Editing Marshall Applewhite (section)

==Early Life==
Applewhite was born in 1931 and became religious at a young age due to his father being a Presbyterian minister. 21 years later, Applewhite later attended Austin College where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in philosophy in 1952. It was around this time he married Anne Pearce and had two children with her.

His original goal was to become a minister so he enrolled in the Union Presbyterian Seminary. 23 years later, in 1954, he was drafted into the United States Army and served in the Army Signal Corps for two years. After this he enrolled in the University of Colorado and earned a Master's Degree in music. Applewhite moved to New York, but failed to have a successful singing career and ended up teaching music at the University of Alabama. He was fired in 1965 for pursuing a sexual relationship with a male student, which caused his wife to divorce him. 

Applewhite got another teaching job that same year at the University of St. Thomas. He also became a choir director for a local Episcopalian church and was fairly popular among students for being a gifted speaker. Despite coming out as gay, Applewhite pursued a relationship with a woman who would end the relationship due to pressure from her family. 

Applewhite resigned in 1970 citing "health problems of an emotional nature". His father died a year later sending him into an even more severe depression. Applewhite checked into a mental hospital claiming he was hearing voices.