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Transcription: [00:30:20]
{SPEAKER name="Lilly Burke/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
Talking about vocational training, the boys printing. The girls were not allowed and I was always so curious about printing, I wanted to get into printing.

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Sometimes the teacher would give me the notes and I was supposed to give it to the printing teacher and I'd be so thrilled. I remember the printing teacher would say 'what's that, what's that, what's that', I was so curious.

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Same with thing with the carpentry I was so fascinated with the equipment but it wasn't allowed for girls to, we had to stay at home making sewing and how to cook and you know what we used to cook?

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Fudge, I always wanted to cook fudge. The teacher says okay just one time this week, no more okay.

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Oh it was so delicious and the boys would always line up girlfriends, you know. Give us, okay, okay, okay. We'll give you the fudge later, later give it to them.

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Lets see, dry pressing was another thing, laundry that the girls had. Darning, oh darning, socks.

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The knobs, we had the door knobs, put them in then and how to trim them. The darn back and forth and how to get it back into the weave.

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I hated that job. Ironing shirts, we leaned how to iron shirts.

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We would see what the name of the boy was, we thought, girlfriend you wanna iron it. 'Hey I got your boyfriend, you wanna iron it'. 'Yes, yes, yes. I'll take that one', and they iron their, iron their boyfriend's shirt.

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{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
Oh that's good. It's time for us to stop this workshop thank you. Is there anyone here in the audience who has some questions they'd like to ask the participants?

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Anyone?
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That's one of the best training that the deaf can get. And it's good salary, so forth.

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{SPEAKER name="Jan De Lap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
You're forgetting something. Print news printing field is really, it's unionized and many deaf got into the union and they took care of us,

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as far as negotiation for salaries and so forth, I'm really grateful to my union for giving me 7 years of good job and equal pay and so forth