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Oral History Interview with Marjorie Jones
Audio from Oral History Interview conducted on April 12, 1996.
Transcript of Audio
Interviewer: How do you feel you help preserve Jewish culture here at the Shula?
Majorie: We had to get our own house, which wasn’t easy because it was the Depression time, and so on and so forth, nobody had any money and we found a little place in Bellmore and so we moved there. And my dad came from Germany and he loved gardening and everything and this house, this place, it had a chicken coop and the house was on one corner of the property so that he had a big vegetable garden. We had every vegetable under the sun you can think of, and we had our own chickens and our own eggs, and so, we loved that house. It just met our needs beautifully. And I went to Hofstra, well, it was Hofstra College at that time, and I got my degree in mathematics over at Hofstra and then happy days at Hofstra.
Nancy: Were you one of the few women who were pursuing a degree in mathematics?
Marjorie: Oh, yes. I was basically the only woman in the class and I did have some physics courses and things, and I was just, you know, I was really the only girl at that time. And I had many wonderful days at Hofstra and then I graduated in 1952 from Hofstra, and I had met my first husband at Jones Beach in 1949 when we were both working there. He was going to law school at the University of Virginia and I had just finished my first year at Hofstra. And I was working as a cashier for the Jones Beach Catering Corporation and he was working for the [unknown] State Park Commission, he was the assistant manager of [unknown] house.
Nancy: What was his name?
Majorie: His name was Robert Lee Anderson.