Barbara P. Jacobsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 11, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 465

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BARBARA P. JACOBSEN JULY 11,2002 BAR: Yes, and again (while we were in Davis) my parents spent the winter with us. Dad would walk with the kids when they went to school. He'd take them and pick them up. The kids were very close to their grandparents. It was while we were in Davis that our second daughter (and third child) was born. We were there two years. The first year, I substituted. Then our daughter was born in January, and so the second year I taught. WIN: She was your third child? BAR: Yes. Then we came back to Logan. WIN: How long did you stay in Logan? BAR: Oh heavens, six years. I taught at the junior high school there. WIN: You still taught? BAR: I still did and Gene was at the University. He was the first principal of the Edith Bowen (Laboratory) School. That is the training school at Utah State. Then he moved over to the Department. I taught at the junior high. In the first place, I said I'd teach part-time. Part time meant that instead of teaching six classes, I taught four. You usually had a preparation period, but not if you were part time. So what was happening, I was getting half pay for doing five-sixths of a full time job. So they increased pay by giving me aPE class. I taught seventh grade English and had aPE class. But I enjoyed that. It gave me an opportunity to teach with a gal named Marilyn Painter. I enjoyed the faculty very much at the junior high school. In fact, the principal's wife lived just a few houses down from us. She took care of our baby. WIN: Both of you were teachers, did you get time off in the summer? BAR: We did. Except, Gene accepted the position of Dean of the Summer School at Utah State. I got involved in that. But usually, yes, we did take off summers. WIN: What would you during that time off? 32