P: But you were able to get everything done in twelve months?

M: I was able to get everything completed because they gave me credit for some
 of the work I had done at the University of Florida. Had they not done that,
 I would never have completed the program in that period of time.

 The business school did not award a C.P.A., and I found out that I would
 have to go work for a C.P.A. firm for at least a year before I would be
 qualified to take a C.P.A. examination. I began looking, then, for a C.P.A.
 firm. I thought first of Greensboro where the young lady with whom I was
 enamored lived. I also thought of West Palm Beach where. Although I did
 not have family there anymore, I had a lot of background. I also had a friend
 who had been in a course with me, and we were the only two Southerners in
 a Yankee class. We were quite the butt of a lot of jokes because of our
 speech, so we developed quite an affinity for each other. When he got an
 offer from a bank in Houston he urged me to go down there during my spring
 break for an interview. Consequently, I wrote to some firms in Houston, and
 I went down to interview. I had gotten no encouragement from other places
 that I had looked for a job.

P: Where did you get a job? What company did you go to work for?

M: It was a company called F. G. Masquelette & Company--F. as in Frank and
 G. as in George.

P: What kind of a salary did they offer you?

M: They offered me $275 a month--$250 a month for my M.B.A. and $25 extra
 for my law degree.

P: Was that a good salary for those days?

M: I could have gotten as high as $350 or $375 if I had been willing to live in
 the North, but I had told the people at Wharton that I was not interested in
 anything above the Mason-Dixon Line.

P: So you went to Houston.

M: I went to Houston.

P: You were still single; you were not married yet.

M: I was still single.

P: So you have not hooked up with that lady from Greensboro.


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