b'ROSELYN BAKERY AT 22ND ST. AND MERIDIAN ST.CITIZENS BAKERY WHILE ON A SALES CALL IN 1943 AT A BAKERY ON THE CORNER OF 22ND AND MERIDIAN,CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA JOHN ASKED THE OWNER, HOWS BUSINESS?THE ANSWER WAS, ROTTEN.JOHNDID NOT WASTE ANY TIME IN TELLING THE BAKER THAT IF HE MADE HIGHER QUALITYPRODUCTS AND IN TURN CHARGED A HIGHER PRICE TO COMPENSATE FOR THE HIGHERQUALITY, HE FELT CERTAIN THAT THERE WOULD BE AN INCREASE IN SALES.THEBAKERS REPLY WAS, IF YOURE SO DARN SMART, WHY DONT YOU GET INTO THEBAKING BUSINESS?JOHN ACCEPTED THE CHALLENGE AND ASKED THE BAKER HOWJOHN S. JR. ATTENDED PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA WHERE HE MUCH HE WANTED FOR HIS SHOP.JOHN AND MILDRED SCRAPED TOGETHER THE $300ENROLLED IN THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCHOOL AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE DOWN PAYMENT FOR THE EXISTING LOCATION.ROSELYN BAKERY WAS BORN.DELTA TAU DELTA FRATERNITY.IN HIS THIRD YEAR OF SCHOOL HIS FATHER DIED,FORCING HIM TO QUIT THE UNIVERSITY TO HELP SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. JOHN TOOK JOHN AND MILDRED WRESTLED OVER A NAME FOR THE BAKERY.THEY LIKED THEOVER HIS FATHERS INDIANAPOLIS POSITION AT CHAPMAN AND SMITH.HE TRAVELED NAME ROSEMARIES.THEIR SIGN HAD ALREADY BEEN STARTED WHEN IT WASTO SMALL BAKERIES ALL OVER INDIANA.HERE HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE DISCOVERED THAT THE NAME ROSEMARIES WAS ALREADY BEING USED BY A BAKERYAND LEARN ALMOST EVERY ASPECT OF THE BAKERY INDUSTRY, INCLUDING HOW AND IN MARION, INDIANA.HARD PRESSED FINANCIALLY, THEY SALVAGED THE SIGN BYWHY BAKERIES SUCCEEDED OR FAILED. AMENDING THE NAME TO ROSELYN.IN EARLY 1930, HE ATTENDED A DANCE AT BUTLER UNIVERSITY WHERE HE METMILDRED GOEPPER.HE WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND TOLD HIS MOTHER, I JUST METTHE GIRL IM GOING TO MARRY.SO, IN SEPTEMBER JOHN AND MILDRED WERE WED.13 2'