1952
I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school. I had no guidance in terms of family as to what to do. My high school record was very good for the last year and a half. I really started to grow academically then. I did very well at CCNY. I had a 3.7 average or something like that before the great inflation that they have now. I figured I'd like to go into my father's business, which was moderately successful in New York. I went for a business degree, and after I'd taken my business administration course and one course in accounting, I decided there was nothing about the business degree that I wanted to do. I wanted to get a liberal arts education. I changed my major to economics. I had to go through all the required courses to do anything I'd taken all the required courses for the business degree and got what was essentially a liberal arts education with a business degree. The law school persuaded me to go to law school when I was a lower junior in college.