Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
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Q. They never mde up a song for you?
A. No, well there were too rrany, they would have to make
body and they couldn't do it. (chuckles)
them up fop every-
&.
?Pney couldn't play favorites?
A. No, well I guess no one in that position did.
Q. Yes. Wet re down here, near the back end of the lower
anything else down there?
deck.
Was there
A. Back of the ward on that deck, that is fwher on tow;
that was where the personnel m ng room was.
Q. So you all ate there together, nmes and doctors?
A. Yes, we had to go in shifts. I don't man that they : ?parated doctors
from nurses. Somebody had to stay on the wards and sombc 3y had to eat.
We had a special fourth of July dinner.
. Q. Yes, I think you told n+e about that.
Q. Does that do the lower deck here?
A. That is this, yes it is the lowest deck. On the othe
and on this side I think was the kitchen. Then I wanted t
that drill. What we would do [in case of fire].
Q. What kind of drill?
A. Well, what we would do with all our babies. We would
person would cavry two, there would be enow personnel tc
Q. This is emrgency drill in case somthing happened to
there enough of you to take care of all those babies?
rds the rear,
A. Ice cream and Salmn, f"resh smn. That's good, I'd Like to have some
now. I like fish and I don't &t it. I don't get d m t c that fish place
downtown, and I don't see it in the market, that I Want. C like catfish,
I like Pt cawt out in the l&. P@ brother, when he wa: here, held get
it and I'd get-som of it. Well, anyhow.
- side of this,
) tell you about
:amy two, each
get them off .
.he boat? Were
A. Well X think m, 1t wouldn't have to be a nume. We1
a place if they had to ga. Then there was a crew, yau knc
everybody had
Q. Were you assfgned to certain cribs to take those babie
A. Well, I would have to supervise it if I was-in charge
d&t. You could really take f~ur babies if you had big e
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