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 was always the youngest in the class. My birthday was in March, so you know, your school year that’s the end, so I was just started young. But all my friends were going, so my mother wanted me to go too. I never was an outstanding student. I just got by.

I went to Hanford High School for four years, and I started out with a college course for teaching or something like that and then I changed to business the last two years, and I knew I wasn’t going to college and so a business career. I graduated from Hanford High in 1940, so I started in ’36. It’s kind of hard to say, I don’t know. We had the old high school then. It was a nice big building. It was a lot nicer looking than the building they have today. The one now looks more like a jail. They finally tore that down because they said it wasn’t safe for earthquake or anything like that, which we never really had any earthquake here. And they took them a month to get the pillars down because they were so strong. It had big pillars on either end.