Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
things of that kind needing m. But my function with the
of the YWCA of Springfield, in a little while, I discover
somthing ought to be done about the name tags. Instead
the mmbers of the class come in and scratch through a bi
tags to find their tag, I said, "Why canlt we have two ca
spread them out alphabetically?" And that s what started
that for, I can't tell you, I thhk I was about in ng sec
attending and that was 1945, let's see, not 1945, 1955 I
that I, oh . . . I think it was 1958 when I moved here.
Q. Oh, you were in California then for nine years?
A. No, I was here, in 1951 I cam. Now, when did I leav
xible class
1 that
e having
pile of
zd year in
nlnk, 1958
Q. You left in May in 1949, you left Chicago.
A. 1949, and then I was here in 1951. Tlaat gives me twc
there. Two winters, I think it was mybe a year and a ha
corn out; that way. It looks llke my neighbor was moving.
what I was saying.
years out
f if the dates
I don't !mow
Q. That you moved back to Sprlngfield in 1951.
A. Yes.
Q. You didn't join the bible class until 1958?
A. That's right, that's rigZlt because sister-ln-law,
deceased, Mrs. HaYry Tittm-she was Ger*t;rude Lnsley-s
person that she rode with, a teacher, I can't recall her
but they picked m up, they said they would pick r~ up i
I went. So I liked it and I always got a ride and if I
ride home, I was walking and I could walk. I liked
into being in charge of attendance records of it.
they cam in the mmhg. But the acclamation count
than the one that they wrote down on the* entrance.
little late and wanted to pick up a bible and get a c
forty-ef@t yestem at or
it's, been in the forties for
Q. J&~Wnacclamation
A. well, that ream3 "be, four," they
cow& as it goes down the
acclamation.
ask?: Well, then it a rep& for
and I ad that.
Of course, som
believe it begins after, well, we have got one w m t
good deal and takes up the teacher's tlm, but it .
come~l out alright. We have a wonderw teacher,
had but this one puts a great deal of tW in he
in @tthew now. We 've studied all the other prophet
I
I