In May, 1948, Margeet graduated from State College High School, and my roommate, Ken Martin, graduated from Penn State with a chemisty major. Margeet moved back to live with her folks in Mt. Lebanon and enrolled at Carnegie-Tech University (now Carnegie Mellon University) and completed one year there.

Margeet had been staying at home in Mt. Lebanon, commuting to Carnegie-Tech, until her folks moved to Newark, New Jersey where her father started on a new job. Margeet then moved into a college dorm for the rest of her school year. During the year, she came up to State College for my graduation from Penn State in January, 1949.

Jake Javornik had moved into 727 as a student roomer the previous year and we became close friends. He was from the very small town of Bitumin near Renova, and had served in the Marine Corps during World War II. With Ken graduated after three years rooming together, Jake and I decided to move into one of the temporary wooden dorms at the far end of the campus where there were dining facilities during the fall of 1948.

Jake managed a sandlot baseball team in the Renova area, and invited me to play for his team during the early fall. Quite often I would go home with him for weekends, playing ball, fishing in Kettle Creek State Park, and exploring some of the forest trails near his home.

In June of 1949, Margeet moved to Newark to live with her parents and entered the Berkley Secretarial School in East Orange. When she graduated there in 1950, she was hired a a secretary at the Admissions Office of Penn State. She had moved back with the Stevensons at 727 until September when her sister Tish and Ted Bunnell were married.

She then moved into their apartment with them to help them pay their expenses. In the spring, they moved into another apartment on Allen Street in downtown State College which had cheaper rent. Ted and Tish graduated in 1951, and Ted found a job at a plant in Mill Hall and they moved there.

Alone in the Allen Street Apartment with the rent beyond her means, Margeet invited her friend Martha Tylwalk (Butchie) and another friend Avis Mitchell (her husband was in the military and visited on weekends) to move in with her. Margeet and I had been out of touch with each other for about a year, but she remembers that I had made a few trips to visit her when she was living there..

In November of 1949, I took a job as a surveyor with Alex Hutchinson & Son in Wilkinsburg, a suburb of Pittsburgh, driving about 25 miles from our home in Monongahela. We did survey and layout work for customers ranging from USSteel in Hazelwood, J&L Steel on the South Side, to housing developments, and layout work for the new city-wide Alcosan sewage system. Before this, much of the raw sewage had been dumped directly into the river.

During the spring of 1949, my brother Tony wanted to take a trip into the southwest to visit some national parks, and also some areas in southern California where he had spent four years in the Air Force to check out job opportunities. We spent about four weeks visiting parks in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Bryce Canyon in Utah, and a short visit in Californa

In the fall of 1951, Alex Hutchinson was doing layout work for a new tube mill for Wheeling-Pittsburg Steel in Roscoe, about 10 or so miles from my home on Hill Street. Ragnar Benson, Inc. had the contract to do the civil work and steel erection, and had just started to move onto the site. The superintendent offered me a job as their surveyor, which I accepted on the spot, starting my 35 year career with that company.