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T: Uh huh.
M: And what was your favorite subject?
T: I hadn't thought that one was any better than another until I
got in high school and then I liked the social sciences.
M: Usually I guess when you're in grade school everybody likes
recess anyway. Recess and lunch. You went to high school in the
same town then? What was the school curriculum like? Was it
like today's? Was it more geared toward educaion classes or
toward vocational classes?
T: No, you selected what you wanted to take, and
preparatory.
M: You knew it then that you were going to go to
graduated?
I took the college
college when you
T: Oh yes. Never heard of anything else.
M: What year did you graduate from high school?
T: In 1925.
M: And then you went right into college?
T: Uh huh.
M: Where did you go to college?
T: The University of Pittsburgh.
M: You went there for four years?
T: Three years, and then I taught, and then I finished.
M: You could get a certification to teach after three years?
T: Yes.
M: What courses did you have to take? What were the certification
requirements, do you remember those?
T: I took history for my major, or social studies, and english for my
minor. Nothing else made too much difference. I took freshman
biology my senior year, the very last course, because I had on
purpose neglected to take it.