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State colleges, the community colleges and the State

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Department and the State boards and so on. Now, again,

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beware of spelling them out, but do it so this is inclu-

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sive.

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May I take your time for just one illustration

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Again, this is a rebuttal in this matter of whether or

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not there is sufficient funds for every youngster who is

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able and willing to go to college these days, as Dr.

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Kuhn implied, and frankly there is not, in my opinion.

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Again, I revert to my experience in higher education.

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I once visited, in the days when you recruited students,

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a young man in this State who had the top record of his

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school, his high school. His family lived in a converted

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chicken house. When I talked with the boy about going to

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college, he was leaning against the handles of a plow

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behind a mule, plowing corn, and when I tried to get him

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to go to the institution that I represented on about a

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75 per cent scholarship, he looked at me wistfully and

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said, I can't go, I can't go.

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Now, this is the kind of person Dr. Pullen

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was talking about. Here was the top person in his class