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Eddie Boland called my father, because they had worked together in the garage 
at the newspaper. They knew each other when Eddie Boland was going through—

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to school and said, “Your daughter—could she be a Boland girl? 
I’d like to have her come down and be a Boland girl.” Well, what did that mean? 

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Department stores were open till 9:00 in the evenings on Thursday nights, 

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so we would go down there in front of Forbes and Wallace and Steiger’s, the two 
big department stores—when we had department stores downtown, not in malls. 

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And I would wear a hat and a banner across my chest,  
and I’d hold a placard, and we’d walk around in circles.

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And a number of women—and men, 
but mostly females, young women, and young girls—

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and we’d say, “Vote for Boland" to everybody.” 
And it was busy. It was active. There was a lot of activity going on. 

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So that was my introduction to kind of organizational politics, rallies, 
demonstrations—visibility, as we call it today, in organizational politics. 

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So that was kind of intriguing.