Wednesday, March 26, 2008
My Dad - The Highschool Essay Contest Winner
Here's a clipping that mom found this morning. Dad attended Handley High School in Fort Worth, Texas. He won the senior essay contest through the Fort Worth Advertising Club on the topic "How Advertising Helps to Raise Our Standards of Living". See, EP comes by it naturally! Dad got $35 for his prize. Mom says that was a pretty good chunk of change back then. He would have been 18 in this photo, probably taken in 1948. I can't imagine my dad ever writing an essay; I thought he only knew FORTRAN coding. Anyway, check out the last sentence in the third paragraph from the end if you can read it - "He expects to become a medical foreign missionary when he finishes his schooling". My, how plans change. I'll bet there was a female student with like aspirations who dad was attracted to? June sure changed that plan!
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Dad was a good writer - but his career choice never really highlighted that talent. I have some postcards and letters - somewhere - that Dad wrote when he was away on business (he traveled a lot as he had to go to the ship's docks). They were short, funny and full of warmth. Just like in life, a dry sense of humor that left many of his quips intact and repeated for years. There's a subject for a future blog....
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