Editing Birch Bayh (section)

=== Youth and education ===
Bayh was born in [[Terre Haute, Indiana]], the son of Leah Ward (née Hollingsworth), a teacher, and [[Birch Bayh (coach)|Birch Bayh]], an intercollegiate coach and athletic director. His ancestry included ancestors who were German, English, [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scotch-Irish]], and Scottish. Bayh spent summers on his grandparents' farm in [[Shirkieville, Indiana]], where he later lived. As a student at New Goshen (Fayette Township) High School, young Birch took part in speaking contests, played baseball and basketball, and won the Indiana [[4-H]] Tomato Championship.<ref name="Cruikshank">Cruikshank, Kate. ''[http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8621 The Art of Leadership; A Companion to an Exhibition from the Senatorial Papers of Birch Bayh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228194809/http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8621 |date=December 28, 2012 }}''. (Indiana University Libraries, 2007)</ref>

From 1946 to 1948, Bayh served as a [[Military Police Corps (United States)|Military Police Corps]] with the United States Army in occupied Germany following World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2lsbAAAAIBAJ&pg=4387,4776683&dq=birch+bayh&hl=en |title=82German Families Fed|work=The Pittsburgh Press|via=Google News Archive Search}}</ref> He excelled in sports, competing as a [[Golden Gloves]] boxer in college<ref name="Household">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/15/archives/birch-bayh-isnt-a-household-wordyet-senator-birch-bayh.html |title=Birch Bayh Isn't a Household Word—Yet |first=Robert |last=Sherrill |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 15, 1970 }}</ref> and taking part in two Major League Baseball tryouts.<ref name="Goodheart">{{cite web |url=http://www.birchbayh.com/id2.html |title=Legislative Summary |website=www.birchbayh.com}}</ref> Bayh graduated from the [[Purdue University]] School of Agriculture in 1951, where he was a member of the [[Alpha Tau Omega]] social fraternity and senior class president.<ref name="Cruikshank" /> In 1951, he won Alpha Tau Omega's highest individual collegiate award, the Thomas Arkle Clark Award. He married Marvella Hern in August 1952, and took courses at [[Indiana State University]] in Terre Haute for two years while also running the family farm.<ref name="SenatePapers">{{cite web |url=https://libraries.indiana.edu/ |title=Indiana University Libraries |website=libraries.indiana.edu}}</ref>