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5.1. BACK TO CLEVELAND Ed & Ray Hersman in WWIIto take. I know now I should have taken more time out between the armyand school.5.1 Back to ClevelandOne day another man and I decided we had had enough so without furtherado we jumped in the Kaiser and drove to Cleveland. We found a room nearEast 79th St. on Euclid Ave. and hunted for work. I obtained a job in theFisher Body Plant on Coit Road. I do not know where my room mate BobJohnson got his first job.I was laid off at Fisher Body after about a month. At the time there wasgreat concern about a post war depression and without union seniority I waslet out. I found a job working with spinning machines on aluminum pots andpans at the Monarch Aluminum Company, but left due to the low pay.Bob and I both obtained a job at a machine shop which made smallbelt conveyers, but we found better jobs as draftsmen at Bobcock & Wilcox,who’s Cleveland office was just off the Public Square.Bob and I did not get along very well as room mates. He wanted to goout every night and drink. I went a few times with him, although I didn’tdrink, and then refused to go anymore. We parted company. Bob later letthe drinking get the best of him and became a hopeless alcoholic. Bob wasfrom Glenville and I went to school with him there. He worked in Clevelandbefore we went into the army and I was with him when he drank his first beer.I worked at B & W until the fall when I went back to W.V.U. My draftingwork at this company involved using descriptive geometry and trigonometryto design boiler tubes. I became very proficient at this and was rated one oftheir best men.89
5.2. WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Ed & Ray Hersman in WWII5.2 West Virginia UniversityAt W.V.U. I switched from chemical engineering to more active mining engineering.At first my grades were low but as I became more interested inthe work they were better and better.I started dating Peggy occasionally but she had found another boyfriend.I dated some other girls but nothing serious developed. Peggy graduated inthe spring and went to a hospital in Wheeling to work. I obtained a job atE.I. Dupont de Hemours Corp. at Belle, West Virginia and stayed with afamily named Conley in Charleston.5.3 Getting MarriedI drove up to see Peggy in the Kaiser about every weekend. After a periodof this we decided to become married in August.5.3.1 A Comedy of ErrorsOur marriage in August was sort of a comedy of errors.John Hamilton was my best man, Bob Hensley and my brother Ray wereushers. We were to be married in the Reedsville Methodist Church and thereception would be at Fairfax, Peggy’s home.We went through the rehearsals O.K.The first mistake was a mess up with the tuxedos. I was as thin as arail while Bob Hensley was fat. Somehow we got our tuxedos crossed and hewore mine and vice versa.The wedding ceremony went off O.K. but when we went to get in thecar there wasn’t any. The Kaiser had broken down in front of the churchand my ushers and best man were working on it. My brother-in-law HowardArbogast brought his car and drove us to the reception.I started to change clothes to work on the car but John Hamilton andBob Hensley talked me out of it. Ray found the trouble with the car and90
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