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R: Did the girls like it?
D: Virginia had a wonderful time. She was new and all of the boys were crazy
over her. Over here her clothes didn't look like much, but down there they
looked very glamorous. The whole thing, and Susan had to wear a school
uniform which was dreadful in high school. She was most miserable. It was
a segregated school of course. She had been having dates here and wearing
make-up and so forth. So this was hard and she dropped out of school and
got a job in a lawyer's office. In New Zealand they thought she
was never going back to school, but, of course, we knew that she would.
R: She had a mind of her own, too.
D: As soon as she was out of school,she went with the university group.
They went skiing and did other things.
R: What kind of church did you go to down there?
D: Well, it's pretty interesting. We didn't go to church a whole lot.
R: Most of the churches would have been Anglican.
D: I think so. You're asking questions that I'm not very familiar with. I
did write the Harris's that I thought our status must have gone up since we
belonged to the Episcopal church right then.
R: So you were there for just two months?
D: We were there for eleven months.
R: And then you came back?
D: We came back and the girls finished college.
R: What did they major in here at the university?
D: Virginia majored in political science and Susan majored in mathematics.
My mother, myself, and Susan and her children are mathematically inclined
too, so it must be a strong steak in the family.
R: Usually that's not true. Many girls don't like math.
D: It's so easy.
R: For some people it is, but it wasn't for me. Well Emma, when did you move
away from College Court?
D: We went to Burma in 1958. Both of the girls married in 1956.
R: The same year?
D: Within six weeks of each other.
R: How much differences are there between their ages?
D: Twenty-two months. Susan finished college a year earlier so they were just
one year apart in school.