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Show - 2 0 2 - expected? almost awaited. All except one of his aunts and uncles were s t i l l a l i v e , as were his four brothers and his sister. His only direct confrontation with death occured when his father had died, suddenly and unexpectedly, in the early summer after the boy's second year of high school teaching, just three months a f t e r the b i r t h of his f i r s t daughter. His father's last rational words to him had been a question: "How is the little baby?" The teacher's relations with his father had improved after his marriage. In fact, It had begun a few months before his marriage? when his father had stopped by one night at his room in the boarding house near the university in Salt Lake, where the boy was working toward his M.A. degree. His father had recently been appointed Chairman of the State Planning Commission, set up by the governor, to administer funds for public works to be financed by the Roosevelt administration as anti- Depression measures. He had been given leave from the College to perform these duties. He did not move the family to Salt lake, but simply rented a room for himself, where he stayed during the week, returning the eighty miles to his home on weekends. His son seldom saw him at this time, because both were busy during the week, and his father was away from Salt Lake from Friday afternoon until late Sunday evening. This night, though, his father obviously had something on his mind he |
