A Little piece of Paradise… College Hill, Ohio - SELFCRAFT

with my furnace job and a little clerical job for Dr. Carter I was able to keep solvent. I did land a jobworking for a builders supply company the summer after my freshman year. It paid thirty dollars perweek which was good for those days. The summers after my sophomore and junior years I worked for anIce and Coal Company-seventy two hours each week for $37.50. That was really good pay those days butthe muscle conditioning was terrific. When I went back for my sophomore year I went out for footballagain but had to quit when Chet Pitser told me I couldn’t leave from practice at six o’clock. I had to be onthe job at Ogden at six to keep my job and couldn’t afford to pay a substitute like some of the others.I majored in History and Social Sciences and also n Mathematics. I had a minor in psychology andphilosophy I wanted to attend law school when I graduated. I planned everything towards that goal. WhenI graduated in June of 1930 I had made arrangements through a friend of the family to work in a largecorporation law office. The head of this office had a hobby of helping young legal aspirants through lawschool in this manner. It was 1930 and the depression. About the middle of the summer the lawyer calledme in to tell me that his retainer had been cut in half and he therefore would not be able to pay a salary tocover law school fees. He did offer the opportunity to work in the office for experience and to use the lawlibrary. I had been working that summer for the U. S. Engineering Corps. As a draftsman. I thought aboutcontinuing there but when all of the vacationers returned they wanted me to join a field team of surveyors.That of course would have been impossible to permit me to attend Chase Law School as I had planned asan alternative. I quit the job and started a long hunt for another. Time for enrolling in Chas passed withoutme because I did not have the funds.I took a job with the Miami Chapter of Delta Upsilon to solicit contributions for the new house thatwas being built. I traveled throughout Ohio, Michigan and Indiana with less than success on acommission basis.My next job was with the Lily-Tulip Cup Co. selling paper specialized to drugstores and departmentstores. This was not lucrative enough to keep my family since I was the principal supporter of my mother,father and two sisters who were still in school.In 1932 I took a job with Western and Southern Life Insurance Co. working at debt collecting andselling insurance. This was pretty good for most of a year but as the depression deepened lapses outranthe writings. I quit and took a position with Reliance Life of Pittsburg. That was good for a while but asprospects became harder to find I finally gave that up.It was while I was working for reliance that I tried to sell my former High School Principal a policy.He wasn’t interested in more insurance but he was interested in someone who could teach a practicalcourse in Sales and Advertising. I took the job and taught three classes each night four nights each week.It helped keep food on the tale and was some of the most interesting work I have done. I kept that job foreleven years.In the summer of 1934 I heard that a position for a business and social science teacher was open atNorth College Hill High School. I applied and was hired by the school board. I had been taking someclasses at U.C. on Friday nights and at Miami and Ohio U. in the summer for a master’s degree ineducation and economics.After teaching for four years I was made a teaching Principal of the High School because I had beendoing a good bit of the organization work for the Superintendent who was also the Principal... After thefirst year as Principal I relinquished all but my advanced math classes and devoted most of my time toadministration. This I continued until I resigned n 1947.In 1943 my mother died and my deferment in the draft was terminated. The school board wanted toappoint me a superintendent but the draft board said no and I was drafted. Then I was rejected as a 4-Fbecause of my age and my sight. I returned as Principal because the board had hired a retiring U.C.professor to be superintendent. In 1947 difficulties between the Supt. And a new board of ed. Developedcausing a student/parent strike which lasted forty days in February and March. I was able to get theschools opened by having the North Central Assoc. threaten to withdraw the high school charter unlessthe entire board resigned and turned the school over to the Probate Court, which they did.I had had enough of the strife so I resigned and took the position of Assistant Registrar at MiamiUniversity. The next year I was appointed Associate Registrar mainly because I had computerized the257