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Show CORA LEE JOHNSON MARCH 6, 2002 and they came in, you know, filing, five-number filing, those filing cases. I thought, we'll never get to the end of that and I thought, Well, I better go and see about beauty college. I've got to think of some way to get out of here (laughs). So I went there and it was just down to the end of the block from our employment office. They interviewed me and all that like that. I just told them, "I'd like to go to beauty school with one understanding first: Do I have to take a certain amount of my training up at the State Hospital, the State mental hospital"? And she said, "No, you do not." This is a strange thing, after I became a hairdresser, I spent many, many, many hours at the State training school for the little Down's Syndrome children and like that, many hours I spent with those hairdressers over there, doing their hair and cutting. Many hours. And I have spent some at the State Hospital. But that was something then, I had a fear of that. Then I went to school on the G.l. Bill of Rights and at that time in the State of Utah I could get out in 1, 500 hours. Ifl went on to 2,000, I could get my haircutting license. I thought, Why not? Of course I will. Then I took advantage of that, went back to New York, back to Robert Fiances Hair Design up on Fifth A venue and I got my advanced stylist certificate there, with the G.l. Bill of Rights. The Coast Guard has been good to me. But now I'm having some problems. I have to have that little discharge card and I had it all the time in my wallet but the lamination had come undone and it was sticky and I was afraid it would wear off, wear the print. So I took that, put it right here on this shelf right here so when I go down to the Xeroxer, which I have a lot ofthings done, I'd take it and have it laminated again. Well, after I told you about the flood in my ceiling, they put everything in boxes and it went with everything. It's here. BEC: Oh, that's frustrating. 45 |
