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I was born on October 8th, 1919, on a farm in Pulaski County, Indiana. I grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and graduated from High School in January 1938. I skipped one half of the 4th grade and thus graduated a semester early. Most of this time was during the great depression in the US. However, I was lucky in that when I was 16 years old, I got a job in the railroad station in South Bend. I worked in the snack bar and news stand in the passenger terminal. I was the only employee from 4 to 11pm. I was paid $1 a night and got all I could eat. I held this job for 4 years - my last two years in high school and the two years after. In the spring of 1938, one afternoon, while helping my father repair an old Essex automobile, a man dressed in a suit and tie, walked into the back yard and asked me my name. When I told him, he asked me to consider coming downtown and enrolling in the South Bend College of Commerce. I told him that I didn't have any money and besides no one in my family ever went to a college. He said that he knew that I had a little job and they would let me pay by the week or the month. At the urging of my mother, I did this. I would get up in the mroning

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