tournament on July Ist. (In those days) we weren’t old enough to play ball - we were chasing after the foul balls for 5¢!” Responsibility Midge Bergman ”My mother passed away when I was 6 (in 1934), so my two broth— ers and I tried to keep things going in the home. I was 6 and one boy was 8 and the other was 10. And my father was never home because he was working for the City (of Winnipeg). My sister was only 14 months old when my mom died. 80 my brothers and I tried to keep things going and as I said, my father was working very hard. We moved every year or two... you’re changing schools, you see, and that’s very hard on you be- cause we were not only poor, but we were constantly trying to get to know people. That was very difficult.” Herman Larke ”I would harvest at Patterson’s and work until November. In the wintertime, I went to North Dakota and stayed with my cousin there and helped him cut wood, and played hockey with the hockey team. I did that for a couple of winters, and then I started to think, “Well, this is a crazy way; I’m not getting to first base here...” There was one day the Morden Cream Truck (with my friend driving) passed where I was working. I thought, ”There’s got to be something better than this working on the farm.” 80 I went to Morden Creamery to get cream, and said to Mr. Anderson, ”You wouldn’t be looking for a driver, come spring, would you?” He said, ”As a matter of fact, we are!” So I started working for the Morden Creamery. Wages were $12.00 a week. I stayed at home and paid $10.00 a week to my mother. I ’d have $2.00 for myself. Just in order that the family would stay together - so that no one else would have to go. I had to go, but now I could come back, because I ’d got a job. I stayed there until when the war broke out.” Eva Marshall “After I left (a foster home in Somerset, at about age 14), I didn’t know where I was going to go. The Anglican minister and his wife took me in for a year and a half and let me go to school there. In summertime I would go out to a farm near Pilot Mound - the minister’s wife had relatives there. I helped the homemaker - I liked that. Picking berries, I hated! After a year or two, again I didn’t know where I was going to go. The people out at the farm said that I could stay with them but they couldn’t pay me any wages. Ruth Winkler happened to come out to the farm and she said she was looking for somebody to stay with her mother in Morden. So I came to live with them and went to high school. I stayed with her Mom for almost two years.” 18