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{. DR. EDWARD H. PAULEY
Dr· Edward H. Pauley, the eighth Dean of Biol_a, _}ef-9.S-~.bor.n.-June 17, 1939, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was reared in an "unchurched" home, even thoug l his mother was ' the daughter of a minister. Although the family was poor, his mother saw to it that he and his brother were exposed to the rich cul- tural opportunities available to them in Boston and the surrounding area. Dr. Pauley attended the first six grades in the South End and Roxbury sections of Boston. From the seventh grade through high school, he attended a special institution, the Boston Latin School, located in the Back Bay Dis- trict . This school, founded in 1653, as the first public school in the United States, was famous not only from the historic standpoint but also for its special curriculum with a strong emphasis on languages. While there, young Pauley had six years of Latin, four years of French, and three years of Ancient Greek . In his junior year, he worked part time in a Boston Hospital . One Sun- day a Northern blizard struck the area, covering the streets with snow and ice. That afternoon, returning home from work and preparing to make his usual transfer to the bus, he took refuge from the freezing wind in a near-b1 doorway where he was joined by Pastor Ekholm of a local Baptist church, who passed along the word that a recent radio announcer had said all bus trans- portation had been canceled. Then pointing to a poster advertising an evan- gelistic meeting, Pastor Ekholm invited the young man to accompany him to the meeting. Pauley had three options: remain in the doorway and freeze, take a trolley back to the hospita~, or accept the invitation . ~ina curious, -- -. J - he accepted the third option, to accompany the Pastor to the meeting . As Pastor Ekholm and his young friend sat in the balcony listening to the speaker , a layman who owned a chain of grocery stores in Texas, Pauley heard a penetrating question, "If you were to die this afternoon would you be sure of going to heaven?" This sixteen-year old had to answer in the
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