Talbot Jennings was born in Shoshone, Idaho, August 25, 1894, and graduated from Nampa High School. After serving in the Army in World War I, he attended the University of Idaho where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1924. He earned a master's degree at Harvard University and then attended the Yale Drama School. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho in 1939. By: rtvf