My name is, uh, Marv Becker. And I graduated in 1955. History and English. Hap Mahaffey was the speech (pause) coach at that particular time (pause) and he signed me up for, uh, debate. Which I really, thoroughly enjoyed because it was my first experience with that type of thing. And uh, very first thing in the fall, we took a trip down to Fresno for a major debate tournament and that's the first time I had been out of the state of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. So that was a real treat! And Hap Mahaffey drove us down, uh, there were four or five people in his car, and he drove us down himself. So that was a real experience. It was very neat and (pause). Good.

It was interesting, uh, we drove down to, ah, San Francisco, and that was the kind of a central meeting place. And, um, and then from there we went to Fresno, which was further south. And after the debate tournament was over, I had a sister; well I had a sister that lived down in, ah, Los Angles. She was working for the Bank of America down there. And, so there were a couple of people from Pepperdine University who, uh, drove me out of the kindness of her heart down to, uh, LA to my sister's place. Now, I know that the, the relationship between Pepperdine University and Linfield, at least at that time, wasn't very good. Not too good as far as speech was concerned and speech circles. But, uh, they were really kind to me and I really appreciate the fact that I was able to go down there. And my sister, uh, took me to, on the way back from LA I was supposed to meet Hap Mahaffey and the rest of the crew in San Fransisco. So I took the train from LA up to San Frisco at the kindness of my sister, she gave me the coins to pay for the trip on the train. And, uh, so then we went to, uh, went to San Francisco where we met the rest of the crew and drove back home, up to Linfield.