Harold R. Heath, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, May 30, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 29 and 30

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OLDR. AT 2 trucking contract for General Electric. As a matter of fact w had a hom ·n llad and at that time, they didn t have kindergarten in Holladay for kids that w r fiv y ar old. I used to ride with my father in his Model-T truck to Sugarhouse where my grandparents, my mother's folks, lived. Two of my mothers sisters taught at the Forest School on Twenty-first South. I'd accompany them over to the Forest School for morning kindergarten. Then, they'd see me back across Twenty-first South, and I found my way back to my grandparent's home, and spent the afternoon there, and would ride home with my dad in the evening. It was quite an adventure for a five year old. Although, I recall that I had colds and illnesses and missed a fair amount of school, but I was the only one in the whole neighborhood that was going to kindergarten. I was cautioned by my mother and by my aunts that I shouldn't make too much of a point about where I lived. It was fun, and I grew very familiar with Sugarhouse as a young child. In later years, we'd go up to my grandparent's home usually every Sunday afternoon, so I was well acquainted with the Brook's and some of the other kids that lived near there. WIN: So when you did start regular school, where did you go? HAR: To the Holladay School. It is on Twenty-third East, just north of the Murray­Holladay road about a block. WIN: Forty-seven hundred South? HAR: Roughly. It's between Forty-fifth and-at the time that I started school there, it was a brand new school. As a matter of fact, they built the school in what had been an 3