High School  1926

During my senior year at high school I went steady with Dorothy who is now my wife, and from that time on I never had another girl. Our romance was somewhat a stormy one and we would have frequent quarrels. I shall never forget one occasion when I was in my senior year at high school. We had had a very bitter quarrel and had not been speaking to each other for several weeks. One evening I went down to Beth Winklers (her girl friend) who lived right across the street from Dorothy, to study. It was strictly a study session, as Beth had many other interests as far as boys were concerned. I had not been there very long when in marched Dorothy with a book in her hand. She said that she had come to return the book. Upon seeing me she slammed the book down and walked out of the house. As my car was parked in front of Beth's house, Dorothy knew I was inside before she ever entered. It was not long, however, before we had patched up our differences and were on good terms again.


YEAR (FILE ) PICTURE AND SUBJECT
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1927 (4676) John Griffin and Dorothy Israelson
1926 (0109) Ogden High School Queen and Attendants - Dorothy Israelson
1926 (0114) Ogden High School Drama Club - Dorothy Israelson
1926 (0110) Ogden High School Queen and Attendants - Dorothy Israelson
1926 (0108) Dorothy Israelson

One of my best friends while I was in my senior year at high school and during my one year at Weber College was Charles Emmett. He use to take out Beth Winkler and we used to double date quite often. Rolland Morrell also was usually included in the gang and we had some grand times together. Rolland's father who was a doctor had an old Hudson Super Six touring car. It was one of the fine automobiles of its day. When its day passed, however, his father gave it to "Woody" and we use to all pile in it and have a great time.

As long as I can remember, my father has operated a paint and glass business at Ogden, Utah. From the time that I was old enough to be of any help I was required to work down at the store and help out as best I could. One job that I was given early in my life was to clean out the basement of the store. The wallpaper stocks use to be kept in the basement and it was my job to clean it up and sweep the scraps of paper up and take them upstairs. It was a big job which I surely hated to do. Working in the store I learned a great deal about paint, how to set glass, and how to hang wallpaper.

At one time Dad use to run a gang of painters and bid on big paint jobs. He found early that this was a pretty tough business and so quit it and concentrated on trying to sell paint to some farmer or resident and if they wanted someone to paint their house he would give the job to me and to two or three other fellows that use to work with me. My uncle Ed Smith who taught chemistry at the Ogden High School use to work with me on some of these ,jobs during the summer. I recall one instance when we were painting a house. I was up on a step ladder trying to reach a high place and the step ladder slipped out from under me. I grabbed onto the roof and hung on with one foot on the unsteady latter. Ed came to the rescue and I got down without any serious damage. I recall that he was greatly amused at my predicament and use' to sing a little song to me that went something like this: "when you're up, you're up - and when you're down, you're down, but when you're only half way up you're neither up nor down."

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