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to see the President of the School Board on Saturday. They told him
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ished telling us of our predicament, one of the fellows said, “We went to
see Mr. X, the President of the School Board on Saturday. We told him
what we had done. He said he would have done the same thing.” The
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hard, dismissed us from the meeting, and he left the building. The mat-
ter was never heard about again. This experience taught me something
important. When you are right and some higher authority is telling you
that you are wrong, go above the authority and present your case. Don’t
just assume that right will prevail.
In the spring, the Daughters/Sons of the American Revolution
sponsored a patriotic oratorical contest for senior class members. Six of
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special thing about this victory was that I was told no one in Salt Lake
City had, until that time, ever won the contest in all three of the ninth,
tenth and eleventh grades. I was pleased that, when my brother Gord
came along two years later, he duplicated my feat. If your record is to be
matched – let it be by your sibling!
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suaded the class leadership to charge $1 admission rather than the usual
50¢. During the school year, we sponsored some after school movies in
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to a close we discussed a class gift to the school. We already had the
money accumulated. Classes prior to us had had to beg students for a
contribution in order to give a class gift to the school. We didn’t!
At the high school graduation, the program was set up like a
court to judge the worthiness of our class to graduate. A number of stu-
dents made speeches. I was the “judge” of the ceremonies.
High school was one of the high points of my entire life. True, I
had bitter disappointments in ROTC and my inability to play football.
However, I did well academically and had a set of accomplishments in
leadership positions. In addition to being president of the senior class,
I was president of the Sergeant’s Club and the Cosmopolitan Club. I

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