Densho Digital Archive - Gladys Koshio Konishi Interview (denshovh-kgladys-01-0017)

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RP: You graduated from Fort Lupton High School in 1948?

GK: Yes, I did, uh-huh.

RP: And kind of lead us on the journey from there.

GK: Oh, our journey from there? Okay, well, when I graduated in 1948, I wanted to go to college. And my parents said that I could not do that because my two older brothers had gotten scholarships and they couldn't go to college because they were needed on the farm. So Mother said, "If you ask your oldest brother Floyd, and if he says you can go, well then maybe you can go." So I went up to my brother and I said, "Could I go to college?" and he goes, "Sure, why not?" And I said, "Well, the folks said that I couldn't go unless you gave me permission because you weren't allowed to go 'cause you were needed on the farm." And he says, "Of course you can go." So I went to what is now UNC, it was Colorado College of Education back then, and so I thought, well, since I'm lucky enough to go to college, the least I can do is work for my room and board. So I went to the administration building and found a place where I could work for my room and board, and she gave me five dollars a week. And at that time, tuition was forty-eight dollars a quarter, so I felt like I was doing my share to be able to go to college, and I was very thankful because I was the first one to be able to do that. My brother Tom went, but then he was drafted, so I don't think that they had any qualms about him going, being a boy, but a daughter, that was something new.

RP: You broke some new ground there.

GK: I did, I did. So... but it didn't, I broke the ground, but my two younger sisters went to business school. They just, I guess they were more interested in that way, but I just wanted to go to college.

RP: And you went to college for a short time and then raising a family got...

GK: Yeah, I got married. I went, went two, two years and a quarter of my junior year. So Frank and I were married, and so this is our fifty-seventh year, and we'll be married fifty-eight years in December.