ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW
Anna McNulty Graves
April 10, 1985
by Barbara Higgins Aubrey

Part 2

0:00:22	The first woman to take dictation from the officers.
0:01:02	Worked in the Mail and Record Dept.
0:01:36	Mr. Witham usually took dictation.
0:02:36	Talks about the administrative division of the Mail and Record Dept.
0:03:25	Looks at a letter that she had typed.
0:05:20	Talks about H. R. Kutz.
0:05:49	Talks about the differences between regular army and ordnance officers.
0:07:05	Talks about the hearing in the colonel's office.
0:07:50	Discusses the manners of gentlemen and the lack of manners today.
0:09:15	Was told that the testimony was inappropriate for a young girl like herself to hear so Mr. Witham took the dictation at the hearing.
0:09:55	Talks about the Bldgs. on the Grounds.
0:11:40	Looks at a picture of the Barracks.
0:13:40	Officers stayed at Bldg. 12 when they were newly married, got to be called Honeymoon Cottage.
0:15:52	Recognizes Bob Flynn, Morris Cruze, Reah Shay from a picture taken in the 1920' s.
0:17:42	Talks of her friendship with Reah Shay.
0:19:35	Also remembers a Francis Lanaine.
0:20:08	Recognizes Carrie Miscal.
0:21:09	Had dances at the Armory.
0:22:40	Talks about a Harold Coyle.
0:23:50	Learned dictation at the high school.
0:24:44	She and her sisters started working in Forbes and Wallace.
0:25:23	Sister Mary went to work in the Aetna.
0:27:53	Surprised that Mr. Witham took dictation. Thought it was a girl's job.
0:28:05	Went to Classical High School in the afternoon.
0:29:02	She and her future husband would leave notes in a certain desk for one another.
0:31:10	Was in the first June graduation.
	(It appears that the original tape, and therefore the rest of the interview, was recorded over with an old swing-like tune. The following excerpts from the interview came from the transcript)
	Remembers being finger printed and checked by the FBI.
	Discusses some of the papers she had kept.
	Discusses her fight to keep their insurance.
	Talked abour the I.D. needed to enter the Armory grounds.
	Took a Civil Service exam in 1917 and 1941.
	Describes her insurance policy from the Armory.
	Would take her lunch and picnic on the grounds.
	Capt. Bradshaw, Capt, Munch, Pierce, Hubble and Kutz were officers who she took dictation from.
	Would eat lunch at a place on Walnut St.
	Talked about a man who took pictures of her children,
	Husband worked in Washington for a while during W.W.I.
	Static on the tape, voices unintelligible,
	Met husband at a skating party.
	Many of the officers were commissioned because they worked at Westinghouse.
	Left the Armory the first time to look for shorter hours.
	Static on the tape, voices unintelligible.
	Talked about how her mother would tell her that when she was pregnant she never went to the doctor every month.
	Describes the car that the Doctor drove.
	Her son Clifton Graves worked for a Mr. Stone in manufacturing.
	Talks of how she felt awful when McNamara closed the Armory.

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