A Basket of Chips: An Autobiography

Basket of Chips, page 122

A Basket of Chips June Rose completed the high school in three years and the principal said she could have done it in a half year less, but it would have been harder work and a bad time to enter college. June is now devoted to music and it is her desire to make it her life work. She has done splendidly in making jewelry, and could do good work in my line. She also writes well. Heber James, our youngest, shows traces of both grand- parents, and looks more like my brother Fred and sister Rose than like either of his parents. He has very little interest in artistic lines although he did above average work in studying with me. Science interests him more than anything else espe- cially along the lines of radio. He is lacking in aggressiveness and has inherited both his mother's and my own timidity. During our last summer in Cali- fornia I went with him to look up the fruit situation in San Leandro. When the season was ready he rode out on his wheel to secure work as a picker, but returned with no engagement. A day or two afterwards Ruth and June went to the same places and secured plenty of work for him and me too if I wished it. I did some picking for the sake of exercise and to be near the children. James has his mother's ready answer and happy disposition. I expect big things from him. He is now through high school and will continue his studies at the University of Utah. 1928: June is married to Kyle Lyon and they are school teachers, having served one year in Littlefield, Arizona, and two years at Parker, Idaho. Then a scholarship to California for a Ph.D. James is completing his graduate work at the University of Utah, and expects to get his M.S. degree at the close of the school year in June. 1931 -A Ph.D. from Ames in Organic Chemistry. He married a lovely college student, Frances Brown. They are living in Ames. 122