 At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. |
| To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. |
| Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. |
| My family gave me the best in education. |
| At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. |
| I was particularly good at math and science. |
| I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science. |
| In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. |
| At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. |
| I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain. |
| My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. |
| I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires. |
| In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe. |
| I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. |
