Mr. TAVENNER. During the course of the hearing in June 1954 you were asked a number of questions regarding your background. But the present chairman of the subcommittee was not present with the committee on that occasion, and I think it would be well to begin as if we had taken no testimony whatever.
Will you tell the committee, please, when and where you were born?
Mr. DENNETT. I was born in Revere, Mass., April 26, 1908.
Mr. DENNETT. 7324 34th Avenue SW., Seattle 6, Wash.
Mr. TAVENNER. When did you move to the general area of Seattle, or may I say to the State of Washington?
Mr. TAVENNER. Will you give the committee, please, a brief outline of your formal educational training?
Mr. DENNETT. I graduated from high school in Rickreall, Oreg. I was out of school a year, unable to raise the finances to go on to college. The second year I made arrangements to finance going to normal school by carrying a paper route.
I graduated from the Oregon Normal School in 1928, and started teaching school. That was a 2-year college at that time, or 2-year normal school. It has since been changed to a college of education, and it is a 4-year school now. That was at Monmouth, Oreg.
After receiving my teaching certificate and starting to teach, I carried on extension work with the University of Oregon, and later, at a later year, I took a couple more quarters of advanced work at the University of Oregon in the School of Education, Sociology, and Philosophy. I did not graduate.
Mr. TAVENNER. When did you complete your work at the university?
Mr. DENNETT. Well, the work that I took, which was not sufficient for a degree or graduation, ended in 1931.
Mr. TAVENNER. Will you tell the committee, please, briefly, what your employment record has been since that time.
Mr. DENNETT. Well, after I left teaching I was unemployed for quite a long period of time. The great depression had started, and I became active in the unemployed work.
Later on when the CCC’s were organized, that is, the Civilian Conservation Corps, since I was in a soup line here in Seattle and saw an announcement that it was possible for us to leave the soup line and go out in the woods in the CCC’s, I chose to do so, and spent a year there, about 15 months, in fact.