Editing Rod Serling (section)

==Postwar life, education, and family==
After being discharged from the Army in 1946, Serling worked at a rehabilitation hospital while recovering from his wounds. His knee troubled him for years. Later, his wife, Carol, became accustomed to the sound of him falling on the stairs when his knee would buckle.<ref name=Rosenbaum/>

When he was fit enough, he used the federal [[G.I. Bill|G.I. bill's educational benefits]]<ref name=Hudson/> and disability payments<ref name=Rosenbaum/> to enroll in the physical education program at [[Antioch College]] in [[Yellow Springs, Ohio]]. He had been accepted to Antioch (his brother's ''alma mater'') while in high school.<ref name=Sander1992/>{{rp|53}} His interests led him to the theater department and then to broadcasting.<ref name=Rosenbaum/> He changed his major to Literature and earned his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1950.<ref name=CAO/> "I was kind of mixed up and restless, and I kind of liked their work-for-a-term, go-to-school-for-a-term set-up," he recounted.<ref name=Sander1992/>{{rp|53}}

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As part of his studies, Serling became active in the campus radio station, an experience that proved useful in his future career. He wrote, directed, and acted in many radio programs on campus, then around the state, as part of his work study.<ref name=DuBrow>{{cite news | last =DuBrow | first = Rick | title = Assessing the Astonishing Impact of Rod Serling's 'Twilight Zone' : Television: KTLA Channel 5 presents its eighth annual marathon of the venerable hit today. Serling's widow calls the show a 'cottage industry.' | date= July 4, 1990 | newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-04-ca-275-story.html }}</ref> Here he met Carolyn Louise "Carol" Kramer,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/arts/television/carol-serling-dead.html|title=Carol Serling, Rod's Wife and Tender of 'Twilight Zone' Flame, Dies at 90|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 23, 2020}}</ref> a fellow student, who later became his wife. At first, she refused to date him because of his promiscuous campus reputation, but she eventually changed her mind.<ref name=CAO/> In college he joined the [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] church,<ref name=Scribner/> which married him and Kramer on July 31, 1948.<ref name=CAO/> They had two daughters, Jodi (born 1952) and Anne (born 1955).<ref name=CAO/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-rod-serling-19750629-20160623-snap-story.html|title=From the Archives: TV's Rod Serling, 50, Dies 2 Days After Heart Surgery |date=June 29, 1975|newspaper= [[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=August 11, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Serling | first=Anne | title=As I Knew Him:: My Dad, Rod Serling | publisher=Citadel Press | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-8065-3674-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxIfAwAAQBAJ }}</ref>

Carol Serling's maternal grandmother, Louise Taft Orton Caldwell,<ref name=Sander1992/>{{rp|60}} had a summer home on [[Cayuga Lake]] in Interlaken, New York, which was the honeymoon destination for the newlyweds. The Serling family continued to use this house annually throughout Rod's life, missing only two summers in the years when his daughters were born.<ref name=Rosenbaum>Rosenbaum, Bob. "Life With Rod: A Conversation with Carol Serling". ''Twilight Zone'' magazine, April 1987.</ref>

For extra money in his college years, Serling worked part-time testing parachutes for the [[United States Army Air Forces]]. According to his radio station coworkers, he received $50 for each successful jump and had once been paid $500 (half before and half if he survived) for a hazardous test.<ref name=Sander1992/>{{rp|58}} His last test jump was a few weeks before his wedding. In one instance, he earned $1,000 for testing a jet ejection seat that had killed the previous three testers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hotspringsdaily.com/2016/03/celebrities-who-served-rod-serling/ |title=Celebrities Who Served: Rod Serling |website=HotSpringsDaily.com |access-date=May 3, 2016 |location=Hot Springs, Arkansas |archive-date=June 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602111033/http://hotspringsdaily.com/2016/03/celebrities-who-served-rod-serling/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Sander1992/>{{rp|61}}