ABSTRACT
An excellent student, Patricia saw education as her opportunity to see the world outside of the small town and to improve her lot. While nursing her father during his final illness, for example, she had not only taken a shorthand class between working on the farm and attending high school, but also had begun saving for higher education. Graduating from high school with honors, she enrolled at FullertonJunior College. To pay for school, she worked after early household chores at six in the morning. She scrubbed down the marble steps of the local bank, cleaned the bank as janitor, and then worked in the bank as a teller. Only after a day's work could she take a trolley car and attend college classes. "In any type of occupation requiring the meeting of the public, Pat will be a great success," wrote one ofher professors.
