KAREN: So you were a health aide from 1961?

AGNES: Volunteer, yeah, until 1975, '70.

KAREN: Did you like being a health aide?

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative). I did. I enjoyed it. And during the time we were health aides, we made house calls to patients that came back from the hospital, especially the elders. Make sure they were doing ok. Making sure they took their medication and their exercises and then we took care of the immunizations. We were getting good at that. Make sure that all the kids were caught up with their shots.

KAREN: What other kinds of things did the health aides do?

AGNES: Raise money. We had a health council and we raised money to bring a dentist in. And then mental health program. Sounds like there was something else. Oh, Marge will tell you all about it.

KAREN: Did you do health education kinds of things for the kids, besides immunizations?

AGNES: Uh-hum (affirmative). Dental, flouride.

KAREN: Okay.

AGNES: Then we started prenatal. That was fun.

KAREN: What was fun about it?

AGNES: Well, you got to teach somebody something. New mothers how to take care of their babies. And you tell them: “Make sure you get their shots taken care of, when they're of age.” How to give them a bath, how to change their diaper. I don't know, it was --