[Oral History Interview with Robert Thomas] Page: 3
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Thomas: My father was a lawyer, and his father was a lawyer,
so I got into a rut there, and my son is a
lawyer. We did get in a bit of a rut there. My
grandfather, whose name was Robert, for whom I
was named, my grandfather was the first
president of Southern Methodist University,
which was founded about 1915, opened at 1915
and my mother attended SMU. My father was in
the first class of SMU, and the two of them
married, and I never fell far from the SMU
tree.
Dulaney: What did you mother do?
Thomas: She was a housewife, although she was also a
librarian. There weren't many opportunities
for women when she graduated from college, so
her father sent her up East to a library
school, and after two years--I think it was
the Simmons Library School. She came back to
SMU and was a librarian at SMU. Then, after
she began to have children and--my sister and
I, and she was a librarian at our church. So,
her professional training was librarian, but
for the latter part of her life, she was more3
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