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Painters. The exposure to this vast repository of creative effort was the prelude, although I did not recognize it then, to the day when I would branch out on my own as a craftsman and designer.
The move from California had not been accomplished without a struggle on two fronts, my parents and the perennial problem of money.
When I first broached the idea of going to New York, my mother and father posed the obvious question, "How do you propose to support yourself there?" For the moment, there had been no answer. However, I was hatching a plan.
In my last year in the University, I had taken a course in education given by a visiting professor,  Leonard of the Teachers College of Columbia University. I had asked him if there might be an opening on his staff sometime, adding that I could not come immediately because I had no money. Dean Leonard had been most encouraging.
"When you are ready," he said, "get in touch with me and