[Seeking the truth]

Got you beat. I was in third grade in 1953!

Don't remember exactly when I was taught about G.W. Carver but it was sometime during grammar school - St. Rose of Lima in Freehold, New Jersey.

Also learned about Ralph Bunch who became UN Undersecretary in 1955 after winning Nobel in 1950...OK, I did a quick google on Bunch re: the years but I remembered the UN & Nobel things!

BTW, my Catholic grammar school did not have one black kid enrolled although a "black street" was just a block away and we all played basketball/football/baseball together nearly every day.

[SAJ]

Did a Google, did you? Curious. The man's name was spelt Bunche, not Bunch.

Doubly curious, actually. Those historical figures I happen to admire, well, I do believe I've learnt (British English, live with it) how to spell their various names correctly, if for no other reason than simple respect.

Or, perhaps you take the view of one of Flip Wilson's personae, that I shouldn't ''Ralph Bunche'' your argument? An hilarious routine, that one was...assuming your old enough to remember it, and old enough to remember Ralph Bunche.

Wups, my bad...

[Clemenza]

I had NO idea you were from Freehold. Two questions:

1. Did you know a little child name Bruce Springsteen? He was younger than you although he attended St. Rose of Lima?

2. Is it true that there was at one time a large hillbilly population in Freehold?