INTERVIEW WITH ORSON CLARK

Interviewed by Clark S. and Ruth Knowlton

23 November 1981

Tape II

Interviewer: Were all your brothers and sisters encouraged to go to college?

Orson Clark: Oh, yes.

Interviewer: Your parents believed very much in education?

Orson Clark: Yes.

Interviewer: Were they unique in the community, or was that true of many other parents?

Orson Clark: Well, I think there were quite a lot of them that did.

Interviewer: Did most of your cousins go to college?

Orson Clark: Yes. I don't know that Iris and Erwin did and I don't know whether Juliun did. But Neland did, Ford did, and myself, that's about all I think of.

Lucille Clark: Well, what's the youngest Tanner boy's name?

Orson Clark: Obert.

Lucille Clark: Obert, yes.

Orson Clark: There are quite a few Farmington people that went.

Interviewer: Farmington had quite a reputation for believing in education didn't it? Most of the young people here went to the University.

Orson Clark: There was Preston Robinson. He was going when I went there.

Interviewer: What classes did you like the best at the U?

Orson Clark: Economics.

Interviewer: What were you majoring in?

Orson Clark: That's what I majored in, economics.

Interviewer: You got your degree in economics?

Orson Clark: Yes.

Interviewer: You graduated in what year?