“It was a good experience, but I wouldn’t want to do it again,” chuckled Dinsmore.

Raised in rural Coin, Disnmore graduated from Coin High School in 1951 – with 17 students in his class.

After high school, he had the opportunity to go to California and while there, work on a 12,000 acre grape ranch as a plummer. He had decided early in high school to go to college, so in the fall of 1951, he came back to enter Northwest Missouri State University.