Wilmette Public Library Local History Digital Collection

Rhea Saul Adler (1906-1990) oral history

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Transcription: CD 2 Track 3 RF: . . . have been active as a volunteer at Newberry, you have been active as a volunteer at the Wilmette Public Library until very recently. I think you have given a lot of yourself. RA: Well, I've gained much more. RF: Well, that's a two-way street. RA: Yeah, this is the way life is. . . RF: Right. RA: . . . and it should be as I see it. You always get back more than you give. RF: Tell me about your children. Your children are living in . . . RA: Three daughters. Married. RF: Married. RA: Two on the west coast. One in Westchester County, New York. And they're all active in different activities. And that was when I decided, that when they started doing community things, in their own communities where they were living, that I could sit back and do as I pleased. RF: Well, it never made you sit back, but it was nice that you were able to pass it on. RA: Well, I could do what I wanted to. That was the thing that I felt. The things I had done previously, I didn't always do for myself. I did because I thought that it would be helpful to raising my children, and it was. As my husband said one night going from the library, "You know you study more since you've left school than you did in school." RF: And that's very admirable. RA: Well, the thing was that I knew what I was seeking, and it was what I wanted and not what somebody else was imposing on me. RF: How many grandchildren do you have? RA: Uhhh. Eight. Four boys and four girls. RF: Are they married? RA: Most of them are married. RF: Do you have any great-grandchildren? RA: I have one. And she's coming next week. RF: Oh, right. RA: So we're looking forward to that. RF: And Harry is still working. RA: Still working. He's been retired for fifteen, or is it thirty years? RF: [Laughs]. RA: No, is it thirty years he's been retired? RF: Well, I don't know how he even retired. RA: Fifteen years. He's not retired. He works seven days a week. RF: Right. He can call that retirement. RA: Well, he says: "What would I do? You can't read all the time." He's an avid reader, and the library has meant a great deal to him. But his reading is for recreation because he has so much thick reading to do with his business. RF: So, here you both are, still, after your children are grown and after many years of marriage and everything, you are still very involved and active in doing things of interest. Because he's working and he's reading, and you're reading and you're still, not as active as you used to be, but you are still very much plugged in on what is going on through your different contacts.; Fleischer, Regina
, Interviewer; Adler, Rhea Saul, 1906-1990
, Interviewee; Barnett, Amanda
, Transcriber
Media Type: Audio; Text
Item Type: Audiocassettes
Description: Interview of Rhea Adler by Regina Fleischer at 401 3rd Street, Wilmette, IL, in 1985.
Notes: Photograph of the first public library in Wilmette, Illinois
Place of Publication: Wilmette, Illinois
Date of Original: About 1985
Date Of Event: About 1985
Subject(s): Libraries
Oral histories
Wilmette Public Library
Personal Name(s): Adler, Rhea Saul
Language of Item: English
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