Women in My Family<br > During the nineteen thirties when I was in high school, my<br > mother went back to college. She had an eight o clock class five<br > mornings a week at the Universit), of Washington. So did my<br > brother, Watson. He drove to the university in his old 192"5<br > Model T Ford roadster without a top. Since he had t,ery little<br > money for gas, he.figured out a route by which he could coast<br > almost all the way./i om our house on a steep hill to the Engin.<br > eering College on the lower campus about three miles away.<br > A lot depended on the trqffic lights. My mother rode with hiJ)l,<br > but her classes were in the art department on the upper eampus,<br > so she jumped out of the roadster . hen Watson crossed Univer-<br > sity Avenue and turned down toward Engineering. If the light<br > was green on the avenue, she had to make a quick exit so that<br > she would not break the roadster s nTomentum. Watson never<br > slowed down much for her. None o[ us did - my father, my<br > brother, or me. We expected her to kdep up andshe did. "<br > More and more often we found Mother in the basement<br >sculpting instead of in the kitchen cooking. All q/" us" were<br >changing. Watson was home less. My interests , ere shi~ting<br >from baseball and iee-skating to the school newspaper and<br >yearbook. My father did,tore of the grocery shopping and oJten<br >cooked our dinners. "Your mother," he explained. "is coming<br >into full bloom."<br > Mother s artistic talents I knew had been recognized when<br >she was a young woman. Her teacher encouraged her to go to<br >Berkeley to study at the University of Cal~brnia, a heady<br >profiteer, she said,.[br a country girl from Idaho. To earn the<br >money to go, she taught school /br several years in the little<br >towns of White Bird and Stvkes.<br > The hard work expected o/ her as the oldest girl between two<br >boys on her father s homestead did not enamor her of rural l~[~.<br >When she could be ,spared she worked for ,,ages, cooking and<br >~eashing dis hes at the few scattered ranches in the mountains<br >
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