I started school at a private Kindergarten in Riverside, a suburb of Windsor. Grades one to Four were held in Edith Cavell School (which shared facilities with Riverside High School) before the baby boom caused the Board of Education to build Princess Elizabeth School which is where I attended grades 5 through 8. Even with the new school, the demographics of the baby boom forced staggered hours so that in Grades 5 and 6 I only went afternoons (starting through the noon hour) and in Grade 6 I was accelerated so that in one year I completed Grades 6 and 7.
For secondary school, I started back at Riverside High (which now had taken over the whole building (shop was in my Grade 1 classroom) but because of the move to Amherstburg Nov. 30, I switched on January 1, 1957 to General Amherst High for the rest of Grade 9 and Grades 10 through 13
When I did my Grade 13, there were still dpeartmental examinations and I chose to write 10 of them although the usual was 9 (maximum number of periods per day) and to get into University, one needed fewer. I passed all 10 even though the grades could have been better. My Principal thought that would be the result of taking such a heavy load in one year.
I did my undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science at the University of Windsor and graduated in 1965. I had started in Honours History but Dr. Zbigniew M. Fallenbuchl, my first year instructor and my inspiration in economics, talked me into changing. That fit my feelings extremely well because I liked modern History [economics and political science both deal with modern history] much more than ancient civilizations. I graduated with a class of eight. Two of those, plus myself received interviews for a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship to Princeton University, which in 1965 was probably second only to the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. Those individuals remain distinguished economists - Dr. Lloyd Atkinson and Dr. William R. White.
I then went to LSE London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London in London England where I completed my M.Sc(Econ) in one year. Not only did I love the way economics is taught in the British system, I had two wonderful mentors, Dr. Maurice Peston and Dr. (later Sir) Ian Byatt. The experience of living in London England was also worth it.
