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Show page 35 f a l l and winter months. Mr. Westbrook had class, too, of a sorts; he had inherited the foundry, and had a calm administrative a t t i t u d e rather than the fierce intensity of his father, the founder. A long time passed before I learned the real meaning of c l a s s , that i t means more than a high style of manner or dress, that i t means more than any social stratum whose members share similar economic, p o l i t i c a l , or cultural c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s . I have come to the conclusion that class also means adaptability and development in one's. ox\m r i g h t , with equilibrium in the face of l i f e ' s changes, and courage in the face of l i f e ' s fears. We then become a l l "of a c l a s s ". The Sundown Kid, at college, showed me the beginning of the long road to t h i s d i s t i n c t i o n ; he purposely failed his draft deferment examination. He struggled x-Tith himself awhile, renouncing t h i s or that thing he d i d n ' t like. Some remark of his in Economics caused Prof Tomlin to remark, "It is a time-honored device of the privileged to change values whimsically." Coach Mayfield played down the prof's wit with a l l his might, but The Sundown Kid shortly thereafter turned in his number 32 jersey for good. Nightfall he went out and walked alone across the stadium at the 50-yard line. His rejection was magnificant. He held his head high, similar to Barrymore in Hamlet. But he seemed older, there in the moonlight, and his values did begin to change. The campus became different to him. The past was a quiet, receding past, he said, and scarred Old Hall seemed to have |