My timeline begins when I was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919. We did not stay long, for after I was born, we traveled to Pasadena, California. My mother loved the town and we moved in. She had divorced my father, so it was just her, me, and my four other siblings. When I grew up, I enrolled in Pasadena Junior College. I played four sports; football, basketball, track, and baseball. I was an outstanding athlete, and continued my pursuit of knowledge and athleticism at the University of California in Los Angeles, also known as UCLA, where I became the first ever student to win varsity letter in all four sports. I started to play for the semi-professional team, named the Honolulu Bears, but then World War II occurred, and I was drafted into
