Back Home for Christmas (Cont.)
Screen 4 of 4The remainder of my activities in New York were routine. I gave both my landlady and the manager of the R. K. 0. Jefferson one week's notice. During that next week I economized on eating and spent nothing for things I did not absolutely need -- all this in order to put enough cash together to purchase a bus ticket back to Kentucky. I left New York on about the twenty-second of December and arrived at the "Rock House" in Bowling Green on Christmas Eve, to begin the holiday season with my family and friends. The only drawback was my deep worry about Carol, but I kept this matter to myself, after deciding it would serve no good purpose for me to talk about a situation I could not explain.
For the next forty-four years (except for two and a half years in the Navy during World War II) I was a teacher in its broadest sense, much of this time as a classroom teacher, the remaining years as an administrator in the field of education.
Being a teacher for over four decades has not prevented my occasional participation in community and university theatrical productions, including more French plays and one-act plays by Chekhov and Neil Simon -- most of these appearances taking place at the University of New Mexico. And even though this participation as a hobby has continued to give me much pleasure, I have never regretted for a minute the decision I made on that bench in Central Park in December of 1933 to leave the professional theatre and go back into teaching.
Chester C. Travelstead.
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