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TI: I want to ask about your family now. So you and Ethel, did you have any children?

HU: I had David, my son. One and only.

TI: And about when was he born?

HU: In January 1953, I think.

TI: Okay.

HU: And my wife lost the first three within a month or two, and David came just as natural as could be, and that's the only one we have.

TI: And so it sounds like you lived in Minneapolis and then in the San Francisco area. How long did you live in San Francisco?

HU: A little over two years.

TI: And then where did you go?

HU: Then we came here. When I was at Children's Hospital starting my second year, I was six months, then I had a call from the Fairview Hospital downtown here in Minneapolis. "We'd like for you to come. Why don't you come take care of the financial part, and I'll take care of the rest? Right now we're gonna expand on the east side for rehabilitation with a swimming pool, something... on the west side, we're gonna have two floors. One for light case of psychiatric patients, the other floor is for long-term care." He says, "Harry, I want you to come and take care of the financial side. I'll take the rest." That statement, "take the financial side, I'll take the rest," went on for twenty-five years, nothing else.

TI: And which hospital is this?

HU: Fairview Hospital. It was Fairview Hospital system when we added hospital, hospital. I had fun.

TI: Well, it sounds like you had a very distinguished career in the hospital area, that you were really well-respected with your accounting methods.

HU: Yes. And I was a co-founder of Minnesota (Chapter of) Hospital Financial Managers.

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