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seamstress i 10 re was no fi 1 1 was " was or 9 12 vel eson ( I' I' a new 6 d no one. E vel • s mo g His - 2 ) s .. treet was 10. p nee loose, li 1 as rs r •. Evelyn Bartleson Oral History - 3 May 9, 1979 (Tape I, Side I, continued) writer. Always had electricity in Pullman home; heated with wood/coal s tove in kitchen, and a pot-bellied coal stove in living room. (She says she doesn't ever remember a winter in her childhood being as severe as this past winter of 1978-79 in Pullman.) 473 No automobiles in Pullman when she was a child, Evelyn says. Her mother and father were separated by the time she attended high school, and he never owned a car . She learned to drive a Model-T Ford from a boyfriend, but never had to crank it. The Weeks family ( whose son she married) bought a new Ford car when Evelyn was in high school, and invited her to accompany them when they went places in it. 509 569 Evelyn quit high school in her junior year . She picked fruit during the summer, intending to get a job in the fall. She wanted silk hose like those other girls could afford. But she had met Weeks, a farmer who, she said, had been a good student, and who had played both football and basketball , and they decided to get married in 1916 . His parents were members of the methodist Church, and she described the family as being "very religious." Weeks was exempted from military service in WWI because of farming. 626 Evelyn and her husband moved to montana to farm af ter their marriage. They had crop failures each of the six years they lived there--from grasshoppers to rain--so raised pigs to sell. Two daughters were born in Montana , before they returned to live in Pullman. After their return, her husband worked in a grocery store , then took a plumbing course, and did "pretty well" before he decided he didn't want to be married any longer. (End of Side 1 , Tape I.) Tape I, Side II: &01 Evelyn went to work at the telephone company. A friend 's daughter babysat for room and board while she worked nights . Evelyn Bartleson Oral History - 4 may 9, 1979 (Tape I, Side II, continued ) She quit after 3 months because the work made her nervous. 19 She worked as a waitress until an osteopath offered her a job as his office girl . She worked there 4 years . 28 Evelyn became interested in elective office of City Clerk . Father gained support for her from Catholic Church members. Evelyn di vorced and mother of 4 ( 3 girls, 1 boy) by thi s time . Received $40 monthly child support from ex-husband . Elected City Clerk , 1932; woman had preceded her. Evelyn had no previous political experience or interest ; needed a job to support family. Held City Clerk job two 2-year terms. Became Pullman City Pblice Matron; worked there until retirement . Describes duties . 113 Tells why police matron job her f a vorite. Discusses duties of City Clerk post, and male councilman, who felt a man should have the job. instead of a woman . mayor Wagner , who was also WSU prof, supported Evelyn. 203 Evelyn remarried in 1952 , while st i ll the jail matron. Husband (Harvey Bartleson) was a widowed State Highway Patrolman with 2 grown daughters. 227 Voted at elections; no di ff iculty here about women voting . 255 more discussion about jail matron job. 267 No significant changes in child rearing between her own childhood and the days of r earingi~ her own family, Evelyn said . 296 She believes the b~ggest change between her childhood and that of today ' s youth i s in government financial assistance in schooling. Her own children all attended college (Maxine a Fine Arts grad , WSU; son completed college education on GI Bill; Lucille, youngest, has always worked in bank. ) 350 Daughter maxine married WSU grad, attorney Pat Patterson, currently a Washington State Representative. Evelyn has 26 great-grandchildren . maxine and cousin are planning a June reunion of Weeks family . 385 Asked about retirement activities, Evelyn said she "sleeps most of the time." ~--. : ... . ·.·~·:~I·· . .. . . . -- . . . .. -..-,.. ... , . Evelyn Bartleson Oral History - 5 May 9, 1979 · (Tape I, Side II, continued) 395 Evelyn Bartleson would make no big changes if she had her life to live o ver. Grateful for her children 's and her own health , she attributed it to many outdoor activities in childhood , such as roller skating . 450 Asked wha t she would advise a great-granddaughter about life, she laughs and says they probably wouldn't listen, since youth is more interested in hearing adventure tales than advice. 483 Opinion of Viet Nam War and anti-war protestors. She feel s the protestors had talked with r eturning servicemen , and probably knew mo-re of actual conditions than the general public . 537 W~tergate - she felt some of our leaders were ~too smart for their pants." Was shocked by President Nixon's involvement. 587 Feels most women make judgments too quickly for effective political involvement, but that women make most decisions in married life, because husbands are *'too busy," and leave decision-making up to their wives. (End of Side II, Tape I.) T a p e 2 , 5 ide I 1 a06 more discussion about city clerk job ; her altercation with a professor who was ineligible to vote after moving here, and thought she didn't apply the rules correctly. ;52 Cinema cost 5~ admission in Pullman when Evelyn was a teen-ager . Wages, she thought , might have averaged 50¢ an hour . Her friend sang during silent films of the day . :76 Early day churches in Pullman, many evangelistic services. (She attended with her mother if she and her friends could go up into the balcony, where they threw spit wads.) a97 Fear of drowning during immersion baptism. 102 General observations, conversation to end of tape, at about 135. * * * * Note: On Side I I of Tape I, and again on Side I of Tape 2 , there is periodic noi se interference by a.) mrs. Bartleson •s parakeet, and b.) mrs. B. twisting the hand-held mike & cord • . , ...... ::·····
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Title | Bartleson, Evelyn Oral History Interview, 1979 |
Interviewer | Sager, Marilyn K. |
Date | 1979-05-09 |
Description | 60 minute oral history with Evelyn Bartleson, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398 course) at Washington State University. Discusses childhood - had to leave high school to start working as a fruit picker. Parents divorced when she was little and her mother worked as a seamstress for farmers. Married in 1916; first years of marriage were in Montana but crops failed. She moved back to Pullman and husband divorced her. She worked many jobs including City Clerk for 2 years and Police Matron until retirement. Remarried and lived in Pullman where she raised her 4 children. Discusses the changes for her children's opportunities. |
Subject | Detention facilities; Agricultural laborers; Rural women |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman; North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Nez Perce County--Lewiston |
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 | ua194b04f37 |
Source | Is found in Archives 194, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua194.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 | ua194b04f37_Abstract |
Full Text | seamstress i 10 re was no fi 1 1 was " was or 9 12 vel eson ( I' I' a new 6 d no one. E vel • s mo g His - 2 ) s .. treet was 10. p nee loose, li 1 as rs r •. Evelyn Bartleson Oral History - 3 May 9, 1979 (Tape I, Side I, continued) writer. Always had electricity in Pullman home; heated with wood/coal s tove in kitchen, and a pot-bellied coal stove in living room. (She says she doesn't ever remember a winter in her childhood being as severe as this past winter of 1978-79 in Pullman.) 473 No automobiles in Pullman when she was a child, Evelyn says. Her mother and father were separated by the time she attended high school, and he never owned a car . She learned to drive a Model-T Ford from a boyfriend, but never had to crank it. The Weeks family ( whose son she married) bought a new Ford car when Evelyn was in high school, and invited her to accompany them when they went places in it. 509 569 Evelyn quit high school in her junior year . She picked fruit during the summer, intending to get a job in the fall. She wanted silk hose like those other girls could afford. But she had met Weeks, a farmer who, she said, had been a good student, and who had played both football and basketball , and they decided to get married in 1916 . His parents were members of the methodist Church, and she described the family as being "very religious." Weeks was exempted from military service in WWI because of farming. 626 Evelyn and her husband moved to montana to farm af ter their marriage. They had crop failures each of the six years they lived there--from grasshoppers to rain--so raised pigs to sell. Two daughters were born in Montana , before they returned to live in Pullman. After their return, her husband worked in a grocery store , then took a plumbing course, and did "pretty well" before he decided he didn't want to be married any longer. (End of Side 1 , Tape I.) Tape I, Side II: &01 Evelyn went to work at the telephone company. A friend 's daughter babysat for room and board while she worked nights . Evelyn Bartleson Oral History - 4 may 9, 1979 (Tape I, Side II, continued ) She quit after 3 months because the work made her nervous. 19 She worked as a waitress until an osteopath offered her a job as his office girl . She worked there 4 years . 28 Evelyn became interested in elective office of City Clerk . Father gained support for her from Catholic Church members. Evelyn di vorced and mother of 4 ( 3 girls, 1 boy) by thi s time . Received $40 monthly child support from ex-husband . Elected City Clerk , 1932; woman had preceded her. Evelyn had no previous political experience or interest ; needed a job to support family. Held City Clerk job two 2-year terms. Became Pullman City Pblice Matron; worked there until retirement . Describes duties . 113 Tells why police matron job her f a vorite. Discusses duties of City Clerk post, and male councilman, who felt a man should have the job. instead of a woman . mayor Wagner , who was also WSU prof, supported Evelyn. 203 Evelyn remarried in 1952 , while st i ll the jail matron. Husband (Harvey Bartleson) was a widowed State Highway Patrolman with 2 grown daughters. 227 Voted at elections; no di ff iculty here about women voting . 255 more discussion about jail matron job. 267 No significant changes in child rearing between her own childhood and the days of r earingi~ her own family, Evelyn said . 296 She believes the b~ggest change between her childhood and that of today ' s youth i s in government financial assistance in schooling. Her own children all attended college (Maxine a Fine Arts grad , WSU; son completed college education on GI Bill; Lucille, youngest, has always worked in bank. ) 350 Daughter maxine married WSU grad, attorney Pat Patterson, currently a Washington State Representative. Evelyn has 26 great-grandchildren . maxine and cousin are planning a June reunion of Weeks family . 385 Asked about retirement activities, Evelyn said she "sleeps most of the time." ~--. : ... . ·.·~·:~I·· . .. . . . -- . . . .. -..-,.. ... , . Evelyn Bartleson Oral History - 5 May 9, 1979 · (Tape I, Side II, continued) 395 Evelyn Bartleson would make no big changes if she had her life to live o ver. Grateful for her children 's and her own health , she attributed it to many outdoor activities in childhood , such as roller skating . 450 Asked wha t she would advise a great-granddaughter about life, she laughs and says they probably wouldn't listen, since youth is more interested in hearing adventure tales than advice. 483 Opinion of Viet Nam War and anti-war protestors. She feel s the protestors had talked with r eturning servicemen , and probably knew mo-re of actual conditions than the general public . 537 W~tergate - she felt some of our leaders were ~too smart for their pants." Was shocked by President Nixon's involvement. 587 Feels most women make judgments too quickly for effective political involvement, but that women make most decisions in married life, because husbands are *'too busy," and leave decision-making up to their wives. (End of Side II, Tape I.) T a p e 2 , 5 ide I 1 a06 more discussion about city clerk job ; her altercation with a professor who was ineligible to vote after moving here, and thought she didn't apply the rules correctly. ;52 Cinema cost 5~ admission in Pullman when Evelyn was a teen-ager . Wages, she thought , might have averaged 50¢ an hour . Her friend sang during silent films of the day . :76 Early day churches in Pullman, many evangelistic services. (She attended with her mother if she and her friends could go up into the balcony, where they threw spit wads.) a97 Fear of drowning during immersion baptism. 102 General observations, conversation to end of tape, at about 135. * * * * Note: On Side I I of Tape I, and again on Side I of Tape 2 , there is periodic noi se interference by a.) mrs. Bartleson •s parakeet, and b.) mrs. B. twisting the hand-held mike & cord • . , ...... ::····· |
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