Mr. PIC. It would be January 1946 we returned to, back to
Chamberlain-Hunt.
Mr. JENNER. Did you return home at all from then on until the summer of
1946?
Mr. PIC. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Where were you during the summer of 1946?
Mr. PIC. In the summer of 1946, Robert and I were informed that we
would stay at the academy to attend summer session there. Well, school
let out in May and I think summer session starts in June, so there was
a waiting period of about 2 to 3 weeks, so we just stayed there. This
suited us fine. We really liked the school.
Sometime during that waiting period my mother showed up and informed us
that her and Mr. Ekdahl had separated, and she showed up with Lee, of
course, and she was going to take us to Covington where we would stay
the summer. We had--the commandant of the school was an attorney, and I
think she got some legal assistance from him about divorce proceeding
or something. She talked to him about it, I know. His name was Farrell,
Herbert D. Farrell. He was commandant of the school. Did you ever talk
to him?
Mr. JENNER. Not that I know of.
Mr. PIC. A real nice man, too. She had the car.
Mr. JENNER. The 1938 Buick?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. She had it.
Mr. JENNER. Had she taken a home or a house in Covington?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir. When we arrived there she looked for a house, and
there always is one neighborhood two or three blocks from the downtown
area that we stayed in during the summers and she took a house in this
area. That address I don't remember.
Mr. JENNER. Does the address, the street Vermont Street refresh your
recollection, 311 Vermont?
Mr. PIC. The only thing I remember about the house is a lady next door
was plagued by squirrels throwing nuts on her roof because she was out
every morning chasing them with a broom.
Mr. JENNER. The squirrels?
Mr. PIC. The squirrels. This was a one-story brick house, and we lived
on the right side.
Mr. JENNER. You stayed there throughout the summer?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Did you return to Chamberlain-Hunt that fall?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir; we returned to Chamberlain-Hunt in September 1946.
Then for the Christmas holidays, 1946, 1947, we returned to Covington
where she and Lee still were, and spent those holidays there. During
those holidays we made one trip to New Orleans with this other boy who
lived in Covington also that we went to school with, and they were
driving to New Orleans so we all bummed a ride and went to New Orleans
and visited the Murrets a day or so. I think it was 1 day.
Mr. JENNER. Did your mother accompany you?
Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Had Lee entered grammar school at this time?
Mr. PIC. I wouldn't know, sir.