Mr. PIC. We were still living on Alvez and Galvez when we went to that
school.
Mr. JENNER. All right. That is what I wanted to straighten out.
Your mother put you and Robert in the Catholic boarding school before
the family actually moved out of the 2109 Alvar home?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right. How long were you boys at that Catholic
institution?
Mr. PIC. My best recollection is that it was to the end of the school
year, 1940.
Mr. JENNER. That would be the summer of 1940?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Your mother was not working at that time, was
she?
Mr. PIC. As far as I know; no, sir.
Mr. JENNER. What is your recollection as to why you were placed in that
institution inasmuch as your mother was not working, and at that time
you were still living or she was, with Lee at 2109 Alvar?
Mr. PIC. My impression then, sir; I don't know, I can give you my
impressions now----
Mr. JENNER. Are these impressions that you are about to give me and
I do want you to give them to me, gathered from recollection of the
course of events over a period of years?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Based on discussions in the family over a period
of years?
Mr. PIC. Based mainly on experiences in contact with my mother over a
period of years, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right; tell us about them.
Mr. PIC. I think it was probably because it was cheaper to maintain
Robert and I over at this school than it was to maintain us at home. I
mean we boarded there, they fed us, went to school. I don't know what
the fee was but this was the impression I have now.
Mr. JENNER. While you boys were at the Catholic school, did your mother
and Lee leave, if you have a recollection of this, the 2109 Alvar home?
This would be sometime between the first of January 1940, and the time
you finished the second semester, let us say.
Mr. PIC. If this house between Alvez and Bartholomew is a green house.
Mr. JENNER. Green?
Mr. PIC. Green, I can remember it. You can tell me if it was green, I
don't know, sir. I remember a green house somewhere in this time period.
Mr. JENNER. Let me get at that this way. You and Robert were lodged
eventually in the Bethlehem----
Mr. PIC. Bethlehem Orphans Home, somewhere on St. Peters Street, New
Orleans. I think this was in 1942, though, this happened.
Mr. JENNER. Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Orphan Asylum.
Mr. PIC. Right. That is the name.
Mr. JENNER. Known as the Bethlehem Children's Home?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And--all right, now, you entered there on the 3d of January
1942. Is that your recollection?
Mr. PIC. That is my recollection.
Mr. JENNER. The winter of 1942?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; I know it was a little bit after the war was
declared.
Mr. JENNER. All right. Now, taking that date, January 1942, and going
back----
Mr. PIC. OK.