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S: He was always planning.
P: He was.

S: Do you think that Dr. Prystowsky had more of a sense of humor under his
 exterior?

P: Yeah, I think so.

S: How long was he dean?

P: Ten years.

S: Did you pretty much fill the same position the entire time that he was dean?

P: That Dr. Prystowsky was dean?

S: Yes. General secretarial office work. Transcription, telephones, just whatever
 he needed. I also bought his cigarettes, he was a smoker and he'd send me off
 to buy his cigarettes which is something I'm sure somebody in this chair today
 would not do. But yes, we used to buy his cigarettes and put them in the
 refrigerator.

S: The chair wouldn't send you out to get his cigarettes or wouldn't smoke? Or
 both?

P: Both. I don't think a woman sitting here would go out and buy cigarettes either,
 but heck I was young, what did I know? The boss said, go buy cigarettes. I
 went and bought his cigarettes. Today that would not happen I'm sure. [It] didn't
 bother me, didn't bother any of us. We did it and we laugh about it today, it's a
 good story. He was a hoot, he was a hoot.

S: Since you did keep in contact with Dr. Harrell, we'll just continue to talk about
 what he was doing afterwards. He worked on the Osler project in Maryland and
 his book. How long was he in Maryland after he left here, do you know?

P: No, I don't remember. Several years. He put his name in for the retirement
 home at Duke. It had been in for a long time and finally they were accepted, but
 the bad thing about that was Mrs. Harrell needed hip replacement and you had to
 be able to walk into that home and she did it. She had her hip replacement and
 she walked into that home.

S: How long after the hip replacement?


P: Not long as I recall, not long at all.