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Show 25 feet eight and one-half inches tall, he played center on the high school basketball team. continuously. year. The reason is that he played very hard and worked In fact he played every minute of every game his senior The team won the championship of the area. The intense competi- tive spirit of Eyring was also manifest on other occasions. During the senior day track and field meet sponsored by the high school, Eyring spent a lot of time organizing the events and getting his fellow students to participate. One of several pretty girl students asked why he wasn't going to get involved himself and before the conversation was over he was in the mile race. He had not trained the slightest for the race but accepted the challenge. He ran very well, being outdistanced by only one other runner in the last few yards of the race. The extreme exertion for such a sustained distance left his body almost in shock. For several days afterward he suffered extreme pain all over and could hardly move. But this was characteristic of Henry Eyring, always giving the best he had, no matter what the challenge. Academically, Eyring also excelled in high school. He had straight A's except for a half unit of theology and a half unit of military training in which he got B's. It was in high school that he had his first chemistry class, but he excelled in mathematics. Eyring enjoyed a lot of things, though, and even before high school he had read Musick's fourteen volume historical novels on the history of the world and even English translations of such classics as Homer's lljgg_and Egbgggyfi. When graduation time came in the spring of l9l9, it was announced in a student assembly that Adelia Moody of Thatcher, who had seventeen units of A, would be valedictorian for the class. Leo Cluff, one of Eyring's best friends, raised the question as to why Henry Eyring had not been |
