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I can only imagine what my college work would have been with out a typewriter, I established several USDA flood control projects while with the CCC camp and Soil Conservation Service. I often made preliminary surveys with out clerical help. There were reports while on assignment in foreign countries, where clerical help was not available. A shortage of technical staff and language problems made it necessary to write my own reports.
I have to confess, that even I had a hard time reading my hand writing when it got cold. My typewriter made it possible for others to read what I wrote. My spelling has improved, when I wrote by hand I might be able to make A look like an E or an F, and if it were type written it had better be correct.
I worked all summer in 1924 to save $60.00, and bought a Remington portable typewriter. In 1928 I married an English and typing teacher, who taught the same typing class that I had taken 4 years earlier. You can understand why I was especially careful when I wrote love letters to her.
Verna is still of special help when I do this writing. How can I look up a word in the dictionary, or even get my computer to spell, if I can't even get the first two letters right? I have just ask her how to spell curriculum, I can't find it under CA or CO. she says, "look under CU."
Participation in extra curricular activities while in High School was difficult for me. It was necessary for me to work mornings and evenings at home. I did get my parents to let me play foot ball my senior year, but this was not very successful, the Crawford team won the western Nebraska championship in 1923, the year that I played, but I was not experienced and played on the second team most of the time. I took the hard hits from the backfield of the first team.
I had one experience that I will probably never forget. Working in the manual training class was a friend that liked caramel candy, one day he gave me a piece, I liked it so well that I gave him a nickel to get me some, he would give it to me at the next manual training class. He never did come back to class, and I lost a nickel. I don't know whether it was because I lost the nickel, or that I didn't get the caramel candy that made me remember it all these years.
I gradated in June 1924, I did have an opportunity to show some of my skills, the seniors put on a play the week of graduation. A request was made for members of the class to provide some entertainment between acts. I volunteered to play my banjo and harmonica. This was a novelty act that was new to the audience, and I got a good hand. This act brought me a lot of attention. I guess I needed this to satisfy my ego.
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Metzger Memories
