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Seventeen-year-old Ted Meriam had just gotten off work at Osers Department Store.
I had just reached the back steps, at the end of the house, when the fire bell rang.
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Well, I hightailed it right back up the street because I had just walked past there with nothing going on. By the time I got over there, the place was in flames.
My father was greatly upset because his office room was on the second floor of the building
and he wanted desperately to get in because he was the custodian of the student loan fund,
and he had all the notes that the students had signed for their loans and they were burned up of course.
But my father was exercised and topped because of his inability to get into the building and get those records.
Finally because they appealed the people to be honest about, all but two students came forward and they redid the document.
It would have been so easy at that time to say, Well, the building's destroyed; we will put the school somewhere else, but it didn’t happen that way.
Osenbaugh went to Sacramento at once and did everything that he could possibly do to persuade that there be immediate action on replacing this building.
I think that it is something that has been overlooked, really, in the story of Chico State Normal School, State Teachers College, State College, University.