It was great experience and a skill I never would have learned otherwise. We used the old paper punch tape varitype machine and magnetic film strips that you had to get up and change every time a customer wanted to change type fonts. This was long before desktop publishing was ever heard of. I think the main reason I got the job was because me and the other lady I worked with in the typesetting room had the same high school typing teacher and she gave me a great recommendation. I worked there for 8 years as a typesetter. I was still 17 and didn’t turn 18 until August but he hired me anyway. I graduated from high school in May 1977. ![]() Back then it was located on the second floor of Weir Hall. Shirley Stuart : Since I had no idea what I wanted to do after high school I delayed taking college courses and instead interviewed for my very first job at University of Mississippi Printing Services with Mr. ![]() Alexander when I was 18 and I worked for $1.86 per hour.īrown : Tell us how/when your Ole Miss “story” began? Who hired you? How long did you work at Ole Miss? What were your job responsibilities? Proudly I can say that I was in the very first class to start at Lafayette the first year the school opened.ĭoug Stuart : My first job was after high school and during summers working at what used to be the Ole Miss Service Station located at the four corners of University Avenue. Shirley Stuart : I attended Lafayette schools from first through twelfth grades. Although I did my share of playing with army jeeps, tanks, and toy soldiers I wanted to be a helicopter pilot. I mean, for a 5 or 6-year-old kid, that was the best part of the day.īrown : What were you really into when you were a kid?ĭoug Stuart : As a kid, I was fascinated by helicopters and always wanted to fly them. I remember a lady who brought cookies and Kool-Aid in a big metal cooler every day that week and she would sit the cooler on the tailgate of her old pickup truck and fill up our paper cups with Kool-Aid. Of course, making all the crafts with popsicle sticks and macaroni pasta, was fun and learning Bible verses and being so proud when you didn’t forget the words in front of everyone in the auditorium on the final night was a relief. Lining up outside the front door of the church and marching in behind the older kids who got to hold the flag was exciting. Shirley Stuart : One of my most cherished memories as a very young child is attending Vacation Bible School. We made our own fun.īrown : What is your most cherished childhood memory? It never occurred to us to sit in the house all day watching a TV screen. You came home when it got dark or when you got hungry. We rode bicycles or walked up and down two-lane country roads, swam in lakes and ponds. Shirley Stuart : We were fortunate to have grown up in a time when kids wanted to play outside all day and only had to be home before dark without anyone worrying about us. Shirley Stuart : I have an older sister, a younger sister and younger brother.ĭoug Stuart: I have two older sisters and a younger sister. Stuartīrown : Please talk about your parents, siblings, crazy aunts and uncles. We came back to Oxford in 1964 when my dad was Commander of the Ole Miss Army ROTC unit. Later my dad was transferred to Colorado Springs, Colorado and I lived there from ages 6 to 8. Then we came to Oxford the first time in 1958. I was born in Stuttgart, Germany in a military base hospital. ![]() Because my dad was a career military officer we lived in several different places. Shirley Stuart : I did not live in the city limits of Oxford but instead lived about 12 miles out of town, so I was a “county girl”.ĭoug Stuart : The majority of my childhood was spent in Oxford. Great couple, great friends.īrown : Where did you grow up? What is special about the place you grew up? They each have had a career beyond their Ole Miss days. They both grew up in Oxford and were connected to Ole Miss long before they began their careers on campus. I have known Shirley and Doug Stuart for lots of years. It is the goal of the Ole Miss Faculty/Staff Retirees Association to maintain communication by providing opportunities to attend and participate in events and presentations. The organization’s mission is to enable all of the university’s faculty and staff retirees to maintain and promote a close association with the university. Shirley worked in the Chancellor’s Office and Doug in the Student Union. *Editor’s Note: The latest installment in the Ole Miss Retirees features is Doug and Shirley Stuart.
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