b"One year for National Infant Immunization Week, which is something that they have every April, we decided to go to eachBorough to promote that. Immunization had Federal monies also. I suggested that we go to the Y's, the YMCAs. They havea YMCA in all the Boroughs. The Bronx only has one, unfortunately. But Brooklyn has about three or four of them and allthe other Boroughs have Ys. So, we did. We got several of our healthcare industry groups that go to health fairs come and promote their programs. For instance, the American Lung Association set up a table, some of the local programs at hospitals, like that. Everybody gives out little doodads, pill-holders and all kinds of stuff like that. Another one of my jobs was to pick out the different things that we would give out with our message on it. It's a lot of fun.What did the health advisor that you were supervising do? It was basically health promotion. Another thing that we did was to go out to drug treatment programs. People whouse drugs are more susceptible to getting hepatitis, Hepatitis B mostly, or C. We would go out and speak to them abouthow drug usage would make them vulnerable to picking up these illnesses. She would assist me. Actually, I had two people that I supervised. The first one was dynamite, the second one, she was very resistant. She was difficult. We just went to wherever we got requests. We also did something we called street outreach,which was to go around tovarious locations and let them know about our services. Sometimes they would book a presentation. We would go to WICprograms to speak to the mothers and fathers about the importance of having your children immunized on time, onschedule. We would go to PTA meetings; we would go to teachers. During the week before school started, wepulled together all the public health advisors and put together a training. This was when I was in school health. One of my mentors, Daisy Peart, was a diabetes educator. So, I had her come and speak to these young people. She went back toschool like she was encouraging me to do. She went to Columbia and got her master's degree. I booked the auditorium at Woodhull Hospital, where I used to work and, got all the staff to come in there. She spoke to them about diabetes and the nutritional part of it and what you needed to do to treat it. Then these public health advisors could use this information in their schools.Was your responsibility to brainstorm about these training programs?Yeah, to help with the training. Once a month, we would have a meeting with the doctors, nurses and advisors in the schools, high school as well as elementary school. I would let them know exactly what I was doing. Some of themwould request that I come to their school and do presentations or training.What does it mean to you to be a union member in general and for Local 237?It's a brother and sisterhood and it's a support system. I have done a few of the events that they have for retirees. The benefits are very helpful. I wear glasses. Every two years I have my eyes examined and I get my glasseschecked. I don't use the dental services because I use my husband's plan. I read the newsletter and when I saw the oral history project, I was immediately interested, but I didn't move on it right away. But then this year, I said okay,I'm going to sit down and write something. I thought I was pretty comprehensive, so I'm surprised that they wanted to interview me. 188 "