KAREN: My one last question is what do you think the type of person -- if someone wants to be a health aide, what kind of person do they have to be that's going to make them a good health aide?

TRUDY: They have to be a non-drinker, somebody that's willing to do whatever is told to them to do, do it when they can, when they have time, not only when they have time but if there is a request for them to do something, do it.

I think the biggest problem that we ever had with different people was the fact that they were drinking and they didn't do the job that was requested of them 'til later times. So I don't know, I haven't been at home for a long time.

KAREN: Well, I was also thinking the personality. What kind of qualities of the person or personality that makes him --

TRUDY: -- well you know, yourself that anybody that's drinking wouldn't have a good personality. They may make you think they do, but they don't. Their lifestyle is altogether different from a regular person.

KAREN: Right. If some young person wanted to be a health aide and they came to you for advice what would you say to them?

TRUDY: They would have to contact Mt. Edgecumbe. Call your --

KAREN: Would you encourage them to be a health aide?

TRUDY: I would if I thought they were the right type of person, not a person that drank a lot. Because that's very -- thing depends on your life.

'Cause I did. I did drinking. I didn't want them to put me in as a health aide because I said: “My lifestyle is going to be spoiled because I have to go to be a health aide and you can't drink there. And I like to drink.”

And I was telling that to Caroline Peterson, the president: “Oh, don't think about that, just forget it. But I want you to be the health aide. We just cannot think of anybody else.”

I said: “There's a lot of people here. You have to stop and think about how many other people there are. You don't have to just pick on me for everything.”

And then: “No, I'm just picking on you because I know you'll make a good health aide.” I said: “No, I don't think so.”

KAREN: But then were you able to not drink and be a health aide?

TRUDY: Oh, you had to quit. My husband and I both quit. I quit one day, that very same night he quit, he said: “I'm not going to do it anymore.”

Next day his friend came to him and said: “Let's have a party.” And my husband said: “I quit drinking.” “You did?” And he came to me and he said: “Did he really quit?” I said: “Yeah, he quit last night, really. And he's really sticking to it.”

My husband liked to drink and he liked to have fun.