Stanley Waldrop

From the Chaffey College Seventh Annual Faculty Lecture 1975, given by O. (Otis) Stanley Waldrop titled "Power". Stan Waldrop was 18 years old when he was drafted into the U.S. Marines during World War II. He enjoyed spending time in the base libraries, where his "egghead intellectual identity" tended to scare away his "superiors." It was there that he first read Plato's Dialogs and became impressed with the power of philosophy. He writes that "never having had a personal father, …