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Show Alberta Freshman 6-3 p.5 I told them I just didn't feel right about it--there being so much preparation and I didn't have the time , because I spent so much time with my teaching -- I was teaching. So, that -- but anyway, it was very differnt. And they were more affluent ~~~-- in New York, SOJ1life was very different. We'd go away in the summer and have a live in maid. We'd go in hired cars with a chauffer. Go away to New Jersey or Penns. for the summer. L Were you frightened by the size of New York? A No I think the thing that!Dthered me most was when I stayed with/~R~ aunt around the corner from Green avenue, on Lexington, 538 Lexington , also right on the corner of Sumner. The elevat~train went right in front there on the treet and you could hear the vi~~tions--;iRe house because it was a 3-story house. And I didn't like that) e~ee~3e the noise both~red me. But I went to a great big school--that was very different. ThmJe ~over 1,000, 4-stories high.But there at the school, the discipline was just the opposite. I twas very very formal. You marched in and marched up the three or four flights, whatever it was at the time. In twos. I remember some of the teachrs and what they did. One always put the tea children she thought naughty under the desk. And there they would stay, you know. But I also was treated very diffi erentlyJbecause my aunts said I couldn't run around because of my heart. lit Other children would go a~e~Re- and run around. And I had to stay in at recess and the teacher would give me her purse to hold~ and that's how I spent my recesses while she went somewhere else. I ha.ud.. ...s.o ..m.... e friends, c.., • e. ( later on, , that I made in school. It wasn't as easy as other children ffiake ;t, had QT) : · ... , ... .. '- §EJRC te ~ehee~ •c;.. - ::- H ~ ··· ·· • And then they didn't have playground equipment. When we came early, it was cold and we'd be down i~the basement in~hool. And we had a certain area in which we could stay and they had monitors and the monitors would tell the teacher if you didn't do everthing just right. >It was a very different ~ discipline ~ school - it was much more informal where! came from. But my home ~ environment discipline was just theopposite. ~r L So what was it that finally brought you back--how did th~y deci9e ~Rey you were O.K. ,...,.. .; - AI ~ , • .1 """' A Well, the doctor said that I'd be able to go back. Some ~l.at l.:i-ke, itJ:s like half the elevation of Colorado 1 so that made a difference to. L The elevation was a problem for you. A Yes, for the heart condition, yes. It was so much better being a functional problem. It wasn't anything that couldn't get better with proper treatment and medication. And a 1 so, ,..,._ "'\ ¥-+-1 ri >I J l life, I wasn't as active, had plenty of rest and that sort of thing. But. L Did you come back by train? A Oh, yes. L Do you remember that. A Oh, yes, I~ loved the trains. I'll never forget them. It was wonderful toAwake~ in the morning and look out the windows and at night and see the moon andpass by |
