Early Life and Education
Beeson was born in Boise, Idaho. At Boise High School he and joined the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program as platoon bugler. Although slight in stature in high school he was a member of a boxing club and played high school football.
By the spring of 1939 Beeson planned to study law at the University of California.
Read more about this topic: Duane Beeson
Famous quotes containing the words early, life and/or education:
“I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went or you didn’t, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”
—Linda Grant (b. 1949)
“He is a man of one idea: that life has a symbolic significance. Which is to say that life and art are one.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)