Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That was my first job with Clark, because I
worked for Nardis before.
Mr. JENNER. And you worked for Clark for how long?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. For Clark, on and off almost until our trip, our
walking trip to Central America. I worked with them until 1960.
Mr. JENNER. That was in 1960?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1960.
Mr. JENNER. Then you had your walking trip throughout the spring and
summer and fall of 1960?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; it was just fall. We started October 6. We
left Dallas on October 6 or October 5.
Mr. JENNER. 1960?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. 1960.
Mr. JENNER. And you returned when?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. And we returned to Dallas fantastically close to
the same date--in the very first days of October. I worked for another
company for one season, 6 months, Justin McCarthy, before our trip.
Mr. JENNER. Spring or fall?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. That was summer, just before we went on our
trip. I believe it was June, July, and August, September, maybe too.
1960. I worked almost until the last day before we left on our trip.
Mr. JENNER. And you got back in 1961. Then did you return to work when
you got back?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. No; I didn't, because we thought we are going
to go back to Haiti in 6 weeks. The contract that my husband was
negotiating was supposed to materialize within 6 weeks. And I was
stupid enough to talk about it, tell everybody. So, naturally, I could
not take the job for a short time, because designing you are involved.
You start and cannot drop it. And then it was dragging and dragging and
dragging, and actually took a year instead of 6 weeks to materialize
the whole thing.
Mr. JENNER. But it did eventually materialize?
Mrs. DE MOHRENSCHILDT. Yes; fortunately it did. Because I was badly
hurt by it, and so was he, because everybody knew he is going to go off
on this, and he couldn't do very much, either.