![]() We lived up in Conway, and I had a very reasonable kind of boyhood. He went down to Little Rock for the week, and came back on the weekends. Louis, I think, primarily, and then finally my grandfather and he got together, and he worked at his grain mill. And then, after that, came back into the grain commodities business in St. He went over to France, and was elevated quickly, because of being the only person there that had any training, so he became a captain in the Marine Corps. He had been to Culver Military Academy, and being kind of a bad boy, was forced to stay an extra year, and then they started drafting, or trying to get people into the Marine Corps, and they picked him. He was in the Marine Corps in the First World War. We had a - We had a big old house set back from the road on Donaghey Avenue, 777 Donaghey, and we had some - My father had pretentions to be a country gentleman, so we had some cows out in back that other people took care of, of course, certainly not my father. What sort of house did you have when you were growing up? Raleigh: I don't really quite know what to say about it. It was a town north of Little Rock about thirty miles. What was it like for you when you were still growing up in Little Rock? It sounds like you knew a lot of the activities that your grandparents were involved in. Both my sister and I had really dreadful allergies, and Arkansas was not the right place, so they moved, and it really made a big difference. We moved, actually, from Arkansas when I was eleven years old to Scottsdale, Arizona. My mother had been a teacher before they married. My father was the vice president of the grain mill. She was quite a woman, very involved with the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, all that stuff. Actually my grandfather owned a grain mill in Little Rock, and my grandmother was a well-educated teacher. Who were they, and what did they do? Raleigh: Doel:Īnd I know that you were born on Augat Little Rock, Arkansas, but I don't know about your family and your parents. It's in Honolulu, but the campus is called Manoa. ![]() ![]() Disclaimer: This transcript was scanned from a typescript, introducing occasional spelling errors. Please bear in mind that: 1) This material is a transcript of the spoken word rather than a literary product 2) An interview must be read with the awareness that different people's memories about an event will often differ, and that memories can change with time for many reasons including subsequent experiences, interactions with others, and one's feelings about an event. Please contact us for information about accessing these materials. For many interviews, the AIP retains substantial files with further information about the interviewee and the interview itself. If this interview is important to you, you should consult earlier versions of the transcript or listen to the original tape. ![]() The AIP's interviews have generally been transcribed from tape, edited by the interviewer for clarity, and then further edited by the interviewee. This transcript is based on a tape-recorded interview deposited at the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics. This transcript may not be quoted, reproduced or redistributed in whole or in part by any means except with the written permission of the American Institute of Physics.
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