Pressured by his parents to attend college, he enrolled at a "subcollege" of Southwest Texas State Teachers College (SWTSTC) in the summer of 1924, where students from unaccredited high schools could take the 12th-grade courses needed for admission to college.
Presat de părinții săi să meargă la colegiu, s-a înscris la un „subcolegiu” al Colegiului Profesoral de Stat din Southwest Texas (SWTSTC), în vara anului 1924, unde studenții de la licee neacreditate puteau să urmeze cursurile clasei a XII-a necesare admiterii la facultate.