Today Is Wednesday, February 7, the Year 2001. We're In
George Perles February 7, 2001 Jeff Charnley, interviewer Charnley: Today is Wednesday, February 7, the year 2001. We’re in East Lansing, Michigan. I’m Jeff Charnley, along with Fred Honhart, interviewing Coach George Perles for the MSU Oral History Project for the university’s sesquicentennial to be commemorated in the year 2005. Coach Perles, you can see that we’d like to tape-record this interview. Do you give us permission to tape? Perles: Certainly. Everything’s fine. Charnley: I’d like to start with some general description of your growing-up years and family life. Where were you born and raised, and where did you go to school before college? Perles: I was born and raised on the west side of Detroit, Vernon Central, and lived in an apartment, 7728 Pitt. It’s hard to forget. It was a one-bedroom apartment. I didn’t have any brothers or sisters. My bedroom was the living room in the Murphy bed. We always had enough to eat. My father worked at the Ford Rusch [phonetic] plant, and was a badge checker and then later on became a clerk in the office. I went to Detroit Western High School, which is located on Scotten [phonetic] and Verner [phonetic] Highway, very close to the Cadillac Motorcar Company at that time. When I was a junior, my parents moved to Allen Park, Michigan, but I continued to go to Detroit Western High School and finished up there. ad a good life as a child, always had the basics, food, clothes, and my dad always worked.
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