1928-1936 Our Bolivia Home & Work
	Margaret Mae in Highchair the back patio? Mmmmmm... Margaret Hmmmm? Lake Outing? Marian, Bill, Wes & Bolivian friends Mealtime for Margaret Marian Wesley Bill Hazel John Margaret and her mom Margaret and Bill Margaret and Marian Buggy Ride (sisters) Missionary Kids Margaret lights up the room! Kids & friends posing with car Margaret driving Margaret & car in the garden Terciopelo Miss Rusby and Margaret aboard all four kids riding Terciopelo My Life And Times Chapter 2 In 1928 we move to Bolivia; Returning to the U.S. with Whooping Cough in 1929	But Bolivia was our first love and when the opportunity came to return we accepted the appointment for 1928 some six weeks after our Margaret came to gladden the hearts of every one, especially Marian who could see no justice in having two boys and only one girl. We asked that we might have our own home in Bolivia because we thought it would be better for the children. We were given some basement rooms which we fixed the best we could and started life in our first missionary home. How we enjoyed the food we wanted and needed!   1928 February to Bolivia Amerinst in LaPaz 1931 served as directors of Amerinst 1934 Bill & Wes in 1st year of Secondary School 1929 to USA with Whooping Cough Sumner; Seattle 1932 built own home on Amerinst campus   1935 Peru visit to Bells; kids see Cusco "ruins" 1930 John at UW (all but PhD thesis) Summer-to Bolivia 1933 built own cabin in Yungas at Chaco with the Bells 1936 to USA Automobile Trip Across States We could have our own guests and especially enjoyed having a group of students meeting in our home, asking for counseling with their problems. One of that group became President of Bolivia, Hernan Siles. We shall always feel that those various groups we worked with in the school constituted a real effort which brought results in future years. Dad took his old job as chemistry and physics teacher, was given new equipment, and pitched in to make his department better than before. Mother could not seem to get strength that first year for nursing the baby and working too, so did very little school work for a time. The next year got started and calamity struck again, this time whooping cough, and before we knew it was about, all four children were coughing. Dr. Beck had just come from the States to establish our medical work and he took over and innoculated our children as well as all the others around there. But it was too late and after a few days it was evident that the epidemic was a severe one and he said we must get the children out of the altitude. But there was no place to take them where there were good doctors, so since our furlough was due at the end of the year, it was decided that I must take them home and John would stay on to finish the school year with his classes. So with a baby of 16 months and all very sick children we started out. Dad took us down to Arica and up as far as Mollendo, went on shore and back up to Bolivia. The trip proved much harder than we could have imagined and I despaired I could get home with them, especially when we struck rough water and were all seasick, which made the coughing worse. The boat authorities gave us their isolation quarters and were grand to us but it was months before mother could bear to talk of that trip. We were met in New York and Aunt Rita insisted on taking us into her lovely home on Long Island and devoted her time to feeding and helping to get the children back to normal. Then after the best of everything for ten days the mission board got us a drawing room on the train west where our meals were served to us alone and the children began to get better and take an interest in traveling. Ellen met us in Chicago where she and Frank were in school and helped us make the change there. It was a glad hour when at last we arrived and the Bocks met us in Sumner, all very much concerned for the children.
	My Life And Times Chapter 3 Puyallup, Seattle & LaPaz 1929-1931	It being summer our local doctor advised that we live out of doors as much as possible so my father put up his big tent on my brother Leon's place on Puyallup South Hill and there they did recuperate nicely. Wesley's tonsils had to come out but my sister, Gladys, a nurse, went with me to the hospital. Everyone did so much for us and by fall we could move to Seattle where Mother Herrick found a good house for us near school and not too far from the "U" where Dad planned to go again. My own mother had passed away while we were in Chile and I was glad the children could know their Grandmother Herrick at first hand. Dad arrived in November and was able to finish all but his thesis for the doctor's degree and the children enjoyed good schools, only missing a few days out for the "mumps".
	My Life And Times Chapter 4 Building Our Own Home, 1932	The depression was on and we feared we might not get back to the field but the Bells needed to go home for furlough and we served as directors that first year, lived in the school but had our own dining room. It was evident soon that there would be no place for us to live when the Bells returned so it was decided to build the first teachers' residence using a gift from a Sunday School class we had attended at home as a start. The mission helped some and we built in things as we could finance them ourselves. True, it was not too well furnished but it was home and we lived there for two service terms with our children growing up around us and we were all very happy together.
	My Life And Times Chapter 5 La Paz 1933-1934; Yungas Cabin Chapter 6 1935 Peru Trip: Bells, Inambari River, Cusco	During this term the Bells and Herricks obtained a small place in the Yungas and planned on their own to build two small houses to serve as vacation camps. Soon after that tragedy struck the Bells and they lost their firstborn, Donald, after whooping cough. David was also very ill and they rushed him to Lima, Peru only just in time to save him with blood transfusions. They decided to leave the altitude and went down to Santo Domingo mine which was owned by a friend who wanted the Bells to do social work there. Our next vacation we spent with the Bells there and on our return took the children to see the ruins at Cusco. Our furlough was due soon and we decided to take an English boat and go third class to Cuba and cross over to Miami, get a car and drive across the States, a thing we had long wanted to do. Fortune smiled on us. We had a good trip home, saw Havana, and got our first new car, a Dodge. We drove north as far as Niagra, stopping in Washington, D.C. and New York, seeing all things of interest as we went. We stayed at cabin camps did our own cooking and all stayed well for the entire trip. From Niagra we went to Chicago, saw her wonders and then out across the Dakotas to Yellowstone Park. Thence to Washington and home.
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