I didn?t want to go into the foreign service and I had never even seen the Georgetown campus when I was at Boys Nation* but I wanted to go back to Washington; Georgetown had the best academic reputation in the city; the intellectual rigor of the Jesuits was legendary and fascinating to me; and I felt that I needed to
oil painting know all I could about international affairs* and that somehow I would absorb all I could learn about domestic issues just by being in Washington in the mid-sixties. I thought I would get in* because I was fourth in my class of 327* my College Board scores were pretty good* and Georgetown tried to have at least one student from every state (an early affirmative action program!). Still* I was worried.I had decided that if I got turned down at Georgetown* I?d go to the University of Arkansas* which had an open admissions policy for Arkansas high school graduates* and where the smart money said aspiring politicians should go anyway. In the second week of April* my acceptance notice from Georgetown arrived. I was happy* but by then I?d begun to question the wisdom of going. I didn?t get a scholarship and it was so expensive: $1*200 for tuition and $700 for room and fees* plus books* food*
oil paintings and other expenses. Although we were a comfortable middle-class family by Arkansas standards* I was worried that my folks couldn?t afford it. And I was worried about being so far away and leaving Mother and Roger alone with Daddy* though age was slowing him down. My guidance counselor* Edith Irons* was adamant that I should go* that it was an investment in my future that my parents should make. Mother and Daddy agreed. Also* Mother was convinced that once I got there and proved myself I?d get some financial help. So I decided to give it a shot.I graduated from high school on the evening of May 29* 1964* in a ceremony at Rix Field* where we played our football games. As fourth-ranked student* I got to give the benediction. Subsequent court decisions on religion in public schools* had they been law then* might have taken us prayer leaders off the program. I agree that tax money should not be used to advance purely religious causes* but I was honored to get in the last word at the end of my high school years.My benediction reflected my deep religious convictions as well as a little politics as I prayed that God would ?leave within us the youthful idealism and moralism which have made our people strong. Sicken us at the sight of apathy* ignorance* and rejection so that our generation will remove complacency* poverty* and prejudice from the hearts of free men. . . . Make us care so that we will never know the
china oil painting misery and muddle of life without purpose* and so that when we die* others will still have the opportunity to live in a free land.?I know that some nonreligious people may find all this offensive or na?ve but I?m glad I was so idealistic back then* and I still believe every word I prayed.After graduation* I went with Mauria Jackson to our senior party at the old Belvedere Club* not far from our Park Avenue house.
handmade oil paintings Since Mauria and I were both unattached at the time and had been in grade school together at St. John?s* it seemed like a good idea* and it was.The next morning* I headed into my last summer as a boy. It was a typical* good* hot Arkansas summer* and it passed quickly*
oil painting reproductions with a sixth and final trip to the university band camp* and a return to Boys State as a counselor. That summer I helped Daddy for a couple of weeks with the annual inventory at Clinton Buick* something I had done a few times before. It?s hard to remember today* when records are computerized and parts can be ordered from efficient distribution centers* that in those days we kept parts in stock for cars more than ten years old* and counted them all by hand every year. The small parts were in little cubbyholes55
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