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Good morning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2.0,8.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Good morning [chuckles].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=8.0,12.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Do you agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the Queens Memory informed consent and copyright permission form that I shared with you over email?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=12.0,25.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes, I do agree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=25.0,27.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Thank you. May I have your full name? Today's date is Tuesday, April 20th, 2021. May I have your full name, please?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=27.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes, my full name is Betty Jane Edna Watts Carrington.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=44.0,54.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And could you spell it, please?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=54.0,56.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. Betty, B E T T Y J A N E E D N A W A T T S C A R R I N G T O N.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=56.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Excellent. Okay. Welcome. This is our Queens Memory Project, our ambassador program, where I - Adrienne Hawthorne, the adult services librarian at the Cambria Heights Community Library in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York - am interviewing five community residents about their life here in Cambria Heights, Queens. Today, my special guest, Ms. Betty Jane Edna Watts Carrington, is a resident here in Cambria. She is eighty five years old and she's going to share with us about her life and about her professions and her community organizations and her life and times. So, thank you so much Dr. Carrington. We're going to go to our first slide. You're going to share with us about where you were born, your parents, your upbringing. Okay. Our first slide:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=80.0,169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: My memory goes back to very far. I remember West Virginia and the house we had was like a one big room as a child. We were in a coal mining town. I was the only child at the time. My parents James and Odessa Watts were both teachers by education, and West Virginia was rather harsh at that time. My father had been a teacher of a one-room school and wanted to move North. And I remember that one day, my mother saw me and my little playmate from next door. And she said, \"say goodbye to Sparky, say goodbye to Sparky.\" I had no knowledge of what that meant. I think I must have been three years old, but I said goodbye. But what I do remember is my father took all of our belongings and put them in his 1936 Plymouth and made a pallet for me. And what I remember is putting me on top of this pallet and I couldn't raise my head because I would always touch the top of the car.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=169.0,266.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: [Chuckles]. Oh my goodness.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=266.0,268.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: We were traveling around the mountains on outside of narrow roads around the mountains in West Virginia. It took us quite a long time to get to Cincinnati, Ohio, where we settled in Lockland, a northern part of Cincinnati. And my father had a job as a principal in a black school in that community of South Woodlawn. South Woodlawn School was an all-black school that served all of those persons migrating, at end of the Depression and the beginning of the Second World War, for jobs in that area. B-29 planes were going to be built in the community where we were, and there was a school that happened to be there and my father was the principal when we first arrived there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=268.0,338.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow. So, what colleges did your parents go to? How did they get their education to become teachers?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=338.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: My mother graduated from Wilberforce.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=348.0,350.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wilberforce. Ok!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=350.0,350.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: She was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. And my father had a history of starting out in the coal mines and he almost was killed in a coal mining accident. And he said to himself, according to what we've been told, he said to himself, \"God does not want you to die in the coal mines.\" And so he finished the eighth grade, which was the highest grade for blacks at that time to be educated. And he hitchhiked to - after having taken conversational courses from a neighboring one-room school teacher, he hitched to Bluefield State College, and the president found him there and asked, what was he doing there? Because he was squatting with friends he had made. And he said he wanted to go to school and the president gave him an examination, which he passed, and he was able to matriculate in the college and work there. And, so, from Bluefield State College, that was his basic education. But many years later, he was able to get his Master's at the University of Cincinnati.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=350.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That's beautiful. Wow. So that treacherous drive around the mountain must've been something. You remember the details of that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=450.0,461.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Well, I can tell you, there were no facilities for us. There was no place to stop to eat and there were no bathrooms. It was really very [hard] - I remember that because we also went back on subsequent visits and that's situation hadn't changed. When I was 12 years old, it still hadn't changed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=461.0,488.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow. And that was during the time when the interstates hadn't been fully developed yet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=488.0,495.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: At all, not at all. And I had an aunt who still lived in one of the coal mining houses. She did not get indoor plumbing until 1972.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=495.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow, amazing. So this beautiful little picture here on the left of you, on your little horsey, you were three years old there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=510.0,521.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I looked, to me, more like two and a half to three. Yes. And look at my little white shoes all scruffed up because there was coal dust everywhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=521.0,537.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Very nice. And this picture on the right is of your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=537.0,543.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. This is of my parents. My mother taught first grade in a parochial school in Lincoln Heights, Ohio for 20 years. And my father started out as I said, principal in South Woodlawn, but it was all black school. He then, with the help of a distant aunt, was able to be employed in the Cincinnati public school system, which was much more organized and part of a very good system. He stayed with the Cincinnati public schools and retired as a principal from Schiele Middle School and really accomplished all that he wanted to. And he was very advanced in that he invested. He had investments and he worked very hard. In the summers, he would also paint houses and do handyman work when they were not in the school. And he and a friend - they were very ambitious and we had a very comfortable life, and what happened - [and that's what happened.]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=543.0,634.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: My father, his goal was he wanted us to be able to go to any college that we wanted to go to, not to be hampered by lack of money. And so, this is how I was able to go to the University of Michigan, not from help from my high school - which I enjoyed. I enjoyed my high school, but at that time, we were not counseled or helped with college applications. That's 1954. My father made out applications, not only for me, but all my peers and all of us began to integrate universities, my playmates, my growing-up friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=634.0,684.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: So, he made sure all of your playmates, all of your schoolmates that were interested in going to college, he made sure their college applications were done properly and helped with sending them off?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=684.0,698.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. He had taught himself to type and he was a notary public, even back then. He wrote letters for people in the community who - we still had neighbors who could not read and write and he did a lot of--a lot to help people in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=698.0,718.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow. That's pretty awesome. He was an information conduit, made sure everybody had the information they need and he was there to authorize their letters. And your mom? Tell us about your mom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=718.0,739.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Mother was at home with us until I was about 12 - I was the oldest of three children, but when I was in junior high, that's when she became a first grade teacher at St. Simon's Episcopal Church school. And she taught first grade for many years, 20 years. And I used to always marvel because before she died, there would be adults who would come. 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Is there anything else you'd like to share about your parents while we're on this page? We do have another page of your parents, in their retirement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=786.0,828.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. This was really - this picture was taken in 1981 and we gave them a party. And the other person, you'll see her here, is my mother's first cousin in the picture there. But my parents traveled a lot in the United States pulling an Airstream trailer and they joined a trailer group and they really had a rich life [after retirement]. They didn't go out of the country except for Montreal, Canada, but they traveled all over the United States.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=828.0,878.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That is so fabulous. We're going to talk more about that in a little while. Okay. Next - Before we get to that, any episodes in your childhood, K-12, that is really impressive that you'd love to share.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=878.0,902.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I like to say that was the happiest childhood ever. We had good friends. And even today, I have a dear friend, Dr. Robbie Johnson, and we met each other when we were five and six and we are still friends and it's just a special, special friendship. But when we were children, we could run and play and we had freedom. We played baseball. We really just enjoyed being in the outside. We had more freedom than children have today. Yes, we could eat our breakfast and then we would go out. We were playing and everything. You know, we would decide what we would do during the day. In the summers, we would say, \"Oh, today we'll read comic books.\" And we'd just sat and we all shared comic books. And other times, we had so much excitement just thinking of things to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=902.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: We wanted to be the circus. We tried to do that in our friend's basement [laughs]. It was a lot of fun, but we had to become very serious in middle school. And that's what happens. My parents wanted a better education for my sister and me. And so, this remembrancer is my senior yearbook from Walnut Hills High School. Walnut Hills was an elite school. We had to take an exam to get into it. It was predominantly white. And the issue was whether we should attend in the seventh grade or wait until the ninth grade. I started in the seventh grade. And it was a cultural adjustment of major times because we had very little exposure to the outside world. And here we were with rich students, who even had a student parking lot, who traveled to Havana, who traveled to New York City for a weekend and at Broadway.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=975.0,1053.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I didn't even know where Broadway was, had no idea where Havana was. So, we had a major learning curve. I had never been to a cafeteria and then, in seventh grade, I had to really learn how to do the cafeteria. And it was just amazing, the cultural change that we had to overcome. And I can remember a music teacher in my seventh or eighth grade, and we were in a large room with many students, and there were instruments all around the room on posters and the music teacher said \"I'm going to play this record and I want you to identify all the instruments that you hear.\" Well, the only instruments I knew were the piano and the organ because that was at church. I'd never heard violin, never heard the bassoon, [french horn] trombone, or any of those other instruments. So it just showed that we were very [culturally unexposed].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1053.0,1129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: It was very stressful for us, as young African Americans, trying to integrate these schools in Cincinnati because Lincoln Heights or some area of Lockland. And the Northern part of that area had no high school. So we only had education to the eight grade. And that's how I went to Walnut Hills, but I enjoyed Walnut Hills tremendously. And I participated - each year, I grew and learned more and more skills. We had Latin, we had very competitive class work. I belonged to the acapella choir. I did athletics there. I enjoyed it tremendously.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1129.0,1190.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: What sports did you play?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1190.0,1192.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Basketball, soccer, field hockey. We were very active. And then on our own, in my own neighborhood, our church had a tennis courts. So we played tennis, we played baseball. So, we were very active. And I think that has really contributed to my health, an 85 year old [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1192.0,1224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes, [laughs]. I always say, you know, having all that athletic program early in life keeps your reflexes, those muscle memories, they stay with you and you'll have good reflexes well into seniorhood just by doing all the different sports growing up. Yeah. That's awesome. So, this is the remembrance of the 1954 yearbook?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1224.0,1257.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: That's the Walnut Hills High School yearbook. And yet, we were on our own to apply to colleges. So, this is 1954. It didn't make an impact on me at that time. And as an adult, I look back and I say, 1954 was Brown vs. The Board of education. It was a time when Arkansas closed its public schools for two years to avoid integration. It was a time when Prince George County also was having trouble with integration. And here I was going to the University of Michigan, only person of color in the nursing class that graduated of - really, we started with over 200 in the class, but about 123 graduated in 1958.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1257.0,1330.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow, 1958. Oh, wait a minute. 1958. You graduated from -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1330.0,1336.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Right, from the University of Michigan School of Nursing. It was an excellent school of nursing, at that point. I learned so much. I really - I ended up with the highest average. I graduated with the highest distinction.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1336.0,1355.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: You graduated from college with the highest average?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1355.0,1358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I did. I was the first person. I was the first person in line to walk in with the flag into the stadium for honor roll. It was about because I had just completed three months of public health nursing in western Detroit. And so, I had been off campus for those three months and I enjoyed that. That was an excellent experience. I have here, the mug given to me from my Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter. I do want to say a word about my sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha because the University of Michigan had about -- we were out of 17,000 students, I believe, on campus. We knew each other. There must've been about 300 people of color and all African Americans, but in graduate school and in the undergraduate school. And so, it was rough. It was not socially very supportive, except for our sorority and fraternity. And I credit Alpha Kappa Alpha for my social support and social confidence, I guess, you'd say while I was there. And so I became a member in 1955, but they were honoring at my graduation in 1958. So, I really thank the sorority very much for that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1358.0,1473.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That's awesome. So what black fraternities and sororities were on campus while you were there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1473.0,1483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta, and for the men it was Kappa Alpha Psi. And that's the really was the only one I remember for the men. Both had a house, so most of our activities were there, social activities. And we were all students of color, no matter what school you were part of. We would all find each other. On the weekends, we would go to basketball games together, we would go to the Michigan league and you could socialize. So, it was such a comfort. I would say there were about 300 of us, out of the whole campus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1483.0,1534.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow. So you joined the sorority in 1955, you say 1955?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1534.0,1544.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. November, November (15) 1955.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1544.0,1552.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. Wow. That's positions you in the sorority for 65 years. That's awesome. That is such a - Oh, here we go. We're recording. Okay. So, you were sharing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1552.0,1581.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: So I met my husband at Michigan. He had come out of the service. He had completed three years in the service [during the Korean War Era and became a student in engineering] at Michigan, which was a dream of his, but it didn't work out quite as he expected, but we met there and he then came to New York City and we continued about our relationship by letter and telephone. And we married August 17th, 1958. And I had already graduated and had worked for the summer and we managed to do that. So I think the next slide -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1581.0,1644.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay, I'm going to go to the next slide.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1644.0,1649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: So my husband and I are -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1649.0,1657.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: This is a picture of you and your husband, right? Nice. Tell me his name again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1657.0,1666.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: His name's Homer Smythe Isaiah Carrington.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1666.0,1672.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1672.0,1676.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: And, we started our life together and we were married for 34 and a half years before he passed away. I must mention that the picture on the left here is a picture of my brother. He died at 14 because he had a malignant brain tumor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1676.0,1708.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Oh, I'm so sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1708.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: He was diagnosed in August of 1954, and died January 1956. After I became a midwife, I understood what happened. While I was born at home, my brother and sister were born in the hospital and there were certain practices that took place that had not been studied. When my mother was pregnant with my brother, in labor with him, they determined that the child was not presenting head first, but was presenting bottom first. But what they did, they x-rayed her abdomen. Years later, mother told me this. And so now, we know that you never x-ray a pregnant woman's abdomen without a lead shield. So that's what happened with him and he was so personable and everyone loved him so much. So, it was really sad turning point in our lifetime. My mother never really recovered from thinking that she should have done this and she should have done that, all kinds of thoughts that mothers have. Everything was done and his care was at the Cincinnati Children's Hospitals, still one of the outstanding children's hospital in the country. And he was treated with radiation. That's what they had in those days. I had just finished my freshman year at Michigan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1710.0,1834.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow, so sorry. That is so sad. Okay, we're going to go to the next slide.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1834.0,1846.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Now, after I married, there were times I needed to be able to do something and at Walnut Hills, I had enjoyed my art classes. And so, here, we live very close to Andrew Jackson High School, and it was very, very just beginning to integrate. And in the evening, they had classes for adults in the community and I took this art class and this was the olive oil lime strawberry picture I painted while I was pregnant with my son. The picture on the left, I painted while I was pregnant with my daughter. I had an interest in different things and these are two examples.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1846.0,1915.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Nice. So is this a acrylic on canvas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1915.0,1921.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: In those days, I think it was oil. This picture on the right is 61 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1921.0,1930.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow, 61 years. This picture on the right. It still looks fabulous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1930.0,1937.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: The one on the left is about 58 years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1937.0,1942.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Nice. Wow. So art, music, piano, didn't you say you played piano?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1942.0,1955.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I was learning, but I never achieved the proficiency that I would love to have had. Even now, I like to just hear the keys and the sounds. And learning the piano really taught me how to read music for singing. My musical is limited to church choir [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1955.0,1985.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Mine too [laughs]. Thank God for the church choir. Great place for us musicians. After high school, we can just praise the Lord together. That's right. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=1985.0,2007.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: We lived several places. We started out in St. Albans on 204th Street and from there, I tell you, the rent was $100 a month but that was a lot of money in those days because you earned less than $2000 a year. So, we were on 204th Street for almost two years and then we took advantage of the GI Bill and lived over in Jamaica, in the Baisley Park area. We lived there for six years. Then, we moved to Merrick Park, which was a co-op in the Jamaica community. And then in 1974, we were able - once I got my Masters Degree, my salary doubled so we had some money to buy this house on the left, and we moved in 1974 and this is the same house today. We enjoyed it, my children both grew up here - finished growing up here. And after I became a widow, I also had just continued to stay right here. I like Cambria Heights. It's been a wonderful community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2007.0,2120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes, it's beautiful. It reminds me of my neighborhood. Nice brick houses. Tree-lined streets. It's beautiful. It really is. So, this has been your home for how many years now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2120.0,2138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Since 1974, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2138.0,2141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: '74. Okay. Alright. Let's see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2141.0,2148.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Before my husband passed, before he became very ill, I credit him as being my supporter at Teacher's College. I was at a point where I was teaching nurse-midwifery at SUNY Downstate. I really wanted to learn how to teach and to have more affiliation with education. So, I applied to Teacher's College after I earned 15 credits at Hunter college, working and going to Hunter College for 15 credits. And then I applied to Teacher's College, and I was able to be successful, and that too, I credit my husband with his support and his assistance. [During that period, I had two fellowships. In 1981 was in Cincinnati, Ohio and in 1983, Tanzania East Africa for the WHO - World Health Organization]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2148.0,2217.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: So, that meant a lot for us. And I just felt that having that extra knowledge would help me even in other ways. And I have used the knowledge I gained at Teacher's College to do community work. I, for instance, I became a volunteer with Queens Sickle Cell Advocacy Network for 12 years, and I've been a volunteer in Long Island Jewish [Hospital] and have always been a steadfast volunteer in my church. So, Teacher's College was quite a hurdle [laughs]. I was in a class with principals and deans and people of that sort. I was the only health person, the only nurse and I think people thought that we did not have the same ability to complete the work, but yes, we had the same ability.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2217.0,2291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. So, in 58 you graduated with your Bachelor's and entered into the nursing profession?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2291.0,2299.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: My Bachelor's was in nursing and in 70-71, I applied to Columbia School of Nursing and I achieved the MS in nursing at Columbia. 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Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2434.0,2441.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: For a short period, which was rare because at that time, the racial makeup was about 96 - 97% Caucasian. And so, it was really a different experience, but a same experience since I had been in Walnut Hills High School, I had been at Michigan. So it was a continuation of that kind of social demand for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2441.0,2481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Did you have to advocate for a position or really, was your sense of competence that was obvious and your confidence to lead that was seen by the group and they pulled you into administration?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2481.0,2506.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: It was the latter because there were so few of us of color that it really was the body. I don't know how it happened, but I was supported at that point to do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2506.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay. That's beautiful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2520.0,2523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: [Unclear] this shows some of the plaques that I have achieved over the years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2523.0,2532.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Now. What is the bowl?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2532.0,2534.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: The bowl was the Hattie Hampshire award, the biggest award at the time of nurse midwifery. There are only two blacks in the history of the organization since 1955 who got that award. It is now being retired and there will be a more current name. They've made a decision not to use names on the future awards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2534.0,2567.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: I see there's a triangle down here in the middle shelf -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2567.0,2571.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Right. Well, from the community as well, I've gotten from [recognition] from Sickle Cell, I've gotten from - I would have to go and bring them up, but I have several awards and I was awarded [unclear]. On the shelf there, is Columbia School of Nursing, after I got my doctorate, I was director of the nurse midwifery program at Columbia School of Nursing, and that really was almost unheard of because as you know, I just mentioned that the racial makeup of the organization was such, and I guess I had some nerve [laughs]. [Unclear] be the director at Columbia because Columbia Master's program was the oldest program in the country, so I took that one over and I was there for five years and left it, fully accredited and fully funded.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2571.0,2664.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Okay, just give me one second. Okay. So, share with me one of the blessed memories from midwifery and being in the birthing suites and just, that whole world is such a precious time in a woman's life. 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And, the way we work is that we provided prenatal care and family planning here in the local health department building, which was in East New York, Blake and Dumont Streets. And then we provided labor and delivery management in the hospital, so we did that at Brookdale. I was placed at Brookdale. Other nurse midwives were all over in Cumberland and Harlem, in many of the HHC hospitals.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2697.0,2805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: What we did, we, we did a lot of education as well as actual health care and health management. So we were able to teach women about their bodies, teach women about the process of pregnancy, what was happening, why things were happening. We also detected any abnormalities, any complications as they started to appear, and we would consult with our physician supervisor. And so, if a woman was healthy, we could continue to care for her and even managed her labor and deliver the baby. We were able to control bleeding. So, it was just very exciting and wonderful set of knowledge and skills to have. And, many nurse midwives that working now and nurse midwives are working with midwives who are self-trained or apprentice, but the nurse midwives did a tremendous job at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2805.0,2907.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: This was in the seventies and eighties, and we continued to be in the hospital and also in birthing centers and doing home birth. What we wanted to do was to improve the knowledge that women have for themselves and for their babies. And it was so gratifying to know that we were making a difference. So, I started at Brookdale University Hospital. I then went to SUNY Downstate to teach there. I was there for seven years teaching and supervising students as they develop their skills. And then, from there I applied to the Columbia School of Nursing to be the director of their program. At that time, I was there for five years. So, what's so interesting though, with midwifery, we, we really identify with midwives throughout the world. So we had international meetings, international Confederation of Midwives. So, we were able to travel all over. I've been to parts of the world - I've been to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria. In addition to parts of the United States, we've had several Confederation of Midwife meetings in the United States. The pandemic, of course, has changed many, many things, but we traveled annually for our nurse midwife meetings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=2907.0,3029.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: And I just recall it as being a wonderful, wonderful life experience of. So, midwifery was what I was meant to do, but also use those same skills in the community to help young people get scholarships and what not. And so, one of the things that I was able to do was to help start the National Association of University Women, Long Island branch.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3029.0,3072.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Oh, they used to meet here at Cambria [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3072.0,3078.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. Yes, I think that's another part of the organization.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3078.0,3089.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes, the Queens [Branch: point of clarification: The Queens Branch is the oldest, started in the 1950's The long Island Branch was established in 1981. 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I was delivered by a granny midwife in Alabama back in '69, Ms. Oney Lee Logan, was my midwife that delivered me at home [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3128.0,3151.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: That's a famous name, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3151.0,3152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Mhm, she was recognized by the president, Ronald Reagan, brought her to the White House and she has her own Wikipedia page [laughs]. 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Now we have some beautiful children here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3183.0,3197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. I'm very fortunate to have my children. My son as a young five, six year old, Michael is on the left and my daughter, Lynn came - I didn't go to the March on Washington and right after that, I was so happy cause I conceived her. And she was born in 1964. Michael was born in 1960 and they are both college graduates. My daughter has two Masters. My son graduated from Syracuse University and he is a writer in Hollywood. And, he's written for the Martin show and Jamie Fox, That's So Raven, so that's what he's done. 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My daughter is an AKA - Alpha Kappa Alpha member and a member of the National Association of University Women, Long Island branch as well. Well, I'm done [laughs], I'm blessed with my children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3269.0,3292.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes. So, your daughter and your mom are members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Right? That's phenomenal. Three generations. That's awesome. 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I really enjoy Manhattan with Broadway and after I retired, I even wanted to learn something of opera. So I took season passes with the City Opera, just to have some exposure to know what that was all about. So, I enjoy New York. I like New York [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3322.0,3370.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes. New York city, no place like it [laughs]. Okay. Let's see. And we have these two items.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3370.0,3384.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Right, so after my husband passed, I really also wanted to do hand work and besides some knitting, I was able to produce this petty point, because I felt like I identified with the young woman in the picture. When you're alone, it's a whole picture [laughs]. It's a solo picture. But at the same time, my love is of midwifery and this is a copy of the most recent textbook of nurse-midwifery. And so, I worked closely with Helen Varney. She preceeded me as director of Accreditation. And so, I knew her and it's just been great. The other thing that happened is that the first chapter of this sixth edition includes information on the history of midwifery and it credits the granny midwives and the indigenous midwives who really were the medical people for most of us, in our older generation families. And so, that was a big accomplishment to give credit to the granny midwives and give credit to those who worked and cared for women for generations. And that was quite a beginning for a small group, the Midwives of Color Committee in the organization to get that chapter and this textbook","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3384.0,3532.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That's so important. And you had shared with me that I was able to help you gather resources back in the past. Look at that that's another connection [laugghs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3532.0,3548.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: We didn't even know each other, but we were asking for help in the library to get information on the granny midwives, because we wanted to have something that we would write to put into this textbook. So, Ms. Hawthorne definitely assisted us and we just walked in without an appointment [laughs] and just asked for information.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3548.0,3576.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: As long as we're open, reference desk is always available [laughs]. It's just one of my little passions was midwifery because like I was sharing with you before, when I was pregnant, I had to make up my own little plan and chart to take with me and, and come to find out all of my drive for that, it's in my DNA. One of my great, great grandmothers around the Civil War was also a midwife. So, when I found that out, that was amazing. And then I was delivered by Ms. Oney Lee Logan of Alabama. And she passed away the same year my first born was born, 1995.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3576.0,3638.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Is that right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3638.0,3640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah. So Varney's Midwifery sixth edition and there, we have a credit for the granny midwives of America, thanks to you and your Committee of -","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3640.0,3655.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. The Midwives of Color.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3655.0,3657.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Midwives of Color. And you said, there's a national drive now for women to get back into midwifery?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3657.0,3667.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: They are getting into it with - I don't know if it was the need or the desire or our justice or divine plan, but midwives are really surging. They're increasing to the point that a new organization and new organizations are forming. The one that I've become aware of recently is BlackMamasAlliance.org because of the poor outcomes for women of color in birth. It's still an issue. It's still a problem that the maternal death rate for women of color is three to four times that of white mothers. So there's a lot that needs to be done to improve the quality of obstetrical care for women of color.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3667.0,3743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That's amazing. I'm so glad that women are returning because this is our natural position in life, is to help each other through this birthing process. And the postpartum is just as important. That postpartum depression, the nutritional, making sure you're getting all that lactation training. Oh, it's a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3743.0,3773.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: It's a lot. I agree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3773.0,3777.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: It's a lot. Making sure you're eating right, eating balanced, cause you're eating for two, especially when you're nursing. I nursed both my sons, one a little longer than I should have [laughs]. I was determined to give him the best, you know. Unfortunately my other son became ill, so he nursed for about a year. My older son nursed for two years and four months [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3777.0,3806.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: That's incredulous. That's marvelous. Actually I breastfed too, but really only about four months for both children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3806.0,3816.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah. My sister said, \"I'm not taking him with me unless he's weaned.\" She wanted to take him with her to Arizona, so we weaned him with chocolate milk [laughs]. I mean, but he was big, you know, it was just habit at that point [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3816.0,3837.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. But you can, you know, children have been nursed on to the second year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3837.0,3847.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yeah. Yeah. We did. Okay. And now for our next slide.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3847.0,3854.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I referred earlier about my parents and their traveling, and so I really give credit to them for how we were raised for the integrity and just be held to our own code of ethics, I guess you would say, because we were taught to be respectful, to be sensitive to others and you could still be happy. You could still have a good life. And they certainly did great, they certainly did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3854.0,3896.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And you said they traveled around the country towing, a camper van camper?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3896.0,3904.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. Airstream camper. And they belonged to a camping association. That's what these little [patches] tell us. They had friends that were - they had quite a group of integration. They had achieved quite a bit of integration with this particular group of people. They belonged to a large white traveling group. So we had cousins who also traveled with my parents in their own trailers. So, they were really - they had a very good life at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3904.0,3952.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: And they were trailblazers. They were trailblazers all their lives. Wow. That is so amazing. So, they would gone to the national parks?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3952.0,3965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: They've been as far North as the Dakotas, as far South as Texas, as far West as California and Oregon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3965.0,3980.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Wow. Van life is taking off again. People are choosing to downsize and live on the road in camper vans. It's a big movement going on right now. I mean, cause housing is so expensive. People are just diminishing down and getting on the road and with everyone being able to connect via satellite to the internet and they work on the road and they get out and travel. Van life [laughs]. There are YouTube channels, hundreds of YouTube channels where people show you how they turn a small mobile bus, the small school bus into a home that's on wheels. It's really amazing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=3980.0,4039.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: It is. They were ahead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4039.0,4041.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: They were ahead of their time. They hit the road. That is awesome. So, you are what we call a Pearl Soror in Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. I just want to say it is a distinct honor and privilege to share this time with you. So, would you like to share with us about some of your experiences with Alpha Kappa Alpha, 65 years of service to all mankind?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4041.0,4079.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Yes. We have church service, community service.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4079.0,4087.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: So, did you hold any officer positions in the organization throughout your career?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4087.0,4098.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I was the President of the college chapter briefly because nursing was so demanding to find the time. But I did hold up that for a while and [it was already] a chapter. [As a member of the graduate chapter,] I participated on committees and I just recently chaired a committee.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4098.0,4118.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: In your current chapter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4118.0,4124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: That's my current chapter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4124.0,4126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: What was the name again?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4126.0,4129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Epsilon Pi Omega.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4129.0,4130.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Epsilon Pi Omega, here in Queens. Excellent. Excellent. So do you have any other little pearls of wisdom you'd like to share with us [laughs] about the life and times of Dr. Betty Carrington?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4130.0,4153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: I've just been very blessed, very blessed. And I just treasure my growing up and all the challenges and I will say, God has brought me through. It's been spiritual. I've been a member of - when I came to New York - well, let me start with Cincinnati, I was raised in St. Simon's Church in Lincoln Heights. And, when I went to University of Michigan, I went to St. Andrew's Church and it was there that I did get to see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1958, he was invited to the cathedral there. So I was able to see him there. And in New York because once we married, we were here in New York. I was in St. James The Less Episcopal Church for 20 years, and I've been in St. David's Episcopal Church in Cambria Heights for 42 years now. And I just love really the church [laughs]. I have to say. I love the Episcopal rituals and service. Liturgy, the liturgy of the church.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4153.0,4256.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Yes. Church. There's so much comfort in the routineness of liturgy. I have become member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd out and Roosevelt. And that was one of the, you know, we're now in COVID, and so our churches aren't meeting the way they used to, but that's one of the, I don't know, it's something special about the routineness of it, I guess [laughs]. And by all means we love our father and brother Jesus Christ. So we have that in common ,as well. So Dr. Carrington, it has been such a pleasure. I would love to go on and on and on cause 85 years around this globe, around the sun, I know we just brushed the surface.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4256.0,4332.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: It's been my pleasure as well. And, you know, I just want to encourage young people not to give up, cause everyone has something to offer and you're here for purpose.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4332.0,4347.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: That's right. It's excellent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4347.0,4351.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Thank you so very much for this [unclear] experience and just working together, it's been very good. It's been very good Ms. Hawthorne.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4351.0,4368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Adrienne Hawthorne: Thank you so much. And we will resume again in the future. Okay. Thank you so much, Dr. Betty Carrington, midwife, fellow soror. Okay. Take care. I'm going to stop the video now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4368.0,4394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333/transcript/34710/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Betty Carrington: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/46938/file/120333#t=4394.0,4396.949"}]}]}]}