Nana Biography

So anyway, I loved that part of it. I loved collecting the money and counting it and putting it in the bank, and it paid for a little, it paid for the kids allowances, and so on. 

This was out of your own money you used as capital?   

Yes 

Isn’t there something?  - After you were divorced, you were looking for a way to earn some money or do something?

Yes, I didn’t really need the money, but I would rather do something like that, well I must say, maybe I didn’t need the money, to maintain certain things.  Yes I certainly did. I wasn’t, I didn’t need a full-time job, let’s put it that way, and I didn’t want one. So, this seemed, this seemed way to bring in something.

I’m just interested in how it came to you to do this? 

Well, there aren’t many things, I didn’t want to go work in a store and be a clerk, and I didn’t want to, I did, when John and I were married, and I had a full-time made, and he was on a small salary and he came to Stanford making nothing, something like $6200 was his starting salary, and I had money coming in from the divorce, but suddenly boarding school was hitting. One of the boys wanted to go to boarding school, and there were more expenses, and you know. Things cost more, so we gave up the maid, that was it. Well, the vending route went first, then she went. Then of course he got raises, I didn’t really need to make any money after that. I really didn’t, and there was enough money coming in from everything. But we had to watch it. Once the children were in boarding school, they got scholarships, but even so to get them Back here, the back here. But, the money, it’s, I guess maybe I feel this way. I think I let a competitive life by growing up and only playing with little boys as a child, I had to fend for myself when we played Cowboys and Indian Indians, I was either the Indian or the Cowboys, and all the rest were chasing me, I was, I sort of liked the competition, I liked to play in tournaments where there are rules and where you, I don’t like to play for fun.

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