Rita Marrocco in conversation with Janet Muise in 2016.

Janet Muise is sitting on the left and Rita Morrocco is sitting on the right.  They are in a house.

Janet: The title “A light from one candle” is that…

Rita: Well he was a candle in the church, he was a leader. He was bright. People listened to him. I think it basically was our dependence on each other. Need to help each other which is about as cooperative as you’re going to get. His class, social action meant, working with other people to try to improve whatever was that needed improving in your area and loving and working with any people you know. And basically one summer he started the whole thing by giving the students an assignment and their assignment was to go around their whole neighborhood and finding out what people’s needs were. Where they were at and this that and the other thing. So finally when they started their class in September. I haven’t got any precise details, just my memory of the explanations that were given to me. But they put together all their findings of the summer and the one big obvious thing that came…People needed housing. There just wasn’t enough…