I was always interested in education and took some additional courses, post-graduate, in chemistry, but I hated it. I said to my boss, what is this? Sounds like a small town and why are all these people going to Oak Ridge. I kept running across Oak Ridge, Tennessee. And of course, because they had worked for Eastman Kodak, many of them, they had moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I had to locate people who had moved and needed to pay their final bill. I was a person who had to locate, I was a final bill person. That was the first time that I had ever heard of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which meant absolutely nothing to me at the time. When I graduated in 1938 from high school, I went immediately to work in the telephone company as a telephone operator and worked there for five years before I went to the business office, where I worked as a representative. I followed an academic course, studying the usual classes to go to college and French. My education was at the public schools in Rochester. So we often went to concerts at Eastman Theater, and, I’m saying this because it turned out that when I came to Los Alamos, I was very much involved in music, as opposed to science. Of course, Rochester, New York, is where Eastman School of Music is located. My whole background, my whole family, was interested in singing. My father was the conductor of the Knights of Columbus Choral Society and church choirs. I was born in Rochester, New York, which is on Lake Ontario. Strottman: To start off the interview, I wonder if you could briefly tell me when and where you were born and a little something about your early education and training. We thank you so much for coming this morning. Theresa Strottman: It’s Saturday March 21, 1992, and it’s approximately 10:20 in the morning.
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