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| Notes for Medford Pettit |
He was born as Medford Petitt, but when he enlisted in the Army,
they misspelled his name, and he couldn't get his college tuition paid via the G.I. Bill if he enrolled
under a different spelling. The Army said it would take 3 months to correct his record, and he didn't want
to miss a semester of college, so he decided that it was easier to change his name than to change the army.
Ironically, by doing so he was returning to the original spelling, as it was his grandfather Jessie who
first starting using the spelling "Petitt".
Occupation: Highway Engineer. B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1954 Tri-State College of Engineering, Angola, Indiana. |
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