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Trudy Wolfe,
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KAREN: So, today is May 30th, 2006 and this is Karen Brewster and I'm here in Juneau visiting with Trudy Wolfe for the Community Health Aide Project Jukebox. Trudy thank you very much for agreeing to visit with me today and I'm sorry - a little confusion of when I'd get here.

TRUDY: Thank you for coming. 
           
KAREN: So, yeah what I normally do to start out, so people know a little bit about who this person is who's talking on the recording, is, you know, when and where you were born and --

TRUDY: I was born in Sitka. 1933. August 7th.

KAREN: Oh, my birthday is August 5th.

TRUDY: August what?

KAREN: Five.

TRUDY: Oh--

KAREN: My grandmother's was August 7th. And did you then grow up in Sitka?

TRUDY: Yes, I grew up and came to Juneau and married my husband and we moved to Hoonah because he found a job. There was no jobs anywhere to be found and he found one, in Hoonah.

KAREN: And what was your husband's name?

TRUDY: Bill Wolfe.

KAREN: What about your family? What were your parents' names?

TRUDY: My mother was Mary Paul, my dad's Frank Paul.

KAREN: And did you have brothers and sisters?

TRUDY: I had four brothers and four sisters.

KAREN: Okay. And when growing up in Sitka did you go to school?

TRUDY: Oh yeah. I went to school and in my high school, my eighth grade year, I transferred to Sheldon Jackson and I stayed there 'til I graduated in '52.

KAREN: And that's when you went to Juneau?

TRUDY: No.

KAREN: Oh.

TRUDY: I just lived, went on living in Sitka because that was my home. Oh (exclamation of pain).

KAREN: Oh, your ribs.