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Show 24 Eyring greatly relieved, had learned a great lesson about resisting peer pressure and about what was expected of him by his father, family, and the community. Eyring attended his eighth grade year at the district school in Pima. One day he came late for school and interrupted the lesson his teacher, Miss Edna Ledwich, was giving. Miss Ledwich decided to make an example of him and told him before he could leave that day he had to memorize and recite ten verses of Thomas Gray's "Elegy" before the class. Eyring, determined to convince his teacher that he was not a rebellious trouble maker, decided he would do more than memorize ten verses and so he learned the entire poem. make his presentation. on. At the end of the day, he was called on to After reciting the first ten verses he continued Miss Ledwich, very surprised, had to tell him twice to sit down, since she had heard enough. class. Eyring was dismissed with the rest of the That year he received sixty-two merits and graduated as valedic- torian of his class. He remembers with fondness the graduation cere- monies and his class singing "What is so lovely as a Day in June, a Day in June," and Miss Ledwich presented him a book of poems by Sir Walter Scott, entitled The Lady of the Lake. He has shown it with pride to friends ever since. The next year, Eyring entered his freshman year of high school at the Gila Academy in Thatcher. travel by horse back to school. Winston passenger car. After doing his chores at home he would Later he rode in a large bus-like At Thatcher he was elected freshman class presi- dent but gives credit to his able vice-president, Ada Farnsworth, for any success the class had that year. Eyring was very athletic in school. Even though he was only five |
