Kenneth W. Baldridge, Pleasant Grove, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 30, 2005: Saving the Legacy tape no. 723

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KE ETH W. BALDRID E PRIL 0 200 b dismi sed and the girl would have left by then having tak n the roll and v rifi d that we were there. The prof was still writing on the board. So we'd go up the stairs and there were the exit doors at the top of the stairs. So after checking to make sure he was still writing on the board, we'd just go on out the doors, those of us that wanted to do that. There were two or three others of us, I suppose, besides me. Needless to say I flunked out. I did go to my navigation class and my seamanship class and I got As in those. But my academic subjects, I flunked them. So they sent me back to Great Lakes for some reason (laughs). Now, going back to COP. I'll tell you about one civilian encounter I had that was rather interesting. I was in an English class and sitting next to a very, very attractive young lady named Jeanette Morrison. I got in conversation with her and found out that my mother had known her grandmother. So we got to be friends and I asked her for a date one night and she didn't accept. She had something else going on. I never got up the nerve to ask her again. Later, she married a fellow that was in the room right next door to mine in the dorm where they had us Navy guys billeted. She later divorced from him and got into the movie industry. She became known as Janet Leigh and married Tony Curtis. [Editor's note: Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927- October 3, 2004), was born Jeanette Helen Morrison in Merced, California, the only child of Frederick Robert Morrison and Helen Lit a Westergard. She studied music and psycho log, at the University of the Pacific until she was "discovered" by a movie executive while visiting her parents in Northern California.] BEC: Is that right? KEN: Yes, so that was kind of fun getting to talk with her. 16