would, in the afternoons at the library after I had done my

homework and ah most, most of my time was spent at home. We didn't

have a lot of places to go for young people you know and ah, we

went to the movies on Saturday (laugher). But Booker T. was like

the hub, they always had some activities going on at the school

 (Ms. Daily): The next set of questions I ask you will be

regarding employment from 1945 to 1970. The first one is, describe

the jobs you had.

 (Mrs. Shannon): I only had one and that was Booker T.

Washington when I came out of college in 1944. I started working

at Booker T. Washington, my alma mater umm in 19...September, 1944

and didn't stop until 40 years later, 1984.

 (Ms. Daily): What did you do?

 (Mrs. Shannon): I first started as classroom teacher, then a

counselor, then a test person, did all the testing.

 (Ms. Daily): What year, years did you have this job?

 (Mrs. Shannon): 1944 to 1984.

 (Ms. Daily): What kind of hours did you work?

 (Mrs. Shannon): (Laughter) Well doing those hours, times, we

 had so much to try to get into minds of the kids until sometime I

 would stay after school and work with kids til 5:00 o'clock.

 (Ms. Daily): When and why did you leave those jobs?

 (Mrs. Shannon): I retired.

 (Ms. Daily): How did you find work? How did you find your

 job?

 (Mrs. Shannon): Ah, Charles L. Williams was the principal of


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