. So many times the car would stop. A ... |
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Aldo Cooper: As a Student I did Average or Better without Much Work I was the type of student who do average or better without much work, and that’s exactly what I did. (Laughter). I wasn’t interested much in academics. When I was fifteen ... |
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Florence Hunter: It took me 40 Years to Graduate from High School, but I Did It! Then, my next memory is I moved to Findlay and lived on Route 12 in the 1900 block. I went into first and second grade of school, at little King’s school, ... |
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Emilia Gallegos: I Excel in English and Algebra I felt that I had ... |
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Elnora Taylor: School Days I wanted to be a beautician. My sister had sent to school and thought I should be a doctor or something like that. She and I went to school at San ... |
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Elizabeth Lucille Rozelle: I Got Blamed for Pranks I Didn’t Do (But I got to sit Next to the Cute Bus Driver) My elementary school was pretty run of the mill. But in high school I sort of started developing my personality, I guess. Our senior class sort of ran in a pack ... |
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Edward John McInerney: I Liked Geometry, Trigonometry and Shooting It wasn’t until high school that I clicked in school. I was pretty much a B student until then. When I got into the higher levels of math, I found them ... |
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Doug and Ginger Levick: My Dad Went to Princeton, and So Did I So I went to school in Princeton, New Jersey. It was a day school. I rode my bike to school through the campus actually. I got to know Princeton pretty well ... |
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Doris Robertson-Polley: Hanford High School Was Quite Literally My Guiding Star I started in first grade and went all the way through. In fact I met the boy who would become my future husband during first grade. We went through school together. ... |
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Denise Morra: It Took Me 20 Years to Get My Degree, But I Did It! When I went to go to high school the crime was so bad in the neighborhood that they put me in a catholic high school in the middle of Manhattan. That ... |
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Debra Hummel: During the 1960s I went to a Two-Room School At that time, the school that I went to was a two-room school. Now we’re talking in the 60s because President Kennedy died, he was shot, and so I mean that ... |
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Darwin Hintz: Eight Grades in a One-Room Schoolhouse My school years were in a rural school. I think that it was all ... |
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Dale Townsend: The Career Struggle with My Mother: Nurse or Foreign Correspondent? ... |
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Chris Beaudoin: I Enjoyed School from the Day I Got There And then, we switched gears and went over to a sort of Catholic school wearing uniforms. The three of us, my youngest sister Cathy and my younger brother Brian and I, ... |
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John Donovan: I Beat Up Football Hall-of-Famer Mike Ditka While I was in school, I was perhaps 80lbs. soaking wet. I was an altar boy in church. They had the altar boys lined up by height and I was at ... |
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Jim McGovern: We knew we were poor because the nuns gave us clothing The first competitive exam I took was to get into high school. This was for Brooklyn technical high school, a public school, but you still had to take an exam to ... |
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Jeremy Lezin: I Partied in High School but Got Serious in College Well, because the neighborhood we moved into was so new there was no school established. This was before 1960. Westlake hadn’t been built, so the kids in the neighborhood and the ... |
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Jean Disher: I Liked Home Economics Well, at high school I still liked Home Ec. a lot so I did that and I played basketball – not on a team per se but I liked some of ... |
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Ginger and Doug Levick: I Went to School in a Norman Rockwell Painting In terms of school, I always had lots of friends. I always had fun, which was good. I thought that was great, and then in my neighborhood I was on the ... |
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George Newell: I Spent More Time Planning Protest Marches than Doing Term Papers In high school I was in the band. I wrestled for the high school wrestling team. I never made the A team because I was at the weight level of the ... |
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George Dunn: Our High School Was Too Small to Field a Football Team Seven or eight we went over there and of course the school there in Hoytville, it was a pretty good size, but the classes – my class had I don’t know, about 20 people in it. Well we graduated I think about 17 or something like that. We played basketball and baseball and didn’t have enough to play football. |
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Frank Maxwell: I Had a Great Life (But In School I was a Bit of a Goof-Off) I just went to high school. I was a goof – off. When it was time to graduate, I lacked one credit. So I had to go back and take another ... |
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Mel Wilcox: I Never Finished my Schooling So, I started school in Fostoria and from there went to Arcadia. In about the fifth grade we moved out in the Vandalia area and that’s where I finished up. But I never finished my schooling. |
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Mattie Leeds: I Was the Kid Who Didn’t Fit In Especially in my school days, the school system didn’t work for everybody. I was the kind of person who didn’t fit in. I’ve just didn’t fit in. I didn’t feel comfortable ... |
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Mary Margaret Donovan: Dad was the Softie; Mom was the Disciplinarian I never went to a high school dance that my parents weren’t chaperoning. My parents had rules in high school where my dad wouldn’t tell us when to come home, he ... |
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Marjorie Hook: I Was Good in Math I went to high school in Fort Collins. Well, it was a little bigger than Fort Laramie and Wyoming but we always had fun. It wasn’t such a big time that ... |
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Walta Lou Wilcox: Art, Music, Sports: I Was Very Active in High School So, I grew up that way and got into – probably was always a tomboy. Then I got into junior high and got into music and I played in the band, ... |
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Vince Tolaio: World War II Interrupted my High School Days I went to Mission Hill School. I don’t remember anything particular about it. It was school. Something you had to do and something you weren’t too sure you wanted to do! ... |
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Mardi Brick: Three Priorities: Dancing, Boys, Music I went to San Jose State and studied education and music. In high school people would ask me what I thought about and I said I had three priorities: dancing, boys, ... |
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Madonna Wagner: In Winter, I Rode A Sled To School I was raised up in a Mennonite home. My parents were Mennonites and my grandmothers wore little white caps and black clothes. They were married in black silk clothes with a ... |
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Lou Urbanski: Lou Learns the Art of Brewing So, that became a reality and we bought the brewery. I was in high school at the time this happened, but I was working in the distributing company all the time ... |
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Larry Coppes: New Schools Followed Me Wherever I Went I went to school here in Findlay. I remember going to Washington school on Main Street. It’s one of the oldest schools in town. Then they built Jacobs school, and that’s ... |
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Kathleen Gambogi: "The apple dryer is a very social place!" When we were very young we had very few friends. When I started high school, the campus was ten miles away. My mother had to drop us off and pick us ... |
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June Rose Hoaglund: I went only through eighth grade I went only through eighth grade, and I went to work for a doctor in McCook. I only earned $3.00 a week. I was a house cleaner. |
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Juanita Marie Schuck-Harris: I’m Still Singing I’ve had a very uneventful life, I must admit. I didn’t do much. In high school, I sang in the choir. We also had a great glee club and we used ... |
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John Urbanski: I Value my Jesuit Education For grammar school ... |
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John Rialson: Hanging Out with the Rich and Soon-to-be Famous I went to Del Mar high school in San Jose, California. For my senior year I went to Judson near Scottsdale, Arizona. That was a wonderful experience. I had my own ... |
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Bud Beaudoin: Recruited by GE Bud received a degree in business from Becker College in 1935. He was recruited by General Electric to join its business training program. |
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Marilyn Patton: I Was a Skinny Little Kid with Glasses Grammar school was good, but in second grade I had an experience that was supposed to terrify me out of ... |
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