Dad

School Assignment

"Ask your grandparents about their childhoods..."

Warren T. Vaughan, Jr., M.D.
P.O. Box 620458
Woooside, CA 94052
Tel/fax 415-851-9533

12/8/97

TO: Elizabeth Hunter Vaughan

FROM: Your Gramps

SUBJECT: My early years.

I grew up in Richmond, Virginia during the 20'S and 30'S. I went to St. Christopher's School for my middle school and high school years and graduated in 1937. We had prayer and Bible reading every morning in assembly. I played the violin for singing hymns during my last two years. Old Testament stories I especially liked are Noah and the Ark, Jonah and the whale, Daniel in the lion's den. New Testament stories are the Birth of Christ and the Sermon on the Mount.

In school I liked Latin, French and German as well as history, especially ancient history and English history. I also liked English literature and science.

I had friends who liked to play music and go camping in Boy Scouts.

Our school was an Episcopal school preparing boys for top colleges.

I always wanted to be a doctor and did so. Graduating in 1943, during World War II. I became an army doctor. Hitler was terrible. We never thought he could win. Many of my friends in school gave their lives to defeat Hitler. I think that events leading up to World War II were most important in shaping my life. I believed in Internationalism, welcomed the United Nations and support multiculturalism as the way to go in understanding and treasuring all the cultures, including religions, of the world.