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Let me have a sound level. Just talk regular. Okay. I'm going to be talking to you, I guess, about this level. Sometimes I get a little carried away with my conversation. Do you want to holler to Jack to take the phone off the hook? I can sleep along that. Right. Tell me about, first off. Suzanne as USA and yes white hyphen about and b o w d e n. Okay. Right. Tell me about camp Whippoorwill. Camp were for. Well, I had a wonderful time. I guess I was about ten years old and I was a Girl Scout. So my parents thought it would be fun for me to go to camp, were for Will. And then at the end of camp, they had a beauty contest and the girls in my tent said, Susan, you really should enter because I had this bathing suit that was strapless for a ten year old. So I wore this bathing suit that was strapless, and I didn't take a deep breath and it stayed up and I on I became this whippoorwill. And I got teased forever after when boys that I dated later found out that I was Miss Whippoorwill, they'd give up the whippoorwill whistle, quit rule on my face would get red. So I'm really this is the first exposure of that for a long time now that Jack knows. And if you know, what are you going to do? I don't know. Well, that experience, I mean, you obviously learned at a very young age that you are pretty and perhaps prettier than some kid, that it was ever in the back of your mind when you began this career and TV. Sure. Sure. You are conditioned as children to know what you have, what your advantages are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=15.07,128.88"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And when I started in television, I really wasn't educated to do much else but use what God had given me a fairly attractive appearance. I didn't have an education, and when I wanted to go to work outside the home, as they say, and earlier as a teenager when I started modeling, I thought it would be fun to do something. And so I used what I had and that that's really what led me into television, looking the way I look. And when they hired me to do news, I knew why they hired me because I had blond hair and I was fairly attractive and they needed to dress up the set. Before however you got into TV, you were modeling. Yes. But you were also a model with three children. Yes. Yes, you're right. I was even in my early 20s, I had had three children because I was married in my teens. So I was a married mom, a good looking mom, a model mom with three is the point I'm trying to make. Yes. Yes. So, you know, but that didn't that didn't damage, you know, my my parenting, I don't think as a matter of fact, I included the children sometimes in commercials when modeling led into TV commercials, eating potato chips and pouring beer. My son was in a Knotts potato chip commercial, and one of my daughters did a Stuart Department store commercial, so I took him along with me. Do you recall you were you were somebody's girlfriend? I would somebody a girlfriend on television. Somebody on television, Yeah. Who would get that? A big p w doodle Royal Parker. I was Sarah Jane. And I wrote these skits for his afternoon kids show, and I went in and dressed up with pigtails and freckles and made a nuisance of myself and got the opportunity to get some experience on television.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=129.72,253.89"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I blacked out my front teeth. I'd do anything to be on television. Wouldn't a lot of people that got started in the early days and and that sort of somebody noticed, obviously or you had some somebody obviously evidently saw some talent there, some camera presence, as it were. And then you got a chance to do a To do what for, for your. Well, actually the p w doodles girlfriend and the modeling the Manno Schwartz furs on the Sunday night, 11:00 news with Royal Parker led to my going in to talk to Jed Duval who was the news director WB Al at the time and saying I would like to do more. I would like to write copy, I'd like to be a reporter. He said, Let's try it. So I was there for three months and then moved on to air and was there for 22 years. But you were also on the show? yes. That was one of the first modeling jobs I had when I was a Walters model, the Walters Academy on Howard Street. They would send the teenagers or the young models out to model and a gowns on the Buddy Dean show for nothing. But we got experience and I was. There with my ad again on the Buddy Dean show. It was great. I felt like a star. No, you were. You are. And that you say that was around, what, 63? You say 62. 63. Just in case I can look for that. I'll have it while working at Channel two. And you, you spent a lot of time at Channel two. Yeah. 22 working there. A a young fella. Not so young. Jack started working there. And what was your first impression of Jack? I thought he was a lunatic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=255.33,367.83"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was a good reporter, great anchor. But he would go up to deadline and he would cast his typewriter. He'd rip the paper out of the typewriter and he'd start all over again. And he was about a minute or 30s away from our time. He was frantic half the time. Husband material? No. My goodness, no. I used to say, I pity the poor person that has a relationship with him. No. No matter what happened. I mean, it was how many years after that? And we're now at least ten, ten, 12 years, right? Yes. A decade later. A decade later, Yes. I had been divorced. He was between girlfriends. And he said, we've always had a good time on the set. We did. We were friends. We developed a good friendship. And he said, Let's go out for dinner. You know, we'll have a few laughs. Well, it was instant romance. It was love. Like Hollywood loves to portray it. Bells and lights. It was wonderful. And I had known that side of Jack and outside the news set off to say he was sad. He was calm and gentle and collected and and considerate and lovable and concerned. I mean, never thought about himself or. Or the deadline or his career or anything like that. Then you were married When we were married in 1979, June 10th, 1979. Live happily ever after. So far it gets better and better. Okay. You've you've written several books and your first one was a result of of a tragedy. Yeah. And was the death of your son? Yeah. So I sort of got you into writing books because what, you were giving a lot of lectures about that sort of grief and decided to put it down on paper.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=368.97,481.68"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah. I had learned so many lessons from my son's suicide that I was sharing those lessons with others to help them try to avoid that kind of tragedy. And after speaking out for a number of years, really before I set out to write a book, I realized that what I was saying was having some impact on people. So I thought if I could get it down on paper, I could reach more people. And that's happened. As you know, the book has been printed in German, and and people all over the world have responded and written to me and and told me that it has touched their lives. Now you're given on another message which this new message that I hear about the new miss message. New message from Susan about like turning 50 in the 90s. Yeah, it's great. It's great. I think this is going to be the best decade of my life. And that's what I've written about in my new book, Grandparenting Dealing with Grown Children, Career Change, Elderly Parents. And there's humor as well as sincerity in this book. This was fun to write. So you have a message. What's next? What's next? Well, I've always thought that I would like to do a novel set in television. It would have to be fiction because no one would believe what really goes on inside of television. Well, is there is it going to be a local setting? Of course it would be based on my experience and the people I know in television. Any of the local politicians involved? Maybe. It sounds it sounds wonderful. It's wonderful in my head. Now, if I can get it down on paper, it'll be great. I'd like Jack to be involved with this book.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=482.07,590.2"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We could coauthor it and the people reading the book, if they were from this area, would they know? Would it be clear enough who you were talking about, even though the names would be aliases? Probably. Well, all right. So we have we have your husband is now working is still working as a reporter and are. What else are you doing with yourself? I'm doing some video production work. I've done some videos for schools, worked on the the video for the March of Dimes walkathon last year of businesses, that kind of thing. But mostly I'm at home working out of my home, helping out with the grandchildren who live nearby, keeping house, doing all those things that I left 30 years ago and I'm now back doing full time. Finally, I think, first of all, how many grandchildren? Six grandchildren. Okay. Finally, the Don Rickles thing. Yeah. Set it up. And if you if you shut it up for me and you were you had an opportunity to fence with Don Rickles, only he was he didn't really know what you were doing. No, I was on a movie junket in Yugoslavia. It was the movie set of Kelly's heroes. And broadcasters from all over the world were having this having the opportunity to interview Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas and Don Rickles. So when my opportunity came to interview Don Rickles, I decided to turn the tables on him. I decided that I would try to get my nerve up and put down the king of the putdown, insult him for it, for not let him get a word in edgewise and insult him. And it worked because he realized about 30s in what I was doing and he played to it. But it was a wonderful moment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=590.83,710.98"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The movie set applauded when I left that set. It was great. It was great. Of all the things now, I mean, if you had if somebody came up to me and said, all right, you got one wish for your future. I mean, considering everything that has happened to Susan has happened, nothing can be changed. And you want to move on to the next thing. What would that be, Guy One wish. My heavens. Which I mean, what. What is really outstanding in your mind right now that that not necessarily a long term goal. It just may be something that you want to do that might be right around the corner that this book be a big success, that it will give me the opportunity to go on and write that other book and spend my time just as I'm now spending it. You might get a call from Oprah, you and Oprah, buddy. She might want to do a movie on this book. Hey, I hadn't thought of that. Well, she's certainly got the money to write, and she knows a thing or two about Baltimore. Yes, right. You were born and raised in Baltimore County. I was born at Maryland General Hospital. August 4th, 1939, raised in Baltimore County, the Randalstown Parksville area. And you maiden name was Scheid. Ach, Heidi Susan our Susie Scheid. Then it became Susan White and then Susan wiped out and went to Randalstown Elementary School. Not for no high school. That's it. And so you've you spent your whole life in Baltimore County for the most part, and now live in Carroll County. Just that's that's Carroll County. Yeah. This is Carroll County. 111 final thing. Well, I just have to think about it. The Russian thing. Yes. We had some fun over there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=711.88,830.95"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We was outside of the American embassy. And while all that scandalous activity was reputedly going on inside, we were outside. That was a pretty nice trip. It was a wonderful trip. It was a wonderful opportunity. And it was such fun. It was fun to get to know the symphony members and it was fun to get to know our colleagues such as you and I got to become real friends, even though we'd work together for years and years. We had a lot of laughs. It was it was really one of the best trips that I've ever taken, and I got a great deal out of that. All right. So I just wanted to just. Yes. Okay. That's great. You know. Thank you. My nice. It's it's been it has really been a sharing experience. You know, it's something that I do benefit and it does come back and it is a circle that keeps going. So I it is it can be very, very rewarding. Five, six. Yeah. 5 or 6. And that was Baltimore County. The way they run the section that runs between Liberty and Rush, the English Center. I had a little puppy and you were were about nine here. And I had ten, I think. So little dog named Skipper. Skipper. English. Ladies and gentlemen. Born with a silver shovel. Spade. Now, that's pretty uncomfortable for his parents. Used to send him down here twice to visit relatives right away from New York when he was a kid. A teenager. So there's one time. Courage, right? Romance. Right, right, right. Everybody. Everybody who when they went when the when the segment was over, they had a smart. I was hired. Okay. And because women didn't do it except for ambition. Right. Or she's a lawyer for some, I mean, she's you know, she's up in New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=831.13,1036.41"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With two young dignitaries. I'm the president. And probably. Yes. Yeah. Mayor Schaefer at the time. Right. When you were in your 20s, when you kicked when it was starting to get out, right? Like 3 or 5. She started working as a regular as a feature reporter, and then a couple of months later, a young fellow by the name of Jack Madden came in and she said he was. He was a maniac. That's what you are. He was. They hired a young writer and assignment editor named Jack Bauer. Who is that guy? He's with Low James. Low James. And even though when she saw him, that smile on her face belied the fact that it was a decade or more before they got romantically inclined around their wedding. And if you had something to say about shoes and white balance, career or life, it would be a really big show. You aren't going to watch people that are uncomfortable. If you're enjoying yourself. And I think they know, too. You know, they know you can't fool people. It's the most fun time. I bet it was the the Whippoorwill camp, the Girl Scouts and Orange County camp. Whippoorwill Camp, Whippoorwill, the Girl Scout camp that was located in Idaho County on the eve of the seven or the magazine. P.W. Doodle was, of course, Royal Parker, but he was he was on Channel 13, but not as P.W. you know, He was Captain Pop up. Okay. And once again, you were in your early 20s here. Yes. And you became the girl up just to get on television. You became the girlfriend of Peter. We do sports first. Let's remember the Sunday night newscast with Royal Parker Live. Matter. Schwartz First, you were a five foot seven and a half call for a woman back in the in the 50s and 60s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872#t=1044.95,1179.84"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136860/file/253872/transcript/71689/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"62. Yeah. 50. 50. 60. And I'm going to stick right back. Work with film often. You know, it's really nice. I had my sit down at the archives. Now that they know I'm serious about this day, I have a pretty nice set up. It's. It's in a warehouse. It's filthy, it's dirty. But I still it's. I've done miracles with it. But the point is, I have, I guess rewinds and I have the old film Spacers and, you know, the equipment that we used to work with a thousand years ago. Right. I have. Right. And it's wonderful. The picture of the one is that where you were married? College. Now we found one where I wasn't married. Now we need to find the one where we live. There's Jack. That was the guy. That's so hard to explain. That was the guy who did The Planet of the Apes makeup? 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