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Side A 1-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 Interview with June Sharp Interviewed by Julie Saez 2 April2005 Tape Summary Introduction. Learning to read with Dick & Jane. Story of walking to school and being flogged by a rooster. Memory ofhome and outhouse. Mother cuts top off of fir tree to use as a Christmas tree. Story of first and only attempt to start the family car by crank. Family consists of parents, two sisters, one brother. Her father worked delivering fuel and later owned and operated a pool hall in Garfield. June suffers from ruptured appendix, rheumatic fever in second grade. Memory of making "dittos" in school. Remembrance of first black man--singer Roland Hayes. Shopping in Palouse. Dinner and the IceCapades with her Grandfather in Spokane. Learning to ride a bike. Ice skating in winter as a teenager. Taking a ten cent bus ride to Palouse to go swimming in summer, followed by ice cream cones from the sweet shop. Swimming lessons with a friend at WSU--teacher: Doug Gibb. Funny story-- "Follow the black mat"--4H camp. 4H camp--bunkmate falls out of bed. Learning to crochet in Campfire Girls. Playing baseball and tumbling. Accidents--Took sulfanilamide when appendix ruptured, but appendix never removed. Matchstick incident at age three. Winter sled rides on Garfield's west hill. Senior sneak to Coeur D'Alene. June marries at seventeen, still a senior in high school. Sewing. Work experience: hospital aide, teachers aide for twenty-two years. Husband started dinner "when he'd done something he shouldn't have." 50-55 55-60 60-65 65-70 70-75 75-80 Living in a small town. Most of June's family lives nearby. Marriage after school was common, met her husband in school. Children--two daughters, one son. Husband Jerry won a trip to Bermuda. Could have gone swimming, but didn't get her hair wet. First plane trip-has diarrhea during whole flight. Memories of her grandfather's dairy farm between Garfield and Palouse. Playing with her cousin in the water trough. Fond memories of the sound of the well pump and scent of the home's bathroom. Honeymoon with Jerry at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane- 1952. June's father died at age forty-five, when she was sixteen. Husband Jerry died at age fifty-four. June discovers she has von Hippel-Lindau, a genetic disease. Before diagnosis, she had admitted herself to the psychiatric war at Sacred Heart, but realized she didn't belong there and got out. A neurologist in Spokane realized that June had von Hippel-Lindau. "Doing as well as I can."
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Title | Sharp, June Oral History Interview, 2005 |
Interviewer | Saez, Julie |
Date | 2005-04-30 |
Description | 45 minute oral history with June Sharp, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She describes growing up in rural, eastern Washington. June married during her senior year in high school. She raised three children and worked outside the home. Her family settled in Oakesdale, Washington. |
Subject | Rural women; Farm life; Housewives |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Palouse; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Oakesdale |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua262b09f102 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua262b09f102_Abstract |
Full Text | Side A 1-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 Interview with June Sharp Interviewed by Julie Saez 2 April2005 Tape Summary Introduction. Learning to read with Dick & Jane. Story of walking to school and being flogged by a rooster. Memory ofhome and outhouse. Mother cuts top off of fir tree to use as a Christmas tree. Story of first and only attempt to start the family car by crank. Family consists of parents, two sisters, one brother. Her father worked delivering fuel and later owned and operated a pool hall in Garfield. June suffers from ruptured appendix, rheumatic fever in second grade. Memory of making "dittos" in school. Remembrance of first black man--singer Roland Hayes. Shopping in Palouse. Dinner and the IceCapades with her Grandfather in Spokane. Learning to ride a bike. Ice skating in winter as a teenager. Taking a ten cent bus ride to Palouse to go swimming in summer, followed by ice cream cones from the sweet shop. Swimming lessons with a friend at WSU--teacher: Doug Gibb. Funny story-- "Follow the black mat"--4H camp. 4H camp--bunkmate falls out of bed. Learning to crochet in Campfire Girls. Playing baseball and tumbling. Accidents--Took sulfanilamide when appendix ruptured, but appendix never removed. Matchstick incident at age three. Winter sled rides on Garfield's west hill. Senior sneak to Coeur D'Alene. June marries at seventeen, still a senior in high school. Sewing. Work experience: hospital aide, teachers aide for twenty-two years. Husband started dinner "when he'd done something he shouldn't have." 50-55 55-60 60-65 65-70 70-75 75-80 Living in a small town. Most of June's family lives nearby. Marriage after school was common, met her husband in school. Children--two daughters, one son. Husband Jerry won a trip to Bermuda. Could have gone swimming, but didn't get her hair wet. First plane trip-has diarrhea during whole flight. Memories of her grandfather's dairy farm between Garfield and Palouse. Playing with her cousin in the water trough. Fond memories of the sound of the well pump and scent of the home's bathroom. Honeymoon with Jerry at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane- 1952. June's father died at age forty-five, when she was sixteen. Husband Jerry died at age fifty-four. June discovers she has von Hippel-Lindau, a genetic disease. Before diagnosis, she had admitted herself to the psychiatric war at Sacred Heart, but realized she didn't belong there and got out. A neurologist in Spokane realized that June had von Hippel-Lindau. "Doing as well as I can." |
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