ABSTRACT
Recognizing that I had been spending about as much time working with adolescents through volunteer organizations in the community as I had at my drafting table in the School of Architecture, I decided to pin my future on youth development. I set my sights on a degree in sociology because majoring in psychology would have cost me an additional year of undergraduate school. The scintillating lectures of Stephen Klineberg in social psychology (now at Rice University) and the mentoring of Robert A. Scott (retired from Stanford) helped to focus and give intellectual weight to my budding interests in adolescent development.
