b"Were you born in New York City?Yes, in the Bronx.Did you go to high school in the Bronx?No, Manhattan. Hunter High School. Then I went to Hunter College. Hunter High School was harder than Hunter College. I got a degree. I also got six months in social work, but then I met my husband. Like a fool, I stopped everything.That was it, yeah.Did you get an undergraduate degree?I got a degree. I was a history major, I think economics and poli sci. But you know how it is, you go and look for a job, you're not qualified for anything. You're not like a mathematician or scientist, so, that's why I looked for a city job. I graduated in '43.You graduated during the war, but you didn't become a riveter?No, I didn't. That was Rosie. [both laugh] That was before your time.Did you work when you were in high school?No, no. No, I didn't work when I was in college either. I know a lot of kids did. But I lived through the Depression,that I know.Do you have siblings?I had a sister and a brother. My sister died young; she was about 56. My brother died at 70. They both didn't takecare of themselves.Were your parents born in this country?My mother was, but my father came from Hungary when he was about a year, 18 months back in the 1880s.Did you know your grandparents?Not on my mother's side, they died. I just knew my father's side, my grandmother and my grandfather.Do you know any Hungarian?No, but my mother was a good cook. She learned to make some Hungarian dishes and they were good.What was your maiden name? Fisch. But I understand in Hungarian, it was Hal they changed it.Hal means fish. I'll tell you something interesting, it will make you laugh. Why was I called Grace? And my last name was Fisch. I was named after my greatgrandmother Goldie. So, I would have been Goldie Fisch.59 "