Alberta Freshman, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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Alberta Freshman 2 interview p.19 L A L But I never --it seemed funny that those that liked me the most, I did~t like. And so that made--- I don't know that's the way it happened .. ~s I told you the man I liked so very much turne ~ut to be married and that was hard on me. How old were you then when that happened. ~ I was in my thirties. There was one fellow hwo became a/awyer andAI was in Ne~~~ing to school, he was in my class, then I waas a kid. I think I told you. ~t back to N.Y. 5 years ago and I looked up in the phone book an dhe was still in law, a law office. But I didn't call him up . I knew he was married the last, I knew so I didnt call him. How people before the 30s before birth control pills came into effect, how did people practice birth control. A I don't know if you trjed having a relationship like that it~ld be terrible. In my circle of friends, it would n't be accepted at all as correct behavior for a girl. L Married people. What did people do when they didn't want to have more children .. A That's hard. I think as far as I know. Uterine devices were used then. L LEgally. A Doctors inserted thing like that. L Nothing illegal. A But you couldn't get contraceptivs if you were unmarried. Like you have planned parenthood here and things like that. You.couldn't have anything like that. If you took a chance and became pregannt, well that was an awful thing that would happento you.The whole family would be in disgrace as well as you. There was quite a differnt kind of world. L Do you know people that that happened to. A I ddin't know them well. I heard about them.4nd,~ course,it was i considered a terrible disgrace. But no one in' my immediate family or circle of~ friends. And th Epi 11 of course was unhtrd of. L During those days of WWII and after, were your friends~ish or non Jewish. A Non of them are jewish. L WAs that something that just happened. A As I said, I didn't go totemple.~d where I lived 1they were all gentile people. ,,, ...... Mormons call themgeR~t gentiles if they're not mormon-- ... Jnd the teachers with whom I taught were all non ~wish until I was at Oil--at Bonneville) and there was one jewish teacher there.Andi still know her . . She's a widow now. Whenl was at Dilworth, there wdltnoe-jewish teachers. I think that was the only one in the whole 46 years that was in the i teaching staff with me. L Mostof the people when you sta~d were women. II