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    • Apr 2, 1941
    Mel Tillis begins third grade at a country school in Turkey Creek, Florida
    May 2, 1942
    Porter Wagoner graduates from the eighth grade in West Plains, Missouri. Needed to work on the family farm, he never attends high school
    Aug 15, 1942
    Jim Reeves arrives in Austin to attend the University of Texas on a baseball scholarship. But the college can't pick him up immediately, and Reeves--unable to find a job--leaves for Houston
    Sep 26, 1942
    Naamon Frizzell volunteers for the Army and is stationed in Greenville, Texas. Now the oldest male in the house, his 14-year-old son, Lefty Frizzell, quits school and becomes a delivery boy for a drug store
    Mar 13, 1945
    Johnny Horton enters Baylor University in Waco, Texas
    Mar 23, 1945
    Ten days after entering, Johnny Horton leaves Waco's Baylor University when his father becomes ill
    Oct 5, 1945
    Ray Charles is dismissed from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, dubbed an "unsatisfactory pupil"
    Nov 5, 1948
    Elvis Presley attends school in Tupelo, Mississippi, for the last time before the family moves to Memphis. He gives a short concert for his classmates, including a performance of "A Leaf On A Tree"
    Jun 3, 1949
    Eighth-grader Elvis Presley receives his first report card since the family moved to Memphis. He gets only a "C" in music
    Sep 6, 1949
    Six-year-old Ronnie Milsap enters kindergarten at the North Carolina School for the Blind in Raleigh



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