Ed & Ray Hersman in WWII - Robert Marks.org

5.4. LIVING IN CLEVELAND Ed & Ray Hersman in WWIIhere. The car repairs had taken all our money so we decided we had bettergo home.Without stopping to sleep I started at Albuquerque and drove throughhalf of New Mexico, the Texas Western Panhandle, Oklahoma and Arkansasto Memphis, Tennessee. Peggy went to sleep and missed Texas and Oklahoma.We drove from Memphis to Chattanooga where we spent the nightand the next day we arrived home.5.4 Living in ClevelandBeing broke is a great incentive for action, so Peggy and I decided to moveto Cleveland where I would get my old job back at B & W. I worked thereabout a year and we went back to school at W.V.U.Peggy worked part time at the hot lunch program, at the same time sheworked towards her master’s degree. I went back into the mining engineeringschool.We had bought an old car, a 1939 Buick. This was our first car. It rangood but otherwise was always on the verge of falling apart.We stayed in a real rat-trap of an apartment near the campus. I finishedup a very enjoyable summer of surveying both on top of and under theground. I now had my degree (B.S.) in mining engineering. This was in1952.There were few jobs available in mining engineering in 1952. The onlyengineers who obtained positions had dads or relatives pretty high up in themining company.I obtained a position as a mechanical engineer with my old firm Babcockand Wilcox. 11 Ed Hersman’s manuscript ends here.92