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Anne Burke

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1. “I believe it probably did because any religion that you are brought up in it becomes part of you, it's part of your fabric, so it's kind of there. And I did do some volunteer work, and I knew my mom did at the church, and I went with her and my brothers and sister, absolutely. So it was just part of what we do.”

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2. “treated all my students like any other student. There was no difference. It wasn't about academics. They behaved and responded differently, and that was the challenge because some of them there were nonverbal, some of them had other kinds of physical disabilities. But I worked around it. I just adjusted my teaching to them. And it was really fun. I mean, it was just a challenge for me. I didn't think, and they enjoyed it. And they learned. We learned differently.”

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3. “It probably did I think it must have subconsciously. It never occurred to me because I really didn't really think perceptual handicapped was a disability in my mind because I'm fine. I got through life. I had one year of college and I didn't think anything about it. And my parents, I don't even think I ever told my parents about what he said to me. So I didn't have that mindset. But I think subconsciously they were struggling and absolutely I identified with trying to help. But I just”

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4. “I didn't even ever see a person with intellectual differences in my whole life because in'65 they were either an institutions or in the back room, so parents never brought their kids out. I mean, there was no occasion for me to see them. It was very kind of a strange thing, but I said, well, how hard could it be? You know, I teach kids at all different levels everything.”

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5. “District, yes, and she asked him if he would consider having a program for children and adults with learning differences in the park district. This is 1965. She attached a $10,000 grant to that request and he said, well, why not? Sure. So he told Son McFetridge, asked Tom Barry, who was the general superintendent of the Park District, get some of the teachers and Phys Ed who are Phys Ed teachers to volunteer and we'll start the program. And so I volunteered and we started the program at West Pullman Park. But the difficulty, of course, was I didn't know anything about kids with learning disabilities. None of us did. There was no special education, no special recreation. No ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act.”

   2018-08-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 261 - Anne Burke · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

6. “Yeah, the park district had no program for children with learning differences at all. When I was, well, when I dropped out of college when school moved, I was hired as a full-time physical education teacher for the parks. I was at a number of different parks and I just taught regular kids in the park, all kinds of things. The Kennedy Foundation, Mrs. Shriver, knew President McFetridge, she and Sarge were the president.”

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7. “But the exercise was a revelation to me because while we were under hypnosis, the professor had the six of us go up to the chalkboard and write our name at age eighteen because most of us were eighteen and nineteen by then and your age and go all the way down every two years to write your name and your age, your name, age, name, age. And I wrote my name in my age at age five. That was the last one. When we were awakened out of hypnosis, My name was backwards, and my numbers were backwards. And that's the first time, you know, it kind of hit me because it's been a long time from being a freshman in college since the nuns told me not to go write that way. I recalled that that's how I always write. And he said you have a perceptual handicap and then just went on with the class I had no idea what that meant.”

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8. “The same reasons, and I was always transposing numbers, so I never in grammar school knew that I was doing that. So I got my math wrong all the time, but I basically got through it. But it was at George Williams that I found out that there was something wrong with me. It was kind of interesting. I was in a class and Arthur Steinhouse was the professor. And he was doing some research. He wanted to know if he had six people volunteer for this, whether you could perform basketball free throws better under hypnosis or not being under hypnosis. So I volunteered, why not? Under hypnosis, I actually did much better. Shooting through.”

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9. “It did. After my first year, it moved nineteen sixty three to Downers Grove, so I dropped out of school, but I was really kind of happy about it because I knew the next year I was going to have to take kinesiology, which was science. And I really couldn't do math because I”

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10. “And I told her, I said, I like to trum my baton, tap, dance, swim, art. And she said, you should be a gym teacher. And so she helped me focus on that, and she helped me with studying a little bit. I never really got more than C+ or maybe, you know, a low B once in a while in high school. The Park District offered scholarships to kids who were in the parks to go to college to be gym teachers, so I took that test. That wasn't written, which was a good thing. It was an oral test”

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11. “I still was a C student, but a particular woman, a nun, Sister Henrietta kind of took me under her wing, and she helped me with reading and she helped me with what I would call now executive functioning, how to organize myself and do things. And she finally asked me when I was a sophomore, what are you going to do when you graduate from high school? I really didn't know, and nor did my parents ever talk about it. My dad or my mom never went to high school. And my older siblings, my brothers went into the service, and my sister went to Chicago teachers college for a year. Then she did cantometer work and worked in a drugstore, but I never even thought about it until she mentioned it. And she asked me, what do you really love to do?”

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12. “It was. I mean, I didn't realize there was a struggle. I mean, I read everything. I struggled to write because I would start from the right to the left. I didn't really know what that meant, but the nuns told me, you know, you got to start from with the ruler, left to right. But then I learned to do that. So I was trained to go from left to right. And for reading the same thing, I would start right to left and get all jumbled up and focusing on the page. But I didn't think anything was odd about that since I didn't know anybody how anybody else saw things. I just thought I was just like everybody else. But I had a lot of friends who did really well in school. I just felt I was somebody who didn't really do well. But I did okay in the arts and in sports. But by the time I got to high school,”

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13. “I only was a C student in school, but I was really kind of a happy child most all the time because I did a lot of things. I grew up in the parks in Chicago, Chicago Park District. I hung out there, played bean bags and Excelled in some sports and did a lot of art. I really was creative. My mom taught me to sew, so I made all my own clothes at one time, even made my own wedding dress. So I gravitated towards the arts, let's just say that. So I felt fulfilled. And my mom and dad never said you have to do better in school. I passed. By the time I got to Maria High, it was”

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14. “I did, but I didn't know I had any struggles. I was like an only child because the next one to me, you know, is much older.”

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15. “No, they went to New York. Like a lot of immigrants, they went right to New York, Mulberry Street, Mott Street. And to a parish there, Transfiguration parish. I know that. I know the address of the apartments. I know my grandparents actually got married there. Sarah Rice and my grandfather, James McLon, and I visited Transfiguration Parish. But now it's Chinese. As many neighborhoods, it transforms once the Certain class and population of immigrants from one country, another one moves in. So it's a Chinese church now. But I have a lot of records and I just have to spend a little more time working with someone to help me find where in Ireland. We came from.”

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16. “Competent man, but he told me that there were McLones in the north, and he actually knew a McLoan because I have not been able to find any McLones in the South. So at least I have a starting point. But were they left from, what county I'm not sure”

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17. “So a lot of history has been lost and he didn't know much because he was the youngest and his siblings were pretty much all gone and he was the last one home at thirty fourth in Union. But I have been doing some research lately and so we know the McLones came in in the early eighteen fifties came over but we don't know from where and I've searched and searched and I finally found somebody, in fact our Irish council general Brian O'Brien now is from the north.”

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18. “I did. I grew up actually at 47th in Ingleside in Woodlawn until I was about ten. I have three older siblings, one the next one to me is nine years older and the oldest one is fifteen years older and I only have one sibling left. I lived on the second floor of an apartment building. In fact, I never lived in a house until after I was married. I always lived in an apartment. My dad was a bartender. Actually, he had a speakeasy at 47th in Lake Park during prohibition and served liquor and coffee cups from what I hear. And my mom was a homeworker. And so we did move further west to Southside Irish Catholics do. We went from St. Ambrose Parish on 47th Street to St. Rita Parish on 63rd Street. And so I went to finished out St. Rita Grammar School at 63rd in Washington and then went to Maria High School at 67th.”

    2018-08-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 261 - Anne Burke · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source