Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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been with us two years now, a Mrs. Duncan, She's woj?th h ing and
listening to but she has a discussion. It's good, the on thing that
bothers m, and I have a little loss of hearing, I can hev the teacher
always because I sit on the mnt seat near her, but they don't hear,=
when I give an answer or a question and I can't hear them
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talk down and they should get up and talk straight ahead d loud but
we miss so much of the discussion because a person way o r here in this
big room and one way over here. Then they talk, when the$'??@ looklng
down like this, their voice goes down, it doesn't go Out., That is one
thing that I think. Then as they lea=, they must drop t eir cards down
and if you know where to put it, okay, try to put it in i s place or near
the place, but don't hesitate to put it down anywhere you1 want. We
arrange them alphabetically before we put them away.
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Q. As we conclude our oral ;Interview, do you want to exp ain how you
got into this project?
A. Yes. Ply sister-in-law, Gertrude . . .
Q. No, I mean into the oral bterview, the history f
doing.
A. Oh, well, I inquired and I was told that it was t
Fitz had recomnded me for it. She happened to lanow
ground that I had and experience and she was interest
to talk to her class in the evening and I begged off
Well, I don't know anyhow I didn't do it. I thought
far away fPom public speaking, although I had done a
rrake rq voice in a big hotel room, ballroom, (chuckle
speaker. Of course I can't now and couldn't then. E
said to her, 'Ww you see what you got m Into. " (ch
wonderful for me to be associated with so mmy fine w
the same purpose of list
teacher and h
the bible. The social
or picn-tcs or sore
we , . . I think
because there ne
we've seen ttat the inside
and is attracti
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/ue have been
WCA ma kha,t Mrs.
le of the bdck-
She wanted me
use I really . . .
s kind of too
of it. I could
thout a loudrs.
Fitz, I
e) But it was
altogether with
ng you interpret
't, have parties
db, 1 guess, but
its hardships to0
o do, but recently
there is fortyeight womn t
the* own f'riends that they
, those who have
old as I am. I
haw been a mmber the longedt of any rmrber in the c
shcqdd run across sowbody ' s record of the living one
how^.
shaws up that I
h. But if they
would lose rry