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TAPE SUMMARY Helen Austin 5/8/90 Tape I Women's Oral History interviewed by Sarah Dorrance SIDE I 001-6 009-019 020-029 030-043 044-047 048-050 051-064 065-087 087 1/2-100 100-112 112-125 125-142 143-154 154-163 163-104 1/2 Introduction Helen Austin was born in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Attended University of Illinois. Her father had a big influence on her decision to attend college. The effects of the Depression, her father was a school teacher and for three years received no pay. There was a big lack of jobs. The University she attended was large, she lived in a cooperative dormitory. Her parents survived the depression and were able to bring their family out happily. The story of how her father was able to send both Helen and her friend to college by means of the tax anticipation warrants. Helen describes her college life. Social, dating, many dances. Her experiences with Prohibition and she remembers the night alcohol became legal. Graduation 1936 from college. We discussed employment. Graduate school at Purdue. She and her husband moved to St. Louis and the time was World War II. 104 1/2-188 188-203 203-228 228-239 1/2 239 1/2-276 276-317 317-332 332-406 406-554 Her husband worked on the Manhattan Project so therefore he was deferred from the war. Life as a chemist. Taught in India. She and her husband patented a method for debittering peas. Also patented Basalt rock fibers used to reinforce concrete and plastics. Went to Korea to teach English. Extensive traveling all over the world. She and her husband wrote a book called Chemical Process Industries. Helen discussed her accomplishments. We wrapped-up the interview by looking back on her life.
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Title | Austin, Helen Oral History Interview, 1990 |
Interviewer | Dorrance, Sarah |
Date | 1990-05-03 |
Description | 35 minute oral history with Helen Austin conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She discusses her childhood in the Depression and going to college working odd jobs for money. She talks about how she and her husband both majored in chemistry, and the significance of that throughout their whole lives. She discusses how she had the best of two worlds working as a chemist and as a mother. |
Subject | Housewives; Chemistry; Teachers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman; North and Central America--United States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago; North and Central America--United States--Kansas |
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 | ua220b04f22 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.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, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua220b04f22_Abstract |
Full Text | TAPE SUMMARY Helen Austin 5/8/90 Tape I Women's Oral History interviewed by Sarah Dorrance SIDE I 001-6 009-019 020-029 030-043 044-047 048-050 051-064 065-087 087 1/2-100 100-112 112-125 125-142 143-154 154-163 163-104 1/2 Introduction Helen Austin was born in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Attended University of Illinois. Her father had a big influence on her decision to attend college. The effects of the Depression, her father was a school teacher and for three years received no pay. There was a big lack of jobs. The University she attended was large, she lived in a cooperative dormitory. Her parents survived the depression and were able to bring their family out happily. The story of how her father was able to send both Helen and her friend to college by means of the tax anticipation warrants. Helen describes her college life. Social, dating, many dances. Her experiences with Prohibition and she remembers the night alcohol became legal. Graduation 1936 from college. We discussed employment. Graduate school at Purdue. She and her husband moved to St. Louis and the time was World War II. 104 1/2-188 188-203 203-228 228-239 1/2 239 1/2-276 276-317 317-332 332-406 406-554 Her husband worked on the Manhattan Project so therefore he was deferred from the war. Life as a chemist. Taught in India. She and her husband patented a method for debittering peas. Also patented Basalt rock fibers used to reinforce concrete and plastics. Went to Korea to teach English. Extensive traveling all over the world. She and her husband wrote a book called Chemical Process Industries. Helen discussed her accomplishments. We wrapped-up the interview by looking back on her life. |
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