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H: Is Miller your maiden name?

M: No, it's my married name.

H: What was your maiden name?

M: Mayson.

H: Where were you born?

M: I was born in Montgomery, Alabama.

H: Montgomery, Alabama. That seems to be a popular place.

M: Does it?

H: I think you're the third one [from Montgomery that has been interviewed].

M: Is that right? Well, Montgomery is the capital of Alabama, and a lot of people
 leave. I left there. I went to Atlanta. I went to school at Troy State and went to
 Troy State University, which is a stone's throw from Montgomery. Are you
 familiar with Troy State?

H: No.

M: It used to be Troy State College. It's about forty-five minutes from Montgomery.
 It's on the eastern coast of Alabama. It used to be Troy State College and then it
 became Troy State University, actually, in 1968. I went to school there. It was
 called a suitcase college because on the weekends everybody packed up their
 suitcases of dirty clothes and went home to wash them. Back when it was a
 college there wasn't a lot going on. When it became a university, the football
 team [came along]. Now it's an A football team. Back then, it wasn't very
 much. I always remember the funny thing when it became a university, they got
 us all in the gymnasium and they were telling everyone that it became a
 university. Everybody was hooping and hollering and what they actually did was
 they told us that we'd have a week off because it had become a university.
 Everybody was happy. The annual said, "Troy State Becomes a University."
 The reason they were laughing was because they were getting time off. When I
 graduated I went to Atlanta and met my first husband. He had been in the Coast
 Guard on St. Simons, and he wanted to move back to St. Simon's Island. I lived
 in Atlanta for a couple of years and then we moved back down to St. Simons.


H: So, that's how you got in this area, through your husband.