MARLA:  So then you started training in Tanana?
 
BOB:  Yeah.  They called me up, my fare was all paid through Wien, and Andy, I went with Andy and had to go to Hughes Phillip or something, and Tanana.
 
MARLA:  Who did you go with, Andy who?
 
BOB:  Andy Anderson.  That's a Bush pilot from Bettles.  He flies up here with 185 or small plane.  Some -- I went Tanana, I was two weeks there and my first training. 

MARLA:  Do you remember when that was?
 
BOB:  Huh?
 
MARLA:  Do you remember when that was, what year that was?
 
BOB:  What year?  Gee, I forgot what day.  It was September, I knows it was September. 

MARLA:  Sometime in the '60s, or --

BOB:  No, it was later. 

MARLA:  Okay. 

BOB:  Maybe '68, I guess.  Some doctor in Tanana was -- Dr. Spark or something, I don't know his name.
 
MARLA:  So what did you do between 1953 and going to have training?  Were you still taking care of people? 

BOB:  I -- I would just drop by or when they come by, do this when people call me up or go see me, go see -- can I -- can you go see somebody, you know.  And I do. 

MARLA:  How did you know what to do?
 
BOB:  I don't know.  I mean, tried to help people when they got fever.  That's about it.  Clean them up a little bit, that's all.  I mean, not a hell of a lot.  The only thing they got is -- we got is aspirin like Vicks and Vaseline.  Yeah. 

MARLA:  Do what you have to with what you have. 

BOB:  Nothing.  I got nothing.
 
MARLA:  So you went for training in Tanana? 

BOB:  Yeah.
 
MARLA:  And what was that like?  Can you tell me about that?
 
BOB:  It was like -- it's nice.  I mean, they -- you had a nurse, you have a nurse to train health aide in Tanana, I was not the only one.  There was some of the people from the villages down -- downriver or upriver.
 
MARLA:  Do you remember anybody else you were training with, any of those people, any of those names?
 
BOB:  No, I -- no, not too much. 

MARLA:  Okay.
 
BOB:  I seen somehow a doctor called me, I would say in the hospital.  And we would go around and visit sick ones.  And he took me around to the patient, to the patient he's got, the doctor.  Yeah. 

MARLA:  So did you learn -- in that first training you learned first aid and also how to work with patients in the hospital?
 
BOB:  Yeah.  Yeah.
 
MARLA:  And then when you came back to Anaktuvuk Pass, where did you work out of when you took care of people?
 
BOB:  My home. 

MARLA:  So people came here?
 
BOB:  People do -- not in this house.  Across.  They come and see me, yeah.  Whenever they have -- kids have a fever or something. 

MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  You know, take care of a little bit of cut or something.  Yeah.
 
MARLA:  And -- and then how did you talk to the doctors?
 
BOB:  Well, in the old days, the school has an old radio, like those Army type old radio, sort of big one.  You know how them Army radios.
 
MARLA:  Yeah. 

BOB:  That's what they had, yeah, Army radios.  In the old days like, you know, big thing.