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Show Renascence at the University 69 ond (and last) year at LDS High School. Harold was "stricken" with Madelyn, but while she enjoyed his piano-playing, she didn't view him as a potential boyfriend. Five years later (1922) he was in New York City working and attending Columbia at . re ill! 10 I University. His older sister, Eleanor, was enrolled at the University of Utah. Although supporting herself, she joined a sorority-Alpha Chi-the year after Madelyn and others had initiated it, and thus became acquainted with Madelyn. Eleanor liked Madelyn and wrote her brother about this charming Alpha Chi sister who was vice president of the studentbody, president of their sorority, and editor of The Pen. Eleanor had apparently talked with Madelyn about her brother Harold. Eleanor wrote him that Madelyn, this "most important girl on campus" had told her that she thought the tall, handsome, hard-working Harold was a "swell young man." Already smit ten with Madelyn on the basis of their two previous meetings, Harold went to the dean of the Columbia College in which he was enrolled and told him he was leaving. The dean asked "why in the world would you do that?" Harold replied, "I'm going back to win a girl in Utah." Dean: "Well, do you know her?" Harold: "I've met her twice." Dean: "Does she know anything about all this?" Harold: "No." Dean: I've never heard of such a thing! You're going back there just because of a girl?" Harold: "Yes, I'm going to marry her." Dean: "I'll be damned!" Harold returned to Utah, got a job at the Ogden Iron Works, and started attending the University of Utah. He attended class es all morning, took the Bamberger train for Ogden where he worked all afternoon and evening, and then returned to Salt Lake City. He did his studying on the Bamberger while riding to and from Ogden. At the first opportunity he induced the eager Eleanor to take him over to the Stewart home to meet Madelyn. She was just as attractive as he had remembered, and he asked her for a date. Although she didn't feel any romantic interest in him, she accepted his invitations to the Salt Lake |
