now let me back up, i was born, i have to be born so i was born in montpelier new jersey, in july of 1923. and i left new jersey, went to pennsylvania in 1936, and my dad was there, he was working there's, then we move to a small town called,'s new angola station. that is near mountaintop pennsylvania. which is near hazel ten. 's i went to a school, a two room school house in the seventh and eighth grade. this then when i went to this high school, i had to take a bus, that was in mountaintop pennsylvania. when we moved out there, we were the only family of color out there. so i did not run into any segregation whatsoever. i was treated just like any other person. so segregation never entered my mind. no problems. i went to high school four we did, not you know really the only sport we had was basketball, and a tumbling team, and i was an anchorman on the tumbling team, and captain of the basketball team. in my senior year, another lady of color came in. now there are two of us in the school online senior year. my senior year i was class president and valedictorian. i did not know anyt