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H: You came to St. Simons with your husband.

M: He was a land surveyor. That's what he did for a living.

H: How did you start working for Sea Island?

M: It was kind of odd. How you end up places is very strange a lot of times. I
 didn't have a job. I had left Atlanta. He, of course, did [have a job]. I was just
 looking for something. Bryan had a friend who went to church with Billy Gibson,
 and Mr. Gibson needed a secretary. I thought, well, I could do that for a while till
 I find what I want to do. Actually, he didn't need a secretary. They needed a
 floating-type person, someone just to fill in when someone was out of work, if
 someone was sick or whatever. I went and interviewed with him. I was very
 young. I was twenty-two years old. I went and talked to him and he said, oh
 yes, yes, yes, this would be good. We can hire you for this job. I said, okay. I
 worked in the engineering department at Sea Island for a while when one of the
 ladies there was ill. I worked at the garage for a while. That was interesting.
 Back then, you had the garage manager, and then I was in charge of the
 transportation part of Sea Island. Now, it's massive. It's just a massive
 department. Then it was very, very small. Then I ended up in human
 resources. Mr. Gibson needed a secretary. I was a terrible secretary.
 Anyway, bless his heart, he put up with me. I would also help with the domestic
 help for, down the drive, in the cottages. They had a lady who was in charge of
 getting domestic help for the cottage owners. I would find the ladies to go down
 there for them. Mr. Gibson started the credit union for the employees of Sea
 Island. It was very small. It was a one-lady office. We did the books by hand.
 There was a lady in there and she was going to leave and go to another credit
 union, so she needed someone to help her at that time. She taught me how to
 do the books. I had some accounting in college, so I had a basic knowledge of
 accounting. She taught me how to do the books. Then, when she left, I took
 over the very, tiny, little credit union.

H: Was the credit union in the Sea Island complex?

M: Originally, the human resources was in the Cloister. Behind the Cloister, there
 was the food purchasing department and there was a little area, it was only three
 offices and a bathroom. It had a reception area. It was kind of a 'U' shape.
 Human Resources was in that part of the 'U' and then food purchasing was here.
 We were in with the Human Resource department and had a little bitty office.
 We had a waiting room that seated--it was so funny-the bathroom was here, it
 was terrible, and we had a waiting room that sat two people and then, my office.
 When anybody went into the bathroom you had to make sure there was nobody
 waiting for the credit union because it was just right there. It was so funny. It
 was a very small area. I was the only employee. We had quite a few