Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
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<strong>Anna</strong> Tittm<br />
Q. That you two girls had rdssed your train?<br />
A. I thhk one other person was in the pup. Our baggage was on, you<br />
see, but Miss Dalbey wore a Wonic pin that belonged to ber father.<br />
She went to the station rn when we got left, and we got pll the attention<br />
we needed, get this next train, not to womy, and so on.<br />
I<br />
But when we got back, she was the first one to tell MP.<br />
(chuckles) couldn't keep it. It was a<br />
he would hire an autombile, and I would get an<br />
Miss Dalbey and maybe one or two others.<br />
house for us nurses.<br />
Q. Isnl t that interesting?<br />
f<br />
A. We &Ldnlt go there in crowds at all.<br />
I<br />
Q. He ldnd <strong>of</strong> eGoyed all <strong>of</strong> you cute young things stopping in to see him? ,<br />
A. Well, I think he did. He was very good to m. When I was working for<br />
the state, I was appointed by the governor, Governor Dunn, as a mmb$r <strong>of</strong><br />
the Board <strong>of</strong> Nurse Examiners. It was the State Nurses Asgociation that<br />
recomnded me and had decided that a downstate active penson was Important<br />
at that tk. (pause) I forgot what I was going to tell [you]. C41, because<br />
I was not Civil Service and position was not mntioned 1,in the law, the<br />
Nurses Practice Act, salary was withheld. When they diiscovered this the<br />
legislature got busy. llTnose who xe not Civil Service should have their<br />
salary nan-ed in the Nurses Practice Act, in the law <strong>of</strong> Ill@nois. " It would<br />
concern anwer <strong>of</strong> people, not just m. Eventually them was an emation<br />
held, but I didn't have the mmy to live on all this perlpd. It was somthing<br />
like eight mnths. Mss Dalbey told<br />
"Well, Ill1 lend her the money. She'll get it<br />
loaned m the mey. I wouldn't have known<br />
a bank, you how, if it hadn't been for-him.<br />
Q. Did he &e you pay interest?<br />
A. No, he didnt t . (chuckles) So well, that's about it.<br />
Q.<br />
I<br />
Where would you go on your drives?<br />
A. Out in the-comtxy.. Out on South Sixth Street usual<br />
was a dirt road then. And I always liked to go past the<br />
cause they had a peacock.<br />
Q. Where was their horn?<br />
A. %re on south sixth street. mey were fmm. matks nly older<br />
brother's wifels home, she's dead. She died just this ye&. Well, I guess<br />
that l s--oh, the story <strong>of</strong> Texas, do you want that now? Welt, ;the story<br />
was...<br />
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