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were so few looms, each of us in the class had access to one for six hours a week. I became so engrossed that I frequently slipped into "the lab" on Saturdays to try out a design-idea that couldn't seem to wait until my regular turn. Very soon I was to have my own loom in my ouw studio.
   Ann Swainson insisted that I should study fibres and the history of their uses. I could see little or no value in this for a would-be painter but I held her in such esteem that I dutifully enrolled in the Agriculture Department. Almost all fibres grow in California, cotton, flax, and ramie, and there was some sericulture. At about that time, rayon was beginning to attract wide attention. I well remember the professor in this course predicting, "Manmade fibres are on the way." How little he knew!
   My interests in college obviously were oriented toward the classes in art but I also majored in history. The course in Education was a "must," since I expected to teach until I could afford to try to live as a painter. Of Economics, I remember only that the professor lost two students during

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