Donald F. Megnin
Donald F. Megnin (STH’60) of Jamesville, N.Y., is at work on an autobiographical book to be titled A Boy Grows Up on a Farm. The book “covers the period from 1928 to 1950,” he writes. After his brother was called into the army in August 1942, he says, “my father wrote our high school principal to ask if I might be allowed to drop out of school on the first of March each year to do the work required on the farm each spring. My father was a tool and die maker during the war and subsequently needed someone on the farm to help my mother care for the livestock each day. He was making parts for American tanks. The principal agreed, with the proviso that I had to take the final exams each June, and if I passed them, I could stay with my class. If I failed any of them, I would have to drop back into the previous class. Fortunately, I passed all my exams, so that I stayed with my class.”
From the Winter-Spring 2015 issue.