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SSE:
But you originally had the idea of going into business.
Kes:
Yes, I dfd.
SSH:
Why business rather than 4 pre-med course?
KGS:
Well, most of the people that I admired se salen and
people of that sort, that came by with bakey suitcases worth
of samples and etut, stimulated me inta poueineas ware
(ab T took extra courses in mathematics at‘high school” det
_ kind of a fifth year student.
a Mr. sudvcer.
Our principal there was
Andphe school board was down on him, and as
students we held a march and an uprising against an old lady
who was the head of the schoolboard,a-d putihs komesi on that.
Can?’ when I did go to Cal he was very careful about my grades®
he gave me excellent gradegy I think he even changed
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wat grade I got.
Well,was it unusual to send a student, a graduate from Duns ber,
to Berkeley in those days?
It was
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So you were sort of a prize student.
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KGS:
Well, not really.
(SSH laughs) I was lousy in everything, in
Boglish,ehoPe had a lot of unusual teachers -xt«
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But‘Fou were good in math. mo
wass faitly,good inLaniadvanced algebra.
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you were a0> Bad, as you eay, in alls the other subjects,
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encouraging you to go to
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