History of Education

Abstract

My father was born in Paris, Tennessee, a little town northeast of Memphis. His father was a railroad conductor, born in Tennessee in the year of his German parents’ arrival, 1870. My grandmother’s people were all Dutch. A certified teacher, she schooled her two sons at home until the family moved to Memphis, where the boys went to high-school. A teacher encouraged my dad to go to Georgia Tech to study engineering. In his senior year there a professor suggested that he apply to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale to study for a master’s degree.