Paul Jr. attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory and the University of San Francisco, both Jesuit schools. Throughout his adolescence he showed a great interest in reading and music, encouraged by his mother. In 1950 he was drafted to serve in the Korean War, spending the duration working at the American headquarters in Seoul, South Korea.[5] After he was discharged he met Abigail Harris, the daughter of a prominent San Franciscan Federal judge, and the two were married in early 1956.