Eagle Creek Resident Bio: Emily Clementine

Interview conducted March 29, 1910, by Sarah Conrad

(Emily is Sarah's best friend, confidant and co-conspirator in mischief.)
1. Name: Emily Jean Clementine

2. Date of Birth: April 9, 1894

3. Place of Birth: Billings, Montana

4. Parents: William and Jean Clementine,

5. Siblings: Brothers: James Robert (1889-), David Martin (1890-). Sister: Janice (1886-).

6. Describe your childhood. I live above and work in a bakery.

7. What did you enjoy doing as a child? Playing pranks on customers.
Did you put a lizard in Mrs. Grayson's loaf bread? -SC
Of course not. By the way, what's that in your hair?
(Sarah screams, runs around the kitchen attempting to remove the lizard from her coiffure.)
I was saving it for Sunday school, but, this moment seemed right too.


8. What is your earliest memory? Playing "paddy-cake" with my daddy.

9. How old were you when you went on your first date and where did you go? Pete Jackson and I went for a stroll last week. We went down to the creek. He tried to impress me by skipping rocks. After a while, I just walked off. He is a milquetoast dolt!

10. Married? Someday.

11. How did you meet your spouse? Whoever can rescue me from this dull town and this stupid bakery.

12. Children: None, but willing to
Emily! Don't write stuff like that! -SC

13. Grandchildren:

14. Pets? Bell the Cat.

15. Education: Junior, Eagle Creek High School.

16. What brought you to Eagle Creek? Brought here against my will by my parents when I was five.

17. Current friends: Sarah Conrad, Diane Grossman, Amanda Taylor (moved to North Dakota 1907), Martha Rhodes (playmate from Billings).

18. Occupation: Bakery worker.

19. What was your first job? Bakery worker.

20. How much did you make? Nothing. I remain a slave.

21. What did you like to do in your free time? Plan my escape.

22. What are you doing now? Thinking of a boy.
Pete, Tommy or Kevin? -SC
Yes.

23. Do you admire a famous person? Sarah Conrad.
Oh Em. That is so sweet! -SC

24. What makes them admirable? At last year's Christmas Ball she
That is not true! Who told you that? We kissed once. ONCE! And that was only because you dared me! -SC

25. What is your favorite food? Anything chocolate.

26. What is your favorite color? Pink.

27. What is your favorite song? Sarah Conrad Smells Like Dead Fish
That's not a song. -SC
Are you certain?
Why aren't you taking this seriously? -SC
Ok, fine.

28. Hobbies: Reading Vogue and The Montana Sun magazines.

29. Name of the last book you read? Romero the Pirate: A Tale of Forbidden Passions by Edith Browling. A book which you were supposed to give back to me, Sarah.
My mother found it. She gave me a "Good girls don't read bad literature" lecture and then she threw it in the trash. -SC
Oh please! Sarah, she is reading the book herself.
My mother would never read such a tawdry novel! -SC
Ask her yourself.
Not in a million years. -SC

30. Tell me about a memorable moment in your life; a time you will never forget. When I was 10, I won a baking contest. I made a Chocolate layer cake. I beat out several other women including my own mother.

31. What things do you find yourself doing that you said you'd never do? Being nice to Lynn Watson.
I told you never to do that! -SC
Sarah, you're impossible. Lynn Watson is a nice girl. Give her a chance.

32. What are the goals you are still working toward? I would like to lose twenty pounds without really trying.

33. When people look back at your life, how do you want to be remembered? As the most beautiful girl in the world.

34. What is your favorite outdoor activity? Kissing.

35. Do you attend church or religious services? Eagle Creek Memorial Church. Briefly excommunicated, October 1909. Allowed to return after I wrote "I will only use holy words in church" on a piece of paper one thousand times.

36. What is your favorite Bible verse? Jude 2:15-16
Emily, the book of Jude only has one chapter. -SC
Are you sure?
I won last year's Bible Bowl. -SC
But, aren't you the same girl who
Kissing Russell was the biggest mistake of my life. And, I don't smell like dead fish! -SC

37. What makes you happy? Realizing that Sarah Conrad is the prettiest, smartest and most desirable girl in town. (I can do it too!) -SC

38. What makes you sad? Being forgotten.

39. What frightens you? Being misunderstood.

40. What is there about you that would surprise people if they found out? I am, on occasion, capable of being serious and contemplative.