Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  He korero: I a ia e taiohi ana, i rapu a Dean i te tohutohu me te hoahoatanga o tetahi tohunga Methodist o te rohe, te Rev. James DeWeerd, e ahua nei he mana nui ki a Dean, ina koa ki ana hiahia a muri ake nei ki te whawhai kau, te whakataetae motuka, me te whare tapere. E ai ki a Billy J. Harbin, he "hononga piri a Dean ki tana tohunga, i tīmata i tana tau whakamutunga o te kura tuarua, a, he maha nga tau i mau tonu ai". Ko ta raua hononga moepuku i whakaarohia i roto i te pukapuka a Paul Alexander i te tau 1994 Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean. I te tau 2011, i kii a Dean ki a Elizabeth Taylor i te mea i tukinotia ia e tetahi minita tata ki te rua tau i muri i te matenga o tona whaea. Ko etahi atu purongo mo te koiora o Dean e kii ana kua tukinotia ia e DeWeerd i a ia e tamariki ana, i whai hononga taatai ranei ki a ia i te mutunga o te taiohi. Ko te mahinga katoa a Dean i te kura he mea tino pai, he akonga rongonui ia. I takaro ia i nga kapa poitūkohu me nga kapa poitūkohu o te whare wānanga, i ako i te whakaari, i whakataetae hoki i te korero a te iwi i roto i te Indiana High School Forensic Association. Whai muri i tana tohu i te Kura Tuarua o Fairmount i te Haratua 1949, ka hoki ia ki California me tana kuri, a Max, ki te noho ki tona papa me tana whaea tuarua. I uru ia ki te Whare Wananga o Santa Monica (SMC) me te ako i mua i te ture. I whakawhiti atu ia ki UCLA mo te haurua kotahi, ka huri i tana kaupapa ki te whakaari, na te mea i wehe atu ia i tona papa. I whakawhiwhia ia ki te hononga o Sigma Nu, engari kaore i whakauruhia. I a ia i UCLA, i tohua a Dean mai i te roopu 350 kaiwhakaari ki te whakaatu i a Malcolm i Macbeth. I taua wa, i tiimata ano ia ki te mahi i roto i te awheawhe a James Whitmore. I te marama o Hanuere 1951, i wehe ia i te UCLA ki te whai i te mahi wa-katoa hei kaiwhakaari.  Pātai: Ko wai te wānanga i mahi ai a Dean i a ia i UCLA?
Ko James Whitmore