Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield
Q: Because of your standing in high school. A: Yes. Q: Had you worked toward this, knowing it as a goal? A: Not as a goal, no. I just had always been impelled to do as well as I could and that's why I did it. Scholarships weren't that wide-open like they are now. There were a lot fewer scholarships in those days than there are now. But I always figured wherever I went to school I was going to have to work anyhow, so the scholarship wasn't the main incentive. Just doing well was the incentive. Q: Who sponsored that scholarship? A: Well, Morehouse at that time had very close affiliations with the Baptist church and we were Baptists and I suppose I got a recommendation from my minister and then they looked at your record against the records of others who sought to come there .and then decided from among them who should get the few scholarships they had. Q: What year was this when you entered Tennessee State? A: 1938. Q: What type of job did you find there? A: I didn't find any, they gave me one. You know, you just came in and you said you wanted to go to school and you wanted to work part of it and--they gave me a job. They gave me a job in the laundry. I worked in the laundry about two or three months when the head of the business department told the president that I was too smart to work in the laundry and they wanted to change my job and they brought me up to the comptroller's office. So I worked in the business office from that point forward. Q: How soon was this after you had started working there? A: About three months. That sounds braggadocio but I'm just telling you what the lady said. (chuckles) Not bragging, telling you what the lady said. Q: What did you do in the comptroller's office? A: Oh, worked business machines, regular office work, filing, just regular office work, clerical work. Q: You started school then, I guess, in September of 1938? A: Of 1938, that's correct. Q: What were the living conditions like there?
CHARLES CECIL AND BESSIE DUPREE PARTEE, 1918. "I had two parents who were very educated in tk context of how to get along in the w odd. " PHPTOCRAPHS. EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE CREDITED. COURTESY OF CECIL A. PARTEE.
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- Page 35 and 36: A: Mixed crews, yes. Q: Do you reme
- Page 37 and 38: to her for fear she wouldn't pay me
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- Page 49 and 50: A: Beautiful. I stayed in the dormi
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- Page 65 and 66: A: But they said, "You can go somew
- Page 67 and 68: Q: How did you get back and forth?
- Page 69 and 70: just on the weekend which was a lot
- Page 71 and 72: A: Well, I was there for about a ye
- Page 73 and 74: old fellow told me that he's from t
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- Page 77 and 78: 63 Abraham Lincoln Hotel and we wer
- Page 79 and 80: Q: That had already finished? A: No
- Page 81 and 82: legislation, I think one day what I
- Page 83 and 84: A: No, that was about two years bef
- Page 85 and 86: A: Yes. q: Did she continue active
- Page 87 and 88: Q: Was this in replacement of Mr. C
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CHARLES CECIL AND BESSIE DUPREE PARTEE, 1918.<br />
"I had two parents who were very<br />
educated in tk context <strong>of</strong> how to<br />
get along in the w odd. "<br />
PHPTOCRAPHS. EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE<br />
CREDITED. COURTESY OF CECIL A. PARTEE.
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