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Tape Summary Interview with Dr. Mignon Perry May 8, 1990 Side B 11 0-1 Born June 8, 1920. She is the third daughter. She was born in Rexburg, ID., then moved to Utah. Tells about parents. 1-11/2 Tells about what kind of jobs she and her sisters had. Tells how close she and her siblings were. 11/2-2-3 Talks about the Mormon Church, father was a Bishop for 18 years. Tells how close her extended family was as far as location. Talks about cousins and how they are all going to write a book together. 3-4 Talks about all of her education in Utah, College, working at Marshall Fields and getting her Masters. Then she tells about her time here at WSU, teaching and being chairperson of Clothing and Textiles Dept. 4-41/2 Tells about her friends when she was growing up and how much the church had to do with it. 41/2-43/4 Talks more about friends. How she matured early, and dating patterns within her group. 43/4-5 5-51/4 51/2-6 6-End Talks about high school class meeting every five years still, how she has kept in touch with her close friends from Utah. How the Depression affected her family and the town. Tells about wwrr and how the day before their college graduation all the boys in her class were shipped out. Tells how much fun she had here during the war. Talks about marriage patterns. She never married. Talks about what kind of interests she has now. She has been traveling and has been working at the WSU museum.
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Title | Perry, Mignon Oral History Interview, 1990 |
Interviewer | Amey, Anne |
Date | 1990-05-08 |
Description | 31 minute oral history with Mignon Perry, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She describes her childhood within the Mormon community in Logan, Utah and her family's support for her education. She talks about her experiences during the Great Depression and the effects of WWII on her friends and classmates. She explains how she obtained her PhD at Utah State, taught Home Economics at Washington State University, and then became the chair for the Clothing and Textiles Department. |
Subject | Teachers; Education; Domestic life |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman; North and Central America, United States, Utah, Cache County--Logan |
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 | ua220b06f37 |
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 | ua220b06f37_Abstract |
Full Text | Tape Summary Interview with Dr. Mignon Perry May 8, 1990 Side B 11 0-1 Born June 8, 1920. She is the third daughter. She was born in Rexburg, ID., then moved to Utah. Tells about parents. 1-11/2 Tells about what kind of jobs she and her sisters had. Tells how close she and her siblings were. 11/2-2-3 Talks about the Mormon Church, father was a Bishop for 18 years. Tells how close her extended family was as far as location. Talks about cousins and how they are all going to write a book together. 3-4 Talks about all of her education in Utah, College, working at Marshall Fields and getting her Masters. Then she tells about her time here at WSU, teaching and being chairperson of Clothing and Textiles Dept. 4-41/2 Tells about her friends when she was growing up and how much the church had to do with it. 41/2-43/4 Talks more about friends. How she matured early, and dating patterns within her group. 43/4-5 5-51/4 51/2-6 6-End Talks about high school class meeting every five years still, how she has kept in touch with her close friends from Utah. How the Depression affected her family and the town. Tells about wwrr and how the day before their college graduation all the boys in her class were shipped out. Tells how much fun she had here during the war. Talks about marriage patterns. She never married. Talks about what kind of interests she has now. She has been traveling and has been working at the WSU museum. |
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