1929 Stock market crashes in October. George lives with aunt in Brooklyn while completing Stuyvesant High school in New York. 1941 America, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, enters World War II later that year. Marries his neighbor, Helen Steinberg. America begins its post war recovery.
First computer is constructed.
Receives B.A. in Art Education, New York University. Borrows heavily in order to buy his own egg-producing farm. Builds chicken coops. Meets his neighbor, Allan Kaprow, who teaches art history at Rutgers. Kaprow arranges for Segal to teach at the Rutgers Sketch Club.