I worked for Mr. Hopping and Mr. Evans keeping books for their farm loan company. I was also taking organ lessons at Kendall College. I had permission to practice on the organ at Tate-Brady Convention Hall. The manager of the convention hall asked me whether I might consider taking a a job at the hall booking the various shows since I liked music so well. He said he could teach me the job very quickly. I jumped at the offer! I was thrilled that all the operas and artists that I had always wanted to hear (and could seldom afford to on my salary) I would be able to hear free. I worked at this job for three years before my marriage.

By the time that the shows which I booked my first season for the theaters in Tulsa were over for the winter, I began to look for a place to get away for the summer because of the hot weather Tulsa always had in the summer. I found it in an ad for school teachers to earn money while training on the job.

I went to J. S. Hopping and Mr. T. D. Evans (then mayor of Tulsa) and Mr. Hunter. Mr. Hopping was president of Producers National Bank and Mr. Hunter was a lawyer. All three were in the farm loans building. I went in to talk about my going away and ask whether they considered this type of summer job to be good for me. 

Mr. Hopping said it wouldn't be very good to go so far alone but to write if I needed any money. I could cash a check made out simply to our bank and I could have any amount I needed. Then I could pay back the amount out of my next check in the fall when I returned to my booking job.

I had a week's training in Kansas City where I met Mr. Hopping's sister and also spent some time with my cousin Eathyle. While there we even attended a meeting of friends of a political party. My training included learning everything I could about the Standard Dictionary of Facts. I then decided that due to the summer heat I would like to try my hand at selling these dictionaries in a lake area where it would be cooler. 

I chose Wisconsin. When I reached Milwaukee, I stayed all night at a hotel. The next day I went to Plymouth, my assigned area, and stayed one night in the hotel there. I went to a Lutheran minister and asked where I might rent a room in a nice home. He directed me to his neighbor Mrs. Franey. She rented me an upstairs bedroom. Jim White rented a downstairs bedroom. There also was one other male boarder. Mrs. Franey and I sometimes played cards with the two men.

Once I started to go upstairs and opened the door to the basement and fell spraining my ankle. Often I would go buy the meat and Mrs. Franey and I would cook our dinner. One Sunday I met a couple of girls who had come up from Milwaukee to visit a couple of the local young men who ate at the same boarding house as I did. 

They asked me how my book sales were going and I told them the book wasn't selling too well. They said they could take me to their company. I did apply for a job there and in a few days I got a long distance call telling me I had gotten the Milwaukee job. It would be working in a moving picture theater.

In the meantime, I had heard about an innovative new instrument known as the radio. This interested me very much because I had been told that there were actually two of these radios in Plymouth. Two young men had built one of these two and I was curious to see it. My landlady knew the young men and made arrangements for me to visit them and hear it. This was my introduction to radio--and my introduction to Erwin Schad.

The first thing I said about the radio was, "It smells like something dead." Erwin explained that the smell was formaldehyde. It wasn't unusual for people to some listen to the radio. It was such a novelty. The radio power was a Ford battery and we used earphones to hear. KDKA Pittsburg was the main station we could hear in Wisconsin.

It was a couple of days after I had met Erwin and had seen his radio that he came over to see me. He asked me to a Lutheran church dinner. From then on we went some place together every night. He came down to Milwaukee every weekend after I took the job there. I didn't work in the theater very long. I quit to take a job in a dress shop within walking distance of where I was staying. I stayed at the YWCA which was right on the lake.

Erwin and I went to all the parks around Milwaukee. One evening we were sitting on a bench and it began to get dark. We sat for a few minutes longer and a policeman shined his light on