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Show WILLIAM M. ANDERLI WE: [laugh] 27 Jun 2002 WS: One of our biggest enjoyments was, you still didn t see ice-makers anymore. They delivered ice in a wagon drawn by a horse. That was one of our fun things. We would always get on the bumper, or what you want to call it. Then he'd make us get off [laugh]. That was it. WE: So, that was your entertainment back then. WS: Oh, we had our school dances and there was a country and western dance place right outside of town. When we got a little older we used to go out there. WE: As you were going through school, what kind of subjects interested you? Did you enjoy school, or was school a pain? WS: Oh yes, I enjoyed it. I wouldn't say what any particular subjects ... whatever was normal in the schools is what I had. Those days you didn't get a choice-"Do you want to take this or do you want to take that?" You took what they gave you, and that was it. And that was usually reading, writing, and arithmetic, in one of those forms. The reading could be history, it could have been almost anything. And the arithmetic was everything from addition, subtraction, division, everything. And in fact, I enjoyed my arithmetic more than I did anything else, because in high school, we had gone to the high school superintendent and asked him if he could teach us first-year trigonometry. He said, "If you get me enough people, I can." I said well, I said, "I got thirteen people lined up." "Okay, we'll do it." So, that's a first-year college trigonometry. Went through that. And my total grade-and I'm not bragging now on this-my total grade in high school for the last year when I was there-when I graduated, my total grade was ninety percent. WE: You did well, then. 4 |
