About that time, I made contact with some of the other graduate students who had an apartment in College Town above Eagan's Grocery Store. This was a two-bedroom apartment. One of the bedrooms held two people and the other four. I don't recall the name of the person who had left, but Don Spencer was one of the members of this group. I was able to leave my $3 per week private room a block or so way and move in with this group. They were a very congenial group. Many of them worked for Professor W.T. Miller on fluororganic compounds. There were John Wrightson and Al Ditman, both of whom were somewhat older and therefore more mature than the rest of us. Others were Bob Holley, Don Spencer and I, all of who worked for Professor Blomquist. I don't remember the last person,  but it might have been Irv Bengelsdorf.

Lincoln Diuguid and I were making good progress in turning out new benzothiazole compounds for testing, but early in 1944, things started to fall apart. While we had previously had a draft-deferment status for occupational reasons, the benzothiazole work now no longer qualified for continued deferment, and we were reclassified 1-A.

As I recall, there was a reasonable time lapse between our reclassification and our actual reporting date. Two significant things happened during that period. First of all, I wanted to pursue every opportunity to regain draft deferment by whatever means was available. I am not intellectually opposed to war on philosophical grounds, I am emotionally opposed to being shot at and perhaps killed. 

Somewhere along the line, I had picked up information that there was a major project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which involved draft deferred status. With very limited information, I boarded an overnight train from Ithaca to Tennessee, but it might have been New York. I had insufficient information, and I don't recall who I went to see. In any event, I saw the wrong people and made no progress. I believe I was told that my experience did not qualify me for the work they were doing there.

I returned to Cornell to await the time for draft induction and continued to do laboratory and class work, although my heart was not in work as I anticipated induction.