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Baum* And the rest was night school? 



Millers Ho. From the Italian people there I learned my 

 Italian, from my mother and father I learned my 

 German — I still speak it very fluently, I read it 

 and write it. The teaching I had in Oakland Tech- 

 nical High was spasmodic, three nights a week, and 

 I learned there some bookkeeping and some typing 

 and Spanish, and of course while here I picked up 

 Portuguese. I speak some Portuguese too, 



Baum: You picked that up just from the men you worked with? 



Millers That's right. Of course every day of my life is an 

 important one. I strive to learn something from 

 everybody and I'm learning every day of my life. I 

 have a different psychology of education than anyone 

 else. I say school only provides a foundation, and 

 upon that foundation if you will strive to learn 

 from everybody you can build a beautiful temple on 

 top of it, and you'll come out all right. 



A few years after I came to Richmond I was still 

 sending my money home for the support of the family 

 when Dad passed away in October about 1915. I'm 

 the oldest of a family of nine children. Then I 

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