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Interviewer: For the high school.

Ruth Knowlton: They didn't have any evening courses then to help you get through so you could graduate?

Orson Clark: No.

Lucille Clark: No extra help at all.

Interviewer: And they wouldn't let you graduate unless you had the 16 units.

Orson Clark: That's right.

Lucille Clark: He didn't get his diploma, that's all. He got out when I did, but he knew just as much about it as I did.

Orson Clark: Utah State would accept people with 15, so I went up there.

Interviewer: Let me ask you about high school. You were on the football team and the basketball team both?

Orson Clark: Yes.

Interviewer: Were you active in any other activities in the school?

Orson Clark: Not necessarily, I don't think.

Interviewer: No drama, or debate, or such as that?

Lucille Clark: He had to get home to milk the cows.

Interviewer: I had that experience. I would get home and milk cows too, when I was going to high school. What did you like best about high school when you look back on it?

Orson Clark: I don't know. I did well in the mathematics, in geometry and the like. I remember when I graduated, there wasn't a problem in that book that I couldn't work. The kids used to come and have me help them.

Interviewer: I wish you were around when I was in high school, I could have used you. Let me ask you this about high school, you were on the football team and the basketball team both?

Orson Clark: Yes.

Interviewer: Were you active in any other activities in the school?