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R: Had she been to college?
D: Yes, she went to a junior college in Kentucky, and majored in mathematics,
which was the family's strong trait all of the way.
R: So by the time you got to high school in Orlando, you were changed from one
school to another?
D: I changed every year that I was there.
R: That must have been very _
D: It was difficult. About the time I was making friends I had to go to another
school.
R: Why was that?
D: Because they were building new schools and each time I was in a different one.
They kept changing the district. It was not a happy school life.
R: You didn't meet John down there, did you?
D: Oh no. I met him in college.
R: Did you have any particular boyfriends in high school?
D: I suppose every girl does. I had a number of them. I kept it...
R: Secret...
D: No, I just liked to go with a lot of different people.
R: You were interested in music then? I know that you are interested in music now.
D: I took music from the time I was a little girl. I did not major in music.
in college. My sister did, and I knew that I wouldn't be as good.
R: Where did you go to college?
D: I went to college at Coker College, in Hartsville, South Carolina.
R: Why did you pick that?
D: Well, it was a small Baptist school that gave good scholarships,and Florida
was in the depth of its depression in 1926.
They had an enormous real estate boom here in the early 1920s. I know my
best friend's father in Orlando was a real estate man and they were feeling
very smug because they thought they had two million dollars. They woke up
one morning and they didn't have anything.
R: Did you come to Orlando at the beginning of the boom?