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CAT177A
INTERVIEWEE:BUCK GEORGE
INTERVIEWER:EMMA ECHOLS
DATE:OCTOBER 3,1992
E:This is Emma Echols, from Charlotte, North Carolina, 5150
Sharon Road. I am working on the oral history of the
Catawba Indians, with the University of Florida [through]
Dr. Samuel Proctor. I am visiting in the home of Buck
George. Some years ago I was teaching school at Northside,
and I had quite a number of Indian children in my class.
They could not wait for the bell to ring, so they would go
out on the bleachers, at Northside school, and see Buck
George play football. So here, I am interviewing today,
Buck George. And I am going to let you tell about yourself;
give us your full name, and your address.
B:My real name is Evans M. George, Evans McLure George. My
nickname is "Buck", so everybody goes by Buck, they do not
really know me by my real name.
E:And your address?
B:1119 McDowell Drive, Rock Hill, South Carolina.
E:Where are you working now?
B:I am working at [Hearst Selanies] Corporation, and I have been
there thirty-four years, and in about another month, I am
going to retire, on December the first.
E:I cannot imagine you retiring, you are going to find something
else to do, I know that.
B:Yes, I think that there are plenty of things coming up now,
that I will be able to do.
E:Now let us go back to your early days, when you were a little
boy, where did you go to school, and what do you remember
about the Reservation?
B:Well, I went to school at the Northside school, it was right
near the Industrial Mill Village, and I was raised up on the
Industrial Mill Village, I live at 23 Barrel Street, and I
went to Northside School all the way through elementary
school, and then to Rock Hill High School. And when I
finished Rock Hill High School, I went over to Clempson
University.
E:Who do you remember of your teachers at Northside?
B:[Laughs] Oh, I remember alot of them; Mrs. Saunders, and I
remember you, Miss Echols, and I remember Mr. Reiser, and I
remember Mrs. Wilkinson, and . .
E:And Miss Sue Wayne, did you go to school to her?
B:I do not remember Miss Wayne.
E:You had some others. You remember Mrs. Parker, I suppose?
B:Oh, yes.
E;And Miss Leslie, maybe?
B:Miss Leslie taught me in the seventh grade. I came out of her
class one day, and she was always standing at the top of the
big fire escape at the end of the building, and the children
marched down those fire escapes to go home. So one day I
came out of that room, the first person out of the room, and
I was in a hurry to get home so I could come back to the
playground, and play. When I was the first one out of the
room, instead of walking down the flight of stairs, I
grabbed the bannisters and slid down, all the way down to
the ground, and it was about thirty feet or more down to the
ground, and I took off running, and I was almost to the edge
of the school grounds when I heard all these people
hollering at me, and I looked around to see who they were
hollering at, and it was me, and I looked back up there and
standing at the top of the fire escape was Miss Leslie,
motioning for me to come back. So I came back, and she made
me walk up and down those steps five times, and every step I
would say "haste makes waste". "An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure", so I alwaCAT177A
INTERVIEWEE:BUCK GEORGE
INTERVIEWER:EMMA ECHOLS
DATE:OCTOBER 3,1992
E:This is Emma Echols, from Charlotte, North Carolina, 5150
Sharon Road. I am working on the oral history of the
Catawba Indians, with the University of Florida [through]
Dr. Samuel Proctor. I am visiting in the home of Buck
George. Some years ago I was teaching school at Northside,
and I had quite a number of Indian children in my class.
They could not wait for the bell to ring, so they would go
out on the bleachers, at Northside school, and see Buck
George play football. So here, I am interviewing today,
Buck George. And I am going to let you tell about yourself;
give us your full name, and your address.
B:My real name is Evans M. George, Evans McLure George. My
nickname is "Buck", so everybody goes by Buck, they do not
really know me by my real name.
E:And your address?
B:1119 McDowell Drive, Rock Hill, South Carolina.
E:Where are you working now?
B:I am working at [Hearst Selanies] Corporation, and I have been
there thirty-four years, and in about another month, I am
going to retire, on December the first.
E:I cannot imagine you retiring, you are going to find something
else to do, I know that.
B:Yes, I think that there are plenty of things coming up now,
that I will be able to do.
E:Now let us go back to your early days, when you were a little
boy, where did you go to school, and what do you remember
about the Reservation?
B:Well, I went to school at the Northside school, it was right
near the Industrial Mill Village, and I was raised up on the
Industrial Mill Village, I live at 23 Barrel Street, and I
went to Northside School all the way through elementary
school, and then to Rock Hill High School. And when I
finished Rock Hill High School, I went over to Clempson
University.
E:Who do you remember of your teachers at Northside?
B:[Laughs] Oh, I remember alot of them; Mrs. Saunders, and I
remember you, Miss Echols, and I remember Mr. Reiser, and I
remember Mrs. Wilkinson, and . .
E:And Miss Sue Wayne, did you go to school to her?
B:I do not remember Miss Wayne.
E:You had some others. You remember Mrs. Parker, I suppose?
B:Oh, yes.
E;And Miss Leslie, maybe?
B:Miss Leslie taught me in the seventh grade. I came out of her
class one day, and she was always standing at the top of the
big fire escape at the end of the building, and the children
marched down those fire escapes to go home. So one day I
came out of that room, the first person out of the room, and
I was in a hurry to get home so I could come back to the
playground, and play. When I was the first one out of the
room, instead of walking down the flight of stairs, I
grabbed the bannisters and slid down, all the way down to
the ground, and it was about thirty feet or more down to the
ground, and I took off running, and I was almost to the edge
of the school grounds when I heard all these people
hollering at me, and I looked around to see who they were
hollering at, and it was me, and I looked back up there and
standing at the top of the fire escape was Miss Leslie,
motioning for me to come back. So I came back, and she made
me walk up and down those steps five times, and every step I
would say "haste makes waste". "An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure", so I always remember that. ys
remember that.
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