…Pappy, for example, in academic regalia. For Valley College graduation, I think, inasmuch as he didn’t himself complete any degrees while living in California. His final academic degree was his master’s in German, from BYU (or maybe Wisconsin?).

This is a particularly evocative image, because our Pappy was the first college student in his family. Ever, as far as we know.

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