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Catherine M. Friel 4/28/87 Tape I Tape Summary interviewed by Andrea H. Streng Side I 1-5 5-10 10-13 13-15 15-20 20-25 Born in Pullman in 1901. Lived on College Hill and watched entire campus and town develop. Family planted maples which are now on Kappa Delta sorority~ front lawn. Father died when she was 15 yrs. old. Mother rented out rooms to the students on campus. Graduated in 1923 in English. Husband taught in Colville and coached basketball. Moved to Spokane and taught school over there. Were married and moved back to Pullman. Husband Jack coached the Cougar basketball team for 30 years. Mother belonged to For~ightly Literary Club which Mrs. Bryan started in 1893. Literary Club did much to improve community. All the purchases the club made showed that the women worked for the betterment of the city. Her mother was President of the State Federation, she travelled to Olympia and Washington D.C. Felt sh~s had many advantages living in Pullman all her life. Sh~s met some interesting people thru lectures and guest speakers. Mother came to Pullman at the age of 20. She left Wisconson where she was a school teacher. Her father came from Indiana. Graduated with a degree in law from University of Michigan. Father to~many interesting stories as she was alittle 8irl growing up. (ie. bedbug story) Father was also a, prosecuting attorney in Colfax, as well as a young pioneer attorney in Pullman. Her sisters name was Charlotte and she named her daughter after her sister. Her brother graduated from Stanford with a law degree. Faculty members still remember her husband now at banquets and events. Her drama ~reer started at age 3 and continued through her school years. Catherine M. Friel Tape I Side I continued 25-30 Side II 1-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 Summary continued 1910 flood occured rem~ers certain stories about it. People came east to improve the west. They built cab-ins and timber cultures. Timber cultures were a must inorder to live on the land, all apart of improving the land. Born in a framehouse and never lived in a log cabin. Comptons came after Dr. Holland. Mrs. Compton was quite a character and well known throughout the campus. She was a good business woman but got into everyones affairs. Catherine was a Theta and her mother was a preceptress/alumni for the girls in the sororities. Told many Mrs. Compton stories.( The oriental student and the flagstones) They kept college girls at their home to work, in return for room and board. More Compton stories and other stories of faculty on the campus. All three Cpmpton brothers were presidents of Universities. Lost two of her children in the same year. Set up memorial scholarships on campus. One in Communications and the other in Art. Told about Pullman being a small community town. Told about playing with Gertrude Bryan i~ the Presidents house. She never had a bicycle, but she had a pony named Billy Buttons.
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Title | Friel, Catherine M. Oral History Interview, 1987 |
Interviewer | Strena, Andrea H. |
Date | 1987-04-28 |
Description | 31 minute oral history with Catherine M. Friel, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. Discusses her childhood growing up in Pullman, watching the town and University grow. She and her husband remained in Pullman to raise their children. She was involved with community clubs, volunteering, and knew many of the faculty members of the University including many Presidents and their wives. |
Subject | Housewives; Clubs |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman |
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 | ua220b01f04 |
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 | ua220b01f04_Abstract |
Full Text | Catherine M. Friel 4/28/87 Tape I Tape Summary interviewed by Andrea H. Streng Side I 1-5 5-10 10-13 13-15 15-20 20-25 Born in Pullman in 1901. Lived on College Hill and watched entire campus and town develop. Family planted maples which are now on Kappa Delta sorority~ front lawn. Father died when she was 15 yrs. old. Mother rented out rooms to the students on campus. Graduated in 1923 in English. Husband taught in Colville and coached basketball. Moved to Spokane and taught school over there. Were married and moved back to Pullman. Husband Jack coached the Cougar basketball team for 30 years. Mother belonged to For~ightly Literary Club which Mrs. Bryan started in 1893. Literary Club did much to improve community. All the purchases the club made showed that the women worked for the betterment of the city. Her mother was President of the State Federation, she travelled to Olympia and Washington D.C. Felt sh~s had many advantages living in Pullman all her life. Sh~s met some interesting people thru lectures and guest speakers. Mother came to Pullman at the age of 20. She left Wisconson where she was a school teacher. Her father came from Indiana. Graduated with a degree in law from University of Michigan. Father to~many interesting stories as she was alittle 8irl growing up. (ie. bedbug story) Father was also a, prosecuting attorney in Colfax, as well as a young pioneer attorney in Pullman. Her sisters name was Charlotte and she named her daughter after her sister. Her brother graduated from Stanford with a law degree. Faculty members still remember her husband now at banquets and events. Her drama ~reer started at age 3 and continued through her school years. Catherine M. Friel Tape I Side I continued 25-30 Side II 1-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 Summary continued 1910 flood occured rem~ers certain stories about it. People came east to improve the west. They built cab-ins and timber cultures. Timber cultures were a must inorder to live on the land, all apart of improving the land. Born in a framehouse and never lived in a log cabin. Comptons came after Dr. Holland. Mrs. Compton was quite a character and well known throughout the campus. She was a good business woman but got into everyones affairs. Catherine was a Theta and her mother was a preceptress/alumni for the girls in the sororities. Told many Mrs. Compton stories.( The oriental student and the flagstones) They kept college girls at their home to work, in return for room and board. More Compton stories and other stories of faculty on the campus. All three Cpmpton brothers were presidents of Universities. Lost two of her children in the same year. Set up memorial scholarships on campus. One in Communications and the other in Art. Told about Pullman being a small community town. Told about playing with Gertrude Bryan i~ the Presidents house. She never had a bicycle, but she had a pony named Billy Buttons. |
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