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The class of 1929 graduated into a society and culture of unprecedented prosperity and an economic growth that dwarfed any previous century in American history. It seemed as if the nation had entered an era of permanent growth as demonstrated by a stock market that had soared in speculation. Even the small or average investor could buy stock with as little as ten percent down, and then could use his or her stock as leverage to purchase more stocks. Banks, investment brokers and businesses, were shuffling stocks back and forth as if there was no end.

But, historian George Tindal labeled the whole economic frenzy “fantasy,” and someone in later years saw that economy as one built on a house of paper. But for Dad, that was not his immediate concern. That diploma never meant so much to any student as it did to him. He must have wondered if he was living a ‘dream come true.’ And I feel confident that miles away from Lexington in a little cabin in the Cumberland mountains his father had to be so very proud of him, and must have had no doubt that he made a very wise decision to seek a future beyond the Kentucky coal fields; the first member of his family to earn a college degree.