... And my hair I-don-t-know what it 's going to be yet. I 'm still thinking up or down. And the guys they can 't wear running-shoes. They have to wear dress-shoes. ... No um the external-affairs which is the gir-- a person on the P-T-A who gets to plan the dances and like special events, they get to pick where they want it to be.

... and an hour by street-car whatnot each way and ah organized um various union, left-wing meetings, groups ... with them, around the community, very active in the community affairs, as was my brother and ...

... I feel like I got a very good, um, grounding in, if not science-journalism, at least medical- journalism, because I have things now, I have knowledge now, that I can fall back-on when- in- in the job that I 'm in right now, which is public-affairs but I 'm specifically media relations, but it 's specifically about science and technology, because I knew I had to stay in something that had to do with science or else I 'd just get bored.

... the S-C-M is the student-Christian-movement and they theoretically are both Christian but the V-C-F is a more fundamentalist group and the S-C-M is a more radical political sort-of orientated group. It still exists, it 's more interested in religion and current affairs or religion and- and people or- or dealing with you-know jobs and- and- and Christianity or whatever ...

... we 've known Jack for a long time so, anyway we- if we ever- if he ever gets to be prime-minister then we 'll know the Prime-Minister of Canada, anyway so we 're into politics and we 're into sort-of local community affairs. My husband was the president of the local resident's- association twice in the seventies and we are still involved in- actually right now the issue is the expansion of that private school down the street and they want to build in their whole open area.

And I found all the cu-- extra-curriculars self-perpetuating in that they didn 't have like the Red-Cross and- and- let 's say Habitat-for-Humanity, or anything outside of what the school needed. It was all like religious-affairs-committee and- you know spirit-committee, so it was all very internal.

I- I was the co-chair of the religious-affairs-committee in grade-nine. Um, I got trained as a peer-counsellor. Um, I don't think I actually did much peer-counselling. But I got trained and it was a very worthwhile experience.

I ah I like to ah keep up with current events. I'm an expert on politics in my own version. Ah- world affairs. But I ah, I- I like to read. I read newspapers and magazines and ah a few books.

Even when you played later on, you played organized hockey, or softball, or- or football, or- or many of the other activities, ah, that you could find in- in the community. Or the- the drama clubs, or the art clubs, or world affairs clubs, and- and many of the other things, I-mean it was, ah- it was generally student-run, or, ah, teacher-guided, or- or coach-guided. Ah, and um, as I say, you j-- you just did a lot of things by yourself.

... was on council for two years. And then- it was two-year term. And then I begged off. I didn't run again 'cause I had three kids going to university almost at the- at the same time. So I figured I better pay off the bakery and look after my affairs.

Uncle Phil went to Vancouver to manage his affairs there and ah, when uncle Pat died in nineteen-thirty-seven he had seven-hundred-thousand acres of land and (inc) cattle-