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would personally guarantee that it would be tomy advantage to attend Alma College.Apparently some of my friends had toldthe business manager that I not only did thephotography for the Redford High School paperand yearbook but also that I had won numerousawards and competitions as a photographer.I started in photography when I was tenyears old after I had purchased a "photo kit" fortwenty-five cents and three box tops fromKellogg's “Corn Flakes.” I took to photographylike a duck takes to water. By the age of twelve,yes, twelve, I was the photographer for a localultraconservative newspaper in Detroit calledThe Redford Record. We were among the first topoint out that the Communists were about topoison all Americans by putting fluoride in thedrinking water. By sixteen, I was on the staff ofUnited Press. This is before it became UPI andbefore Associated Press was a contender. Icarried around a 4X5 Speed Graphic camera,twenty film holders and forty flashbulbs. At eachnews event, you had to be careful not to use upyour film or flashbulbs. Each shot had to count. Iworked after school and was the only full-timeemployee on the night shift. I had a list ofavailable freelance photographers throughout thestate but I was in charge of all news coverage inthe state of Michigan. My assignments came10