Editing Dick Price (section)

=== San Francisco ===
After leaving Harvard in 1955, Price enlisted in the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] and was given an assignment in the [[East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)]].<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|139}} He rented a room in [[San Francisco]] at [[Alan Watts]]' and [[Frederic Spiegelberg]]'s newly founded American Academy of Asian Studies (the precursor to the [[California Institute of Integral Studies]]). During this time, the  [[North Beach, San Francisco, California|North Beach]] [[Beat generation|Beat scene]] was an emerging social trend. Dick knew most of the primary figures, including [[Jack Kerouac]], [[Allen Ginsberg]],  and [[Gary Snyder]].<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|139–40}} Dick married his first wife, Bonnie, in a Zen ceremony.<ref name=upstart/>{{rp|38}}