"It was a one-room school house, all eight grades."
     Question: "Just tell me about the pie supper."
     "Well, in the rural areas, [they were] for money making projects and social, too. It was chance for everybody in the school and the neighborhood to get together. Come about 7:00 [o'clock], all the women brought in their pies. And there were tables set up for the pies and cakes. The young men would get out – and boys – would play, like baseball, is what I recall, because it was in the spring. And the girls were over talking and chatting and giggling and laughing [laughs] and wondering who was going to buy their pie.
     "So then, I think they introduced me since I was the teacher. And I told them how much I enjoyed working with their children. And I was glad they came to the party, and I hoped they had a good time.
     "It was obvious that if there was a certain pie that a certain boy wanted to buy, well then the rest of the kids would bid it up. Some of them would go as high as $5 or $6. There was one couple – they didn't go to school, but they were engaged, I'd say they were in their 20s – so, they ran his pie up to about $10. And they made quite a bit of money that way.
     "And then after they'd sold all the pies, they had this contest of the 'Prettiest Girl.' So, I don't remember who nominated me, but I remember that after we were nominated well then they said, 'All the pretty girls stand up.' And then they started casting their votes to see who was the [prettiest]. I have a vague recollection of winning. Well, I felt real pleased, and I felt like the community approved of me, because I really didn't think I was the prettiest. But I just thought that it was kind of an honor since I'd been teaching their children. And the children voted for me. So I thought well they like me and like the way I'd been teaching them.
     "I met a young man in college, and he was pre-med. We were married in 1941, and then that November [actually December 7] Pearl Harbor was attacked. And then they called him [drafted him]. He became a private, a 'Pfc.' [Private First Class] He went down to Fort Sill for indoctrination, and came back. And he went to med school as a Pfc.
     "So, I was fulfilled as a housewife and mother."