Photo by Zen Page 21 Previous Page Next Page . . . Navelencia . . . David [Spaulding] graduated from Pasadena College in 1925, after marrying Isal in 1920. . . . He received a Master’s degree from U.S.C. and taught science for thirty years, first at Pasadena College Academy, then at Pasadena High School and city college. He was also an ordained minister and preached for forty-two years, mostly to the Spanish speaking people he loved. . . . Albert B., the oldest of the family . . . married Grace Whitcomb in 1914 and soon took her back to Springfield, Illinois, finishing Father’s business in a sub-division which was left incomplete when the family moved to California. Irving recalls: Albert had a car in his basement to which he attached a vacuum cleaner to the air intake of the carburetor. During World War I, our planes would lose their power when they tried to fly above 20,000 or 30,000 feet. Albert went to Dayton, Ohio, to show the Wright Brothers his invention. To demonstrate it, a man drove a truck up Pike’s Peak, the highest elevation they could find with “Albert Spaulding’s electrically operated compressor.” The truck driver wired back to the waiting Wrights, “It works!” So, during the war, Albert was the manager of Liberty Motor Development, working with “seventeen engines in a row.” His inventiveness furthered the development of engines for high altitude flying. After the war, there was less interest in this facet of flying, temporarily, so Albert came to Navelencia. [Albert Starr Spaulding lost his second wife]