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Lawrenca Berkaley Laboratory
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She tedmhres, part -of her mother's fortune, which came around
in the Depression. Gn¥Yshe was Back inte beauty school, but
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she gradually frittered away everything.
Gyr left home at
that point; I was going to school at U.Cc. Berkeley.
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should mention that all of my undevgradvate school and high
school was done at Dungmeyir California, which was a big
Craw]
railroad.
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SSH:
By that time had your mother and father split permanently?
KGS:
They never did, except periodically.
SSH:
(Laughs)
.
So your father was always around to support the
family ~
KGS:
Well, you could call it that, He was quite a drinker, and he
would disappear with all of the money that he had and stay away
"ttl tt was gone.
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SSH:
thatDrake it pretty rough on your growing up years?
KGS:
,
‘yell, they were very limited as to what we could get.
answer to that was to go get a succeseion of jobs.
‘angmy
wen
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ag you may know, is near Shasta Springs. aad 1 first got summertime
money by establishing a vegetable route.
E'd go around and get
orders for fresh vegetabless/and then deliver them
hESS
Beal
Me
.
Cuaughter)
hears
I raised a lot of rabbitsp‘and
I would sell then from door to door and take orders in advance
and ‘then go prepare them.
SSH:
I liked thatgy‘and I liked animals.
| Were youbeginning to be interested in sctence in high school?
Not reallyy I was so busy working in high school that I didn’t
KGS:
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ever. get to take a lot of courses.
I took the required mathematics.
And.tt waen "t much of a school we had in Qvasmur, it was a.
‘school. district.
community
But I learned the mos tgy’and got the
most .out ‘of people when I was employed by one of the local