miles an hour for 1600 miles in June with no air conditioning to get up here. That's how badly my father wanted to come Yellowstone and it took us five days to go 1600 miles and that's driving from daylight to dark. Interviewer: Now after high school what you do? Fenn: Well the Korean War started about that time and I made, I was a terrible student. My father was horribly embarrassed for me. I mean I pray for D’s and nobody ever listened. When I graduated I think probably my father probably had something to do with my graduation. The reason, for-one of the reasons I was a terrible student was because I looked out of the window a lot and I just couldn't understand why I was sitting in a classroom when there was so much, so many wonderful things going on outside. Never figure that out. You know education is like religion, you know, some people need more of it than others and in my case it was like a smallpox vaccination. It didn't take. Interviewer: When you got out of high school, what did you do? Fenn: I went-I was into sports. So I went to Temple Junior College for two years to play basketball but I didn't much go to class. But in those days if you enrolled you can play basketball and you didn't have to go to class. That was the good part about it. If you paid your tuition. Interviewer: In your hometown? Yeah Fenn: Interviewer: Okay and did you get a degree? Fenn: No interview: When you were done, what do you next? Fenn: When the Korean War started in early September 1950, as I recall it was three days old when I joined the Air Force. Because I didn't…I was recently out of high school. Didn't have anything to do, didn't know anything, and it was something to do. You know, I'd never thought about the military but here, they needed people so I joined. Interviewer: So that, you must've been about 20 years old then?
miles an hour for 1600 miles in June with no air conditioning to get up here. That's how badly my father wanted to come Yellowstone and it took us five days to go 1600 miles and that's driving from daylight to dark. Interviewer: Now after high school what you do? Fenn: Well the Korean War started about that time and I made, I was a terrible student. My father was horribly embarrassed for me. I mean I pray for D’s and nobody ever listened. When I graduated I think probably my father probably had something to do with my graduation. The reason, for-one of the reasons I was a terrible student was because I looked out of the window a lot and I just couldn't understand why I was sitting in a classroom when there was so much, so many wonderful things going on outside. Never figure that out. You know education is like religion, you know, some people need more of it than others and in my case it was like a smallpox vaccination. It didn't take. Interviewer: When you got out of high school, what did you do? Fenn: I went-I was into sports. So I went to Temple Junior College for two years to play basketball but I didn't much go to class. But in those days if you enrolled you can play basketball and you didn't have to go to class. That was the good part about it. If you paid your tuition. Interviewer: In your hometown? Fenn: Yeah Interviewer: Okay and did you get a degree? Fenn: No interview: When you were done, what do you next? Fenn: When the Korean War started in early September 1950, as I recall it was three days old when I joined the Air Force. Because I didn't…I was recently out of high school. Didn't have anything to do, didn't know anything, and it was something to do. You know, I'd never thought about the military but here, they needed people so I joined. Interviewer: So that, you must've been about 20 years old then?
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