 In his memoir, Marcus recalled his father as "affectionate" and his mother as even-handed in her attention to each of their children, making sure even into their adulthood to give them equivalent gifts and make sure they were praised equally.One of Stanley Marcus's first jobs was as a 10-year-old salesman of "Saturday Evening Post", bringing him into the family's business tradition from a young age.He attended Forest Avenue High School, where he studied debate as well as English with teacher Myra Brown, whom he later credited with much of his early interest in books.