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Show DALE H. WEST June 23, 2000 dentist said,"Oh, we can put a thing on that, and we can get it down. It'll be fine." Then the other doctor in charge said, "We're not doing any beautification on our soldiers." So they wouldn't do that. I went in about the 6th of January of 1943, and got out about the 25th of January of 1946. WIN: You got out and you went back to teaching? DAL: I went back to Farrer Junior High in the Fall, but I went to school at BYU until then. I started that Fall at Farrer Junior High and taught one year, and then I was back starting my thesis. WIN: Okay. You went back to finish your thesis at theY. Were teaching then? Did your mentor get you back to begin teaching at the Y? DAL: That was when he got me in, when I got back. He wanted me to know that if I got my master's degree and taught there-my bachelors and masters-it would be called inbreeding. He said, "We can't stand for that, so would you get your degree some place else? WIN: Is this your masters or your doctors? DAL: Masters. So I went to the University of Southern California. I was stupid. I should have said, "Well, I'll just have this. I can't do it all over." But, like a fool, I went down to Southern Cal. I went in the summers and got my masters. They let me transfer quite a few credits from BYU. Then, when I got through with that, I went to the University of Colorado and took a year's sabbatical, and b_ad two summers besides that, finishing everything except my thesis. I couldn't do my thesis while I was teaching, so it took me some time. My years between bachelors, and masters, and doctors were many. WIN: So you would come back here and teach at BYU, and then you'd go summers over to Boulder occasionally to work on your doctorate? 21 |
