KAREN: Today is March 10th, 2005, and this is Karen Brewster, and here with Stella Krumrey.

STELLA: Krumrey.

KAREN: And we're here in Kodiak, although you are from Old Harbor?

STELLA: Yes.

KAREN: Okay. And this is for the community health aides project. And Stella, thank you for agreeing to participate.

STELLA: Oh, you're welcome.

KAREN: So I'll just start with when you were born and where.

STELLA: I was born in Old Harbor in November of -- November 10th, 1947.

KAREN: Uh-hum.

STELLA: And I -- I grew up in Old Harbor. Actually, I'm sorry, I was born in Old Harbor, I was raised in Kaguyak. It's a village between Old Harbor and Ahkiok. It was wiped away by the tidal wave in -- after the earthquake in 1964.

KAREN: Oh.

STELLA: So then I moved permanently to Old Harbor after that happened.

KAREN: So you were there in '64 with the --

STELLA: In Old Harbor. Actually, you know, we moved back and forth because Old -- Kaguyak didn't have a school for us to go to school.

KAREN: Oh.

STELLA: So my parents moved us every winter after I became of age to go to school.

KAREN: Uh-hum.

STELLA: Probably when I was about eight, though, eight years old.

KAREN: And how many in your family --

STELLA: There's -- there's four of us in the family. It's two girls and two boys.

KAREN: That seems like a small family --

STELLA: Uh-hum.

KAREN: -- for around here.

STELLA: Yeah.

KAREN: So what sort of an educational background do you have?

STELLA: I went to school, grade school, in Old Harbor, and I didn't get -- I took my GED in -- and took a couple of years of community college here during the time -- after I became a health aide --

KAREN: Uh-hum.

STELLA: -- I took one year off and went -- year and a half off. Uh-hum.

KAREN: Okay. And so, now, when did you become a health aide?

STELLA: 1980. March of 1980.

KAREN: And what got you involved in becoming a health aide?

STELLA: I was a community health representative before I became a health -- health aide. That's a CHR.

KAREN: Uh-hum. And could you explain what that is.

STELLA: It's -- basically, I worked with the people that needed help filling out paperwork or -- and I was kind of like a liaison between the court system and, you know, the people that needed to have some sort of a counseling. So...

KAREN: Uh-hum.

STELLA: Yeah. Those kinds of things.