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Rolfe left home as soon as he got out of high school and went to Calif. to go to UCLA; so he never did anything with silver either. He may have helped a little in the polishing, as I did, but I can't really say he was into silver anymore than I was. He took all the hardest 'college' courses in high school, planning to go to college and become an explorer in Africa. All through school he always talked about his interest in "going to Africa." But, as it turned out, he was commissioned into the Navy right out of UCLA and went on to become a Marine Fighter pilot. After the war, he stayed in the Marines as a Major, and was killed in a spontaneous explosion of a defective GE Jet engine in 1951. No trace of him was ever found; only the knowlege that the plane went down over Chesapeake Bay. |