User:Jonwallacelarson67

Here I am! The second child and son of Rudolh Vernon and Helen Calder Larson born on 8 May 1942 in the Pierce County Hospital in Tacoma, Pierce Co. Washington. Father was an army doctor serving at Fort Lewis Washington. When he was sent with his hospital unit overseas to England in 1944, we moved to Vernal, Utah to live with mother's parents, Wallace and May Hacking Calder.When dad returned home in late September, 1945, we moved to Smithfield, Utah. Shortly thereafter dad was asked to move to Roosevelt, Utah to serve in the hospitala owned and operated by the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I developed a severe kidney infection and spent a month in the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City.

After a long recovery, I was allowed to begin my formal education by enrolling in kindergarten at the Roosevelt Elementry school June 1948. Blanche Murphy was our teacher. It was half a day. Naps on an army blanket. snacks were soda crackers and grapefruit juice. Mostof my kindergarten classmates continued with me through high school. Teachers in grade school, 1st grade, Mrs. Blaine, 2nd grade, Mrs Wilkerson, 3rd grade, Mrs. Robinson, 4th grade, Mrs Tietjen, 5th grade, Mrs. Phillips, 6th grade, Mr. Tietjen.

Junior High School was in the Old Roosevelt High School building. During 9th grade, we also used a new Jr. High building built next to the old building.

While we were in 3rd grade, a new high school was completed right on the county line, so the school was named Union High School to signify the union of two school districts. Loman F. Hutchings, the father of my best friend, Brent Hutchings was the principal. It was just a little akward for Brent to have his dad as the principal when we entered high school as sophomores in 1957. I served as Soph. class president, as studentbody vice pres. during our Jr. year and as Senior class president. I earned a varsity letter in football, and basketball, and participated on the yearbook staff.

I attended Brigham Young Unniversity during my freshman year and then lelft school to serve a 30-month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the West German Mission headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

Uppn returning from my mission in January 1964, I returned to BYU to finish my education. I graduated with a BS degree in Zoology.