Let's see, they had a new cafeteria that opened down at UNC, that's
where I want to work right after high school. I knew I didn't have money
for college and said, well I made it through high school, and back then
they didn't push blacks going to college like they do now, and there
wasn't a lot of opportunity, and grants and scholarships, so if you
finish high school, you doing good. So, Chase cafeterias, that's the
name of it, it's still open for students, down at UNC, so I went there
to work for a while and then after that, oh I know what else, something
else when I was in High School, one of teachers, I forgot what it was
called, I think Business, we could take different classes pertaining to
something that we wanted to do when we got out of high school, like some
took, they went to work at different places, so I chose working at the
hospital as a nursing assistant, and I done some hours there to go along
with my schoolwork, and then when I left there, finished there, went to
Chase, worked there 6 months or more and then I put my application in
there over at , what, Gravley, Gravley Sanatorium, and they hired me
over there as nursing assistant, and that's where I got my start from,
working at UNC. So I worked there when it was Gravley, and then after
that, UNC took over, well Memorial Hospital cause they were two
separate, two separate facilities, but they were both state, run by the
state. So I worked there, enjoyed it, and then I went over to, when UNC
took it over I still worked as nursing assistant and then, as we say, I
got my big break came along.