San Angelo Junior College

When I graduated from San Angelo High School in 1936 I was in the top group and so was awarded a scholarship to San Angelo Junior College.

San Angelo Junior College was in one building, right across the street from San Angelo High School. It was coed and most of the freshmen were my fellow classmates in high school.
The junior college had a great reputation. No one ever failed to graduate from UT who had the SAJC background.

I planned my two years carefully. I knew I didn’t want to teach. I had seen my family members—unappreciated, underpaid, criticized, and I considered abused in their teaching careers.

I took shorthand, typing, accounting. In addition, I was able to take courses that I considered cultural: Psychology, Spanish, Early Childhood Education, etc. I remember that my research paper in freshman English was “The Violin Makers of Cremona.”

It was while I was going to SAJC that my high school classmate Nelle Taylor and I became close friends. We were enrolled in the same classes and did lots of things together. Concerts. Football games. Picnics.

Her parents often invited me to visit them. When Mother was still teaching in Arden, I think, and Nell and I spend some week-ends in the country with her.