Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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was served, and a little supper. You know, not a big djrulOer or anything
like that. So one time when our re@m womn were getting the =freshrents,
I was helping them. And they said, "No, you don't, no, no. " She
showed m. I had to gt butter. I was just putting it I$ here, you know.
I had to pt it all around the edge.
Q. Oh, when you were buttering the bread. She wanted yov to butterr the
whole slice .instead of just the dddle.
A. Yes, yes. Absolutely. Well, so there came athe when Russia wlas,
while we were there [at Col~urbla] Russia was having pretty mch of a stwtion
tire. They were short; on their crops. People were bungry. So we decided
that we'd @ve our evening price for the supper and anything else in
addition that we wanted to eve, to Russia. What did we Jlo? Well, the
table was all set, that is the tableclothes were on, but Qot a~ly food showed
up. But after the program we had Russian mic and Russi sinmg and
music and speeches. And we stood in a body, well, in a ? ole row amund
this circle. Bch lit a candle. And we would li&t the fiext candle. We' d
have a light and we'd U@t the next candle and go on all mund. That was
b~~ all the nations together in good fezlowship. So that was one of
the things.
Q. Did all the nations participate? Did all the girls pwicipate?
A. Well, they did, yes. No, I was the only one from our departmnt and
that was because I had been over to those countries and that was to the
@iental countries. I wax never in mope though. We h@ students fYom
there, you see. Then they built the International House, Rockefeller built
it, on Riverside Drive. Because I was a m&er of the In$emational, Club,
but I didn't live in--they send me comdcations like I bve lived there,
and I've notified them that I have nevm lived there, but I was a rmrher of
the club. I associated with a great many of the other rimes fmm ?road.
Some of them do very fine work, they were very earnest. !
But these different Chinese girls at our table. Then thew was one, it was
this older one, that was the boss. She had clubfeet. She just had little
stwrrps . But she didn' t talk mch. And then we had a wow who was
would you call her? She was the head of everybody, else, all the w
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that is, she was a clubwoman. She was learning all she could pick about
birth control and was going to take if back to China and teach them. Well,
this little Miss he, it was very sad about her. She was an attrac ive little
thing. She didn't want to go back to China, but her fatwr wrote hqr and
told her she had to corn back. She was honor bound became she had Ithis
had no practice at all. It was all study, all the theor$
Q. What field was she in?
A. Well, she was a tea*.
Q. In?
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