Attends University of Colorado, Boulder, for one year. Hunts for the last time. His sister, Carolyn, gives him a copy of The Family of Man.

Enters the University of Redlands in California, where he spends the next three years earning his B.A. in English. He abandons his intention of becoming a minister.

Takes courses in Shakespearean tragedy and modern literature from William Main, an unorthodox and charismatic teacher whose views had been shaped by Reinhold Niebuhr.