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It must have had a tremendous influence on you in your career, in terms of knowing how to take a stand.

Well, we're off the track. But my high school was a fun period. I didn't make any records in terms of grades. I had no trouble getting into college or anything of that kind. But I certainly didn't apply myself very much to the books. I had the unfortunate skill -- and I say unfortunate because -- I had skill with my hands and could do posters and art work and illustrate and so forth -- a lot of people took advantage of that as every club wanted a poster. This benefit needed a poster. And I had done a lot of that. And teachers would make excuses for your classwork on the basis of the fact that you were doing things for the cause, so to speak. It was a big mistake from my point of view. Because they didn't keep me on the books. And in fact I don't remember ever taking an examination in high school. Not that I was excused from them. At that time if your grades were of a certain magnitude, or level, you weren't subjected to examinations. I didn't know what an examination was until I was in freshman Economics or sort of a Social Science survey course. And it was like a ton of brick had hit me when I discovered what I was expected to produce in the way of a blue book of answers, essay type answers, to a lot of questions that I only had a superficial supply of information on. And that turned me around quickly. Had no trouble in Zoology or Chemistry or things of that kind. Because those depended a great deal on lab work rather than --

I understand that at the end of your second year in college you were accepted at the University of Michigan in medical school. Is that correct?

At the end of my third year.