Radio School

I was told I was picked to attend radio school and where would I like to go for the training? I chose to go to Boulder,CO or San Diego,CA, so they said no to both and set me up for Farragut Radio School Training. I had been forewarned to pick the other schools so I could be closer to my fiance in Seattle. Like I had been warned, if you wanted to be someplace else the Navy didn't want you there; they wanted your complete attention. Marianne was pleased and so was I.
First, I attended electrician classes so I could have a rudimentary knowledge of basic "101 Electrician". Thank goodness I didn't need it because I was only average, or less.
When this was completed I started Radio School. The dots and dashes were sort of fascinating and Morse Code was served up all day, except when they trotted out the Royal typing machines and we would practice typing. I could type 57 wpm in Jr. High, with no errors and 62 after being penalized and I sat at the number one position for some time. Then I got scarlet fever, with a high temperature, and had to be hospitalized. Excellent care; but at first they thought I had meningitis! This was no fun, what with one or two spinal taps, but I came around with sulfa (penicillin was just being tested for safety) and finally joined radio school again. It was a new ball game now though, I had lost some instruction and had to catch up, which I finally managed to do, plus I lost my first position and was now at the lower- middle part of the class, plus I was still weak. As an added note, Marianne's Cadet Nurse class was among the first on the West Coast to use penicillin.