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It is odd, my dad and his brother were the first to finish college on his side of the family. Both became doctors.
Grandma was a hotel maid, Grandpa was a drunk barber who more often than not did not appear for work.
They had 7 children: 5 boys and 2 girls.
An aunt had some money, and she paid for the first boy to go to college. When he graduated he paid for the second boy to go to college. The third boy wasn’t academic and went into the Army and became a lifer. The 4th and 5th also went to college, paid by the prior graduates. The girls were not expected to, and did not go to college. The last boy to graduate paid back the Aunt, almost 20 years later. Quite a good use of the money, wouldn’t you say? People from the Depression were smart about some things, and I think this was one of them.
My Dad came home from WWII (Pacific theater) and used the GI bill to get a PhD and went on to head a research department at a steel and specialty metals company. Others were engineers in aerospace or rose to high positions in commerce. The women were wives.
That was the time, and I’m glad it’s over. The GI bill was a roaring success, lifting the country out of the post war recession and schooling an entire generation so we were ready for “the space race.” Shame that women were unrecognized until those dastardly libruls and feminazis started making noise about it.
