Name: Kenneth Eugene GerhardtInterviewer: Shaun Gerhardt, Grade 9Question: What is your full name?Answer: Kenneth Eugene GerhardtQuestion: How old are you?Answer: 51Question: What is your mother's maiden name?Answer: WeagleQuestion: Where have you lived up to this point in your life?Answer: I have lived in Liverpool, Halifax, New Minas, Digby, Liverpool a second time, Bridgewater, Bridgetown and Digby a second time.Question: How are you relationships with your family?Answer: Good, with the occasional conflict because of different points of view.Question: What are your religious beliefs?Answer: ChristianQuestion: What were some of your favourite pastimes when you were a kid?Answer: I liked to play cowboys, Hide and Seek, play with toy army soldiers and dinky toys. I also enjoyed biking, baseball, and road hockey. As I got older I enjoyed hanging around at the pool hall, music and girls.Question: What are some of your values?Answer: A traditional family, a good enjoyable job, happiness, recreation, hard work, pride of ownership, respect for others, and helpfulness.Question: What are some of your social patterns?Answer: Family, days in the work place, member of an organization, attend sports events, recreational vehicle, camping and traveling.Question: What was your childhood like?Answer: I grew up an only child in a traditional family that stayed home most of the time. We occasionally visited family. When I was very young I went to a nursery school and played with kids that lived near my home.Question: Were you involved in the community at all?Answer: I was in Boy Scouts.Question: What type of jobs have you had?Answer: When I was very young, around 8, I delivered milk from door to door by horse and wagon with my uncle. In my teen years, I cleaned automobiles, delivered furniture for a local furniture store, worked at a scale house weighing trucks carrying asphalt, crushed rock, and gravel, pilled lumber at a sawmill, and I played the drums in a rock and roll band. Now I work at the bank.Question: Of all the jobs you have had which did you stick with the longest and how long did you stick with it?Answer: I have worked at the bank for 28 years.Question: Where did you go to school? University?Answer: I went to school in Liverpool, Liverpool Regional High School and I attended Saint Mary's University in Halifax where I obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree.Question: When you went to school did you ever get the strap and if you did how many times?Answer: I only got the strap once.Question: Did you like all your teachers going to school?Answer: Yes, but some more than others. There were none I didn't like.Question: When did you get your first girlfriend?Answer: Grade three. Her name was Janet and she was in grade two. I remember a couple of teachers found out and teased me about it. We only ever met at school.Question: Were you a collector of anything and if so, what did you collect?Answer: I collected hockey and baseball cards. Canadian coins, airplane tokens out of Jello boxes, bottle-caps of hockey players off bottles of coke, and I once had a dinky toy collection but the garbage man accidentally took it away. Question: What was the first car you ever owned?Answer; A 1967 Chevrolet Bel Air, 4 door sedanQuestion: What is the favourite car you have ever owned?Answer: A 1975 Cutless Supreme. It was a 2 door, white in colour with a red interior. It was comfortable, stylish, sporty with swivel bucket seats, and fast. My dad gave it to me when I graduated from University. It was the car I owned when I met my wife.Question: What is the least favourite car you have ever owned? Why?Answer: An early 80's Cavalier. It was a cheap, ugly, gutless, and I had a scary accident with it. A dump truck rear ended me on the A Murray Mackay Bridge in Halifax one morning on my way to work. I was not hurt, just shaken up a bit. Question: What is your biggest accomplishment in life?Answer: Lasting 28 years at the same job.Question: When did your family get their first T.V.?Answer: We got it in the late 50's or early 60's. It had a black and white picture as there was no colour picture TV's at that time and there was only one channel, CBC, to watch. It was a surprise when it arrived as my dad did not tell us ahead of time.Question: What is your favourite show of all time?Answer: I have two. I liked Gilligan's Island and the Beverly Hillbillies.Question: What is the one thing you have most wanted but have never got?Answer: A motorcycle. In my teen years I wanted a Honda 300 Superhawk. That was a big Honda in those days as a 450 was the biggest. Of course a Honda was not a big as a Harley. My buddy's family operated a local hunting and fishing store and also sold Hondas. I use to hang out there a lot and got to help put the small 50cc scooters away at night.