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• We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.

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  Clever, Eye, Two

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• There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time.

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  Children, Done, Helping

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• Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue.

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  Art, Cousin, School

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• I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.

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  Art, Math, Program

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• I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

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  Book, Furniture, Technique

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• I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So there was a continuum of my interest in the arts and involvement in creating that was strong enough that it later blossomed into much more.

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  Art, Strong, Book

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• Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.

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  Yearbook, Achievement, Succeed

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• I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.

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  Cousin, War, Army

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• In terms of any sacrifices at the time [of World War II], I was somewhat protected living on a small farm where there was food, different perhaps from living in a city environment. I know such things as gas rationing did exist, but it wasn't anything that interfered with my daily activity.

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  War, Sacrifice, Daily Activities

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• At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.

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  Home, Radio, Classic

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• My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.

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  Mother, Uncles, Children

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• At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.

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  Dream, School, Play

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• It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

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  Piano, Priorities, Lessons

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• Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.

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  Cousin, Cities, Buffalo

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• At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.

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  Home, School, Piano

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• I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.

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  Art, Home, Simple

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• In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching.

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  Teaching, School, Thinking

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• He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

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  Mother, Father, Basements

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• There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

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  Thinking, Discipline, Parent

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• The first important [step] one was going to school. There was an advantage as there was a one-room schoolhouse that was within walking distance of my home. I went there being very shy, but I fit in quickly, and I was nurtured by a very dedicated and caring teacher, Magdalen George, who we referred to as Miss George. She was my teacher for a full seven years.

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  Teacher, Distance, School

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• I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

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  Teacher, School, Age

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• One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].

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  Teacher, Art, Illustration

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• Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.

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  War, World, Youth

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• I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

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  Children, Distance, Years

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• At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban area not far from the well-known Attica State Prison. Then I would take the school bus which was a very short distance away, where I was involved with a much larger community.

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  Distance, Moving, School

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