MORE SCHOOL DAY'S

WELL I HAD A GOOD LOT WRITTEN AND THE SIGN CAME UP THAT THIS COMPUTER NEEDED TO SHUT DOWN SO NOW I THINK IT IS LOST AT LEAST TO ME. WILL TRY TO RE CONSTRUCT WHAT I WROTE PREVIOUSLY.
WANT TO THANK CLAY AND SCOTT FOR THE GOOD HARD WORK THEY DID IN SETTING UP MY NEW DESK AND MONITOR. I LOVE HAVING A WIDER SCREEN AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF SMALL!!! ALSO THANKS TO RYAN AND KARA FOR THE GREAT HEDGE TRIM. I NEVER BACK OUT OF THE DRIVE WAY WITH OUT LOOKING AT THE HEDGE AND ADMIRING THE GREAT WORK DONE FOR ME. I THANK HEAVENLY FATHER FOR ALL OF MY GRAND CHILDREN AND THE SWEET SPOUSES THE MARRIED ONES HAVE. I'D HAVE HUNTED FOR A LONG TIME TO FIND ANY I LOVE MORE THAN EACH OF YOU.

ON WITH MY STORY OUR CLASS PRETTY MUCH STAYED THE SAME AND FRIENDS STAYED LOYAL AS WE WENT THROUGH THE NEXT TWO YEARS OF SCHOOL. THE WAR IN EUROPE WAS EXCALATING AND THERE WAS SOME TALK OF THE U.S. GETTING INVOLVED. I WAS A JUNIOR WHEN ON DEC. SEVENTH NINTEY FOURTY WE'D ALL GONE TO CHURCH CAME HOME AND DAD TURNED ON THE OLD RADIO WHILE DINNER WAS BEING PREPARED. HE CAME IN THE KITCHEN AND SAID THE "JAPS" BOMBED PEARL HARBOR. WE ALL LEFT WHAT WE WERE DOING AND WENT TO LISTEN TO PRESIDENT DELANO ROOSEVELT TELL HOW WE WERE NOW IN THE WAR. THE DRAFT WOULD BE ENFORCED AND ALL ABLE BODIED YOUNG MEN WOULD BE CALLED TO WHICH EVER BRANCH OF SERVICE THEY WERE NEEDED IN.

WHAT A SAD DAY THAT WAS THE NATIONAL GUARD GUY'S WHO WAS TO COME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WAS KEPT IN FORT LEWIS OUT OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON. THAT WAS A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT AS SO MANY [SEVENTY EIGHT] GUYS WHO HAD JOINED THE GUARD FOR ONE YEAR WAS NOW IN FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR. I HADN'T MET VERELAN AS I WAS JUST STARTING TO DATE SOME WHEN THE WAR STARTED SO MISSED MEETING HIM THEN.

WE DIDN'T HAVE BIG CLASSES IN SCHOOL AND THE NEXT DAY THOSE FELLOWS WHO WERE OLD ENOUGH FOR THE DRAFT AND I THINK SOME GETTING CLOSE WENT TO SIGN UP FOR WHAT EVER BRANCH OF SERVICE THEY WANTED. THE AIR FORCE WAS PART OF THE ARMY AND MAYBE NAVY BUT NOT THEIR OWN BRANCH AT THE START OF THE WAR. OUR NINTEEN FOURTY TWO SENIOR CLASS GRADUATED WITH SO MANY OF THE GUY'S GONE IT EVEN MADE OUR CLASS SMALLER. FOR GRADUATION WE AS THE LADIES CHOSE TO WEAR FORMALS AS SOME ALREADY HAD ONE AND WHERE WOULD YOU WEAR A CAP AND GOWN AFTER ANYWAY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FORMAL BUT I DIDN'T WEAR IT AGAIN AS THERE WASN'T ANY GUY'S AND FORMAL DANCES ANYWAY.

IT WAS THAT FALL BEFORE THE WAR BROKE OUT THAT WE WENT TO A BALL GAME. AFTER WE HEADED TO THE BUS SOME FELLOWS DOROTHY HAD DATED CALLED TO HER AND SHE INTRODUCED ME TO THEM.. THEY HAD BEEN OUT TO HER PLACE AND FOUND WHERE SHE WAS SO THEY MET HER THERE. THEY ASK US TO GO HAVE A SANDWICH WITH THEM. WELL THE DRIVER HAD A FEW TOO MANY AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MAIN STREET HE MADE A LEFT TURN IN FRONT OF THE STAR CAFE. WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT LELAND LAW WAS RIGHT THERE AND PULLED ALONG BEHIND US IN HIS POLICE CAR AND PARKED. THERE WAS NO GETTING AWAY. WELL THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN IN TO JAIL AND THE OTHER TWO GUY'S HAD TO CALL AND GET ANOTHER RIDE HOME. LELAND WAS A FRIEND OF THE FOLKS AND HE OFFERED TO GIVE THE GIRLS A RIDE HOME. UP TO THEN HE HAD'NT RECOGNIZED ME SO AS WE GOT IN THE CAR HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND MILLIE'S DAUGHTER AS ONE OF THE GIRLS. HE DID TAKE US BOTH HOME OUT IN THE COUNTRY OF COURSE AND I GOT A LECTURE FROM HIM AND HE PROMISED IF I DIDN'T TELL MY FOLKS HE WOULD. THERE WAS NO WAY OUT BUT TO CONFESS. OH WHAT A LECTURE I GOT FROM MOM. AND BY THE WAY NO SANDWICH THAT NIGHT WITH THE FELLOWS.

WE HAD OUR GRADUATION IN MAY IN THE OLD ST. ANTHONY TABERNACLE AND I DON'T EVER REMEMBER ANY PARENTS WHO WERE NON L.D.S. EVER COMPLAINING ABOUT CHURCH AND STATE. THEY WERE IN ATTENDANCE AS WELL AS OTHER PARENTS ACTIVE AND INACTIVE'S ALIKE. WE GRADUATED WITH OUT QUITE A FEW OF OUR ORIGINAL NUMBERS AS SOME WAS OFF TO WAR. THE GUY'S WHO WOULD BE DRAFTED SOON WENT RIGHT OUT AND JOINED THE NAVY IF THEY COULD BE ACCEPTED OTHERS JOINED THE COAST GUARD SOME WENT INTO THE ARMY. THEN THE DRAFT GOT OTHERS BEFORE GRADUATION.

THAT SPRING I WENT TO WORK AS A CAR HOP FOR NELSON'S BARBEQUE STAND IN ST. ANTHONY. I EARNED A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT BUT THAT WAS A GOOD SUMMER. I DID THE CAR HOP THING AND ALSO WAITED ON THE SMALL COUNTER SOME NIGHTS. MOM AND JOSSINE HAD GONE TO TEXAS TO VISIT BAKER WHO HAD TAKEN A WELDING COURSE IN POCATEELO AND WHEN HE FINISHED THE TEXAS UNCLES HELPED HIM GET A JOB IN THE SHIP YARDS DOWN THERE. MOM ENDED UP HAVING SURGERY WHILE SHE WAS GONE SO THE SUMMER WAS UP TO ME DAD JACK AND REBA. OH YES AND AUNT LEAH DAD'S SISTER. SHE HAD AN OLD FUR COAT AND JACK A HAD A DATE WITH HIS SCHOOL FRIEND AND WHEN HE GOT OUT TO THE CAR THERE WAS AUNT LEAH SITTING IN THE BACK SEAT IN HER FUR COAT AS THE GUARDIAN.. JACK DROVE TO TOWN WENT INTO THE SHOW AND LEFT AUNT LEAH IN THE CAR. I'M NOT SURE WHAT HE DID ABOUT THE GIRL FRIEND AS THERE WASN'T HARDLY ANY PHONES AND THAT WAS BEFORE CELL PHONES A LONG TIME. I'M NOT SURE IF SHE EVER FORGAVE HIM.
I THINK IT WS DEC. NINTEEN FOUTY TWO THAT BAKER CAME HOME TO VISIT AND TELL US HE HAD JOINED THE NAVY. HE COULD HAVE BEEN DEFFERED BUT SINCE SO MANY ABLE BODIED GUY'S WAS GONE ARE GOING HE ALSO DIDN'T WANT DEFERRED.
HE BROUGHT ME A JEWELRY BOX MADE FROM CACTUS THAT I HAVE LOVED 'O' THESE MANY YEARS. MOM WAS SO SAD THAT HE WAS GOING TO WAR. HE WENT TO FARRUGUT IDAHO FOR HIS TRAINING THEN WENT ON A SHAKE DOWN CRUISE TO LEARN THE ROPES OF NAVY LIFE THEN WHEN THEY GOT TO BANGOR WASHINGTON THEY KEPT HIM THERE FOR TWO REASONS. HIS SIGHT WASN'T WHAT THE NAVY WANTED AND HE COULD WELD. THAT WAS THE ONLY BOAT RIDE HE HAD. HE WOULD ON OCCASION GO INTO SEATLE AND ROLLER SKATE AND THAT WAS WHERE HE MET OUR JEANNIE. HE ALSO FELL IN LOVE WITH THAT PART OF OUR COUNTRY AND MADE HIS HOME THERE.
JACK HAD TROUBLE WITH ONE OF THE TEACHERS AG I THINK AND HE WOULD'NT GO BACK TO SCHOOL HE COAXED TO JOIN THE NAVY AND FINALLY THE FOLKS GAVE IN AND SIGNED FOR HIM. HE WENT TO THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA AFTER FARRUGUT. IN HIS STORY HE TOLD OF BEING HELD THERE FOR SOME TIME TILL HE BECAME OLD ENOUGH TO GO TO SEA. HE SAID HE FILLED HIS DUFFLE BAG WITH BOOKS TO READ AND AFTER THE WAR HE DID GET HIS GED.

THAT FALL AFTER GRADUATION O.C.TANNER FROM SAN JOSE VIA SALT LAKE CAME TO DELIVER THE CLASS RINGS TO THE CLASS AND SOME ONE I THINK VIRGINIA ALLEN RECOMMENED ME TO GO TO PALO ALTO AND TAKE A CLASS OR TWO AND HELP HIS WIFE. HE SPENT A LOTS OF TIME IN SALT LAKE RUNNING HIS JEWELRY STORE AND GRACE WAS EXPECTING CHILD FIVE. MOM RELUCTANTLY LET ME GO AND I WAS SIGNED UP FOR ONE CLASS AT PALO ALTO STATE COLLEGE FOR THE FALL SEMESTER. BY THE TIME I GOT THE KIDS FED AND OFF TO SCHOOL DID WHAT EVER NEEDED TO BE DONE BEFORE GOING TO CATCH A TRAIN TO SAN JOSE I WAS ALREADY TIRED AND DIDN'T GET AS MUCH OUT OF SCHOOL AS I SHOULD HAVE. STEVEN WAS BORN ABOUT THE TIME THE SEMESTER ENDED AND I DIDN'T GET TO GO BACK MAYBE AS MY GRADE WASN';T GOOD. I STAYED ON TILL SPRING THEN CAME HOME. ALBERTA HAD GOTTEN HOME FROM HER MISSION IN CALIFORNIA AND ASK ME TO COME TO SALT LAKE AND WORK AND LIVE WITH SHE AND TWO OF HER MISSION COMPANION'S. THE WAR EFFORT WAS IN FULL SWING AND SALT LAKE HAD A RADIO TUBE PLANT THAT MADE RADIO TUBES FOR THE MILITARY. I WAS LIKE THE OTHER THREE GIRLS HIRED ON AND I BECAME A GRID ALIGNMENT PERSON. WE WERE HARDLY ON THE SAME SHIFT. I MOSTLY WORKED THE THREE TO ELEVEN SHIFT. ALBERTA AND GLENN GOT MARRIED THAT FALL IN SEPT. I THINK AND I STAYED ON WITH FERN AND LOLA. LOLA'S SISTER CAME AFTER SHE GRADUATED AND WAS A PROBLEM. I DON'T THINK SHE LIKED ME VERY MUCH SO I MOVED IN WITH BERNICE MILLER WHO HAD ALSO MOVED TO SALT LAKE. SHE JOINED THE ARMY AND LEFT ME SO I HAD FOUND ANOTHER FRIEND AND WE FOUND WHAT THEN WAS A VERY GOOD APT. THIRD FLOOR ON THE CORNER OF THE SOUTH WEST HALL WE LIVED TO GETHER UNTIL I CAME BACK TO ST. ANTHONY. SHE WAS GETTING MARRIED SOON SO THAT WORKED OUT WELL.
I'M TIRED SO WILL CLOSE THIS PART NOW AND DO MORE ANOTHER TIME.