School Education Completing the Ninth Grade meant the end of our Public School Education. This last year, for me, opened many avenues of learning I had not previously enjoyed. A completely fresh interest was aroused, particularly in History and Literature. What had been a rather tiresome lot of words suddenly came alive as a background for the Political and Cultural life of our own day. Works of early American Poets and Essayists took on a new meaning and even a glimpse into the words of Shakespeare began to stimulate our imagination and thinking. The final class held on that last day of School was in Literature and "Portia", in the Court Room Scene of "The Merchant of Venice", declared: "The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath: It is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes". In After Years Soon after leaving School we became aware that our education had only begun. We began to realize that there was a world outside the narrow sphere in which we lived - a world that would demand a wider knowledge than w^e had gained. A few of our former classmates would gain this knowledge in Schools of Higher Education - others