Kansas Two - Text
Caucasian female, born September 10, 1949. Has lived in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area for most of her life (both the Kansas and Missouri sides). During the Vietnam War, she lived in Wurzburg, Germany for a year where her husband was stationed with the U.S. army. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Kansas, and is currently a real estate agent. She was recorded by Shawn Muller, August 18, 1999. She is the mother of dialect speaker, Kansas One.
TRANSCRIPTION
(Uh) The first place I remember living is in an apartment (um) in the Kansas City, Missouri area, and it was kind of a well-known apartment complex back then called President Gardens. I actually lived there till after I had completed my Kindergarten year (uh), which was-- Kindergarten was held in the basement of one of the apartment buildings there in President Gardens, and it was actually part of the Center School District. And I remember my teacher very well. Her name was Miss Milke, and I remember one of the best (uh) experiences of the day, was when (uh) at snacktime she would take this little silver puncher and punch holes in the top of the milk bottles, in this little silver-colored packaging, and insert a straw so that we could each drink our milk from a bottle. And there were no throwaway things in those days. Everything was basically recycled, and we got our milk passed around to us in these little (um) bottles, little glass bottles. And I remember one day Miss Milke overlooked me. It was my turn to punch the holes in-- in the tops of the bottles, and I’d been so looking forward to it, and I knew it was my turn, and she overlooked me one day. Which sent me home crying into the arms of my mother, who wrote me a note the next day to Miss Milke asking her to remember that it was my turn to punch the holes in the tops of the milk cartons. And of course she was very angry with me, for going home and telling my mother about that, but she still gave me my turn.
And in fact recently, ran into a couple people that went all through elementary school with me. And we saw each other in a restaurant, at which time we all together sang the Marlborough school cheer. [Sings] “Three cheers for Marlborough, the best school in the land! Three cheers for Marlborough, we’ll give a great big hand. The blue and gold we proudly hail, the best school in the land! The… something-something was great, it really was first-rate. The students were the best you’ll find in any state. And so you know that we’re the top, we’re always up-to-date. M-A-R-L-B-O-R… O-U-G-H! Yay, Marlborough!”
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, March 8, 2008