KAREN: Today is May 31st, 2006.  This is Karen Brewster here in Juneau with Jessie Jim, who is visiting from Angoon, and this is for the Community Health Aide Project.  Thank you for coming in a day earlier. 

Tell me a little bit about yourself, and your background, and when and where you were born?

JESSIE: I was born in Angoon. Born and raised in Angoon.  I went to Mt. Edgecumbe high school, used to send us off to boarding school. And, graduated from there.  I stayed home for a year after I graduated. 

Then, I went to PN (Practical Nurse) training in Mt. Edgecumbe.  Became a LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse).  And, worked in the hospital in Mt. Edgecumbe for a year. And got married there, and my first husband died when he was pretty young from stomach cancer.  After he passed away then I moved back to Angoon.  I mostly lived in Angoon.

KAREN: May I ask you when you were born?

JESSIE: August 15, 1939.  

KAREN: When did you graduate from Mt. Edgecumbe?

JESSIE: 1958.

KAREN: And your LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) / PN (Practical Nurse) training, was that for a year?

JESSIE: Yes, I believe it was in 1960… '59 or '60, something like that, I can't remember.

KAREN: What was your maiden name?

JESSIE: Gamble.

KAREN: Jessie Gamble… who were your parents?

JESSIE: John and Nadja Gamble.  

KAREN: Did you have brothers and sisters?

JESSIE: Yes.  I have one brother and six sisters.

KAREN: Where did you fall in the line?

JESSIE: Probably in the middle, just about the middle.