Sounds from Faraway Schenectady Island and talk to people—not to mention the chance it gave him to get in a little trout fishing. Sometimes during the summer we would go with him, tenting on the grounds of a country school while he made his calls. Yet radio was still a part of his life. Captivated as he was, he kept experimenting and planning until the time was right to get into it more deeply. I suppose it was inevitable for father and son to have differences of opinion as to how things should be done—especially when both were so strong-minded. So Dad decided to go into the insurance business for himself. " W.K ." agreed, but urged him not to leave the company but to work independently within it. So instead of moving out of the office, Grandfather simply set Dad up with a section of his own, and they remained good friends. About this time, Dad was made the provincial representative of Life and did so well he was made a member of the "Million Dollar Club". Shortly after, he was promoted to provincial manager and the commissions he earned helped carry the family through some very lean times to come. But the lure of wireless was still too strong for him to shake it entirely, and in 1920-21, he taught a class in electricity and wireless communications to eighteen or twenty young men at the Provincial Technical School. The Technical School was a classroom in the Rena MacLean Memorial Hospital, which at that time was being used for the convalescence of wounded veterans. Dad organized a radio club for After the First World War, Government House became the Rena MacLean Convalescent hospital. 19