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by Connie L. Fleissner [A note from the Administrator: Betty, Until Now appears to have been a school assignment for Miss Fleissner in 1934.] Her days started back in December 28, 1917, in Chicago. Her mother was of pure Yankee blood from way back when...

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) The best thing about my life is I was free. Nobody picked on me. Nobody said you’ve got to do this or you’ve got to do that and you felt in your heart that it had to amount to something. My family had a lot of people...

(as told by Vernon Work Myers) I don’t remember Hoover but he spoke like an undertaker. The stock market would go down every time he spoke. Roosevelt was so different. He was a great orator. People either liked or disliked Roosevelt. It was hard to find...

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) After Vernon and I were married, we lived in Park Ridge for one year because after the war we couldn’t find a place to live. There was a big group of people looking for houses. My father and mother had room so we...

(as told by Vernon Work Myers) It was sort of by chance that I got into physics. Geneva College was close to where I lived so that’s where I went as an undergraduate. I took a physics course and worked as a lab assistant in the physics lab. I got paid...

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) Vernon and I were married on June 6, 1947 in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Park Ridge, Illinois. We had a very nice rehearsal dinner beforehand. One of Vernon’s colleagues from the Argonne Laboratory in Chicago...

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) When you’re going with a guy and you’re a girl it used to be that he would always come over to your house to take you out. I don’t know what the mores are nowadays. But the day he invites you over to his house,...

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) My friends and I went to the junior officer’s club once in a while. We all belonged. If you were too old you couldn’t belong. That is if you were too far along in the hierarchy of officers, you couldn’t belong....

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) It was a different time then. It was complete mobilization in the great country of the USA and Canada. I was working in Chicago at the DuPont paint factory and I wanted to broaden my life a little. So I decided...

(as told by Vernon Work Myers) My father CLINTON worked on the WPA and on roads. The WPA paid about $30 a month to the people. Not much, but it was very good. It kept people employed. The WPA deliberately used a lot of hand labor, like having the people...

(as told by Elizabeth Perkins Buchheit) After William John Foy died, my grandmother Maggie Perkins married again. She married a very nice guy named AUBREY STAUFFER. He was a musician. He wrote a lot of music and he went to Hollywood. He wrote for the...