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Tape Summary Kathleen Maxwell Orr Porter Warnick 000--Introduction and date of interview 008--family history. Father from America, mother from Scotland, they met on a boat. Father came to Buhl, Idaho as a home missionary. Her mother came to Idaho eventually and they got married. 057--Born in 1922. Had two older sisters. 064--Size of Buhl, "I think they about claimed 1,200.'' But there were many small farms around. 072--Family's place in the community. Orchardist (about 60 acres) and occasionally her father would fill in as minister. 090--Description of house she grew up in. Two stories, four bedrooms but the three girls shared a room most of the time. 2 136--Family time together. "Well, we did quite a bit of work together." Such as, cutting asparagus, picking strawberries sorting/selling apples, picking cherries, etc. 150--Family meals together. Mother sat on one end (nearest the kitchen), father sat on other, girls sat in the middle. Father served the food. 174--Holidays and vacations together. Every summer they would try to get away to go camping for a few days, but it was hard to get away. Had a number of day trips: Shoshone Falls, City of Rocks, Balanced Rock ••• 206--Role of religion. Father Presbyterian mother nothing. Family said grace. 220--School. Buhl had several schools. Her classes had about 30 kids in each. Half grades because of so many one room school houses around town. Mother very concerned with her daughters school work. Kathleen best in class skipped part of fifth grade. 287--Parents attitudes towards education. Very supportive, it was a given that all three girls would go to college. "There was never any suggestion that we couldn't do something because we were girls." Went into nursing, teaching, and food and nutrition. 306--Childhood companions. Families lived nearby with three children, played together quite often. 324--Activities. It was never suggested they should go out for athletics. She was in debate, her sister was in a play and in the glee club. 337--Teenage life. Not very much social activity outside of school, distance problem. Not any dating, "Dates! What are t hey?!" Her only date was a girl ask boy dance. She was a year younger then her classmates. 362--Discipline. Got spanked and sent to room by which ever parent was arouad . Not very much disagreeing with parents. Parents were fair. 374--Clothing . Homemade, hand-me-downs from sisters. Depres sion . Mother sewed and later the girls. 386--Hair s t~le s. Straight and fairly short. 3 389--Depression. Lived on farm, so they had enough food. They could sell produce to local grocery store for credit so they could buy sugar, fl our , etc . Also sold eggs and cream. 43 2--Expectations of f uture . Expected to go to college, get job (maybe ) and get .married. 442--After graduation from University of I daho s he went to University of Wisconsin t o work on her masters . 447- -Met John Por ter Apri l .1st, got engaged Ap r ~l 10th, and was married i n J une . Be was killed a year later. 458--After John was killed she and Jack (their son) moved back t o Idaho t o l ive wi t h her parents._ She s ubstitute teached ~ Buhl then l ater taught . She didn't have a teaching certi f icate but they needed a teacher desperately She taught phys ics and hi story. 480--Kids weren't very interested in school at this point in histor y . It was before Sputnik and teaching physics was especially frustrating and challeng i ng. 492--Meeting J ohn Por ter . She worked i n a caf eteria where a navai radiO school was taught (W.W.II ). Got good food to eat for free. They i ntroduced her to this vet student. She doesn' t remember being proposed t o . 535--Baby . Before John was killed they lived in a garage made i nto an apartment. ()Qe r oom , not very big. 557--John was killed in a car wreck . Three vets had gone to a conference and on the wa:y home a drunk driver swerved over the l ine and hit them . He was 29 or 30, she was 24. 567--She i mmedi ately moved back t o Idaho. She buried him in Kansas where he wanted t o be laid to rest. 580--Had strong family support. She even felt useless, she knew that if she died , Jack would s till be wel l taken care of. 586 -~Meefing of second h usband. Up at U of I, introduced by mutual friends. She had moved up to Moscow to take a job t h~t had been offer ed to her i n t he Home Economics de·part ment. 620--Terrible storm in Idaho in which she, her parents, and Jack had to make it home from the train station. 660- -When she first moved to Mq.scow, J ack stayed in Southern Idaho with nis grandpa rents. He came up near end of March . 672--Being a single mother. Discouraging, "I never really seem to f i t into any one g r oup .u 687--Bad babysitter. She left Jack one day in the sandbox one day because she wanted to go shopping and Jack wanted to play. 704--The next babysitter introduced her to Cal Warnick. 708--Courted for a long time, Cal was L.D.S. and she wasn 't. Courted f or three years, they finally agreed t o di ffer. Similar to her mother and father ; 726--Got remarried and she was "never again gainfully employed outside the home, " she "always object to people s aying, do you work?'' She doesn't regret her decision. 730--Social l ife and activities after chi ldren . W~nt square danci ng, played pinochle, Cal busy with boy scouts, they were never very social. 743--Volunteer work. Active i n League of Women Voters and state school funding study. Bec;;a use of her wor k on these she didn't miss working outside the home . Ca_l encouraged her vo~unteer work. She would s ometimes be gone for three or four days at a t ime on business trips . 772--Typical d~y. They would al l have bre ak£ast together , then the boys would go off to school. She wou1d go to several clubs throughout the week and she was always doing handwork and cooking (cooki es). 786--Life after children were gone. They left gradually enough t h a t t here wasn't ever a feeling of "empty nest." .. Not r ea~ly a problem . Also likes having Jack live in Mo sGow. 814--Activities now . Busy with costume c ol1ection , Latah County Histor:i,cal Society, and church committees. Very a ctive, around her ~orne t oo with hand wor k and wri t ing a book about lace maki ng. "Of course , homemakers never do retire." 834--Enj oy traveling now . To see chi l dren around the country and nex t fall to New Zealand . 885--Most happy time o f life . Doesn' t r ea~ly have one , she is very happy now and she has enj oyed her whole life. 899--Grea t est achievement. Her five sons. 903--Cha ngi ng r ole of women. More fie l ds open t o women , when she was in college a male engineering student paid her comp1iment , "You would make a good e ngi neering secretary, it didn 't oc€ur to him that I could be an engin~e r. 932--Pressure on women. More fi elds open to women , harder to decide on career e tc. 946--Western woman. Growing up in new t own , no old f amilies versus new f amilies. Nobody was born there e xcept for children , no strong so cia~ classes. Also, the s imple geography , what i s west to her is east t o a lot o f people ( ie . Chicago). 4
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Title | Warnick, Kathleen Maxwell Orr Porter Oral History Interview, 1992 |
Interviewer | Porter, Jennifer |
Date | 1992-05-05 |
Description | 56 minute oral history with Kathleen Warnick, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She talks about her early childhood and growing up on an orchard in sourthern Idaho. She specifically describes holiday meals and activities with her family. After the death of her first husband, she returned home and became a history and civics teacher, then moved on to teach at the University of Idaho. After marrying her second husband, she describes her life as a homemaker and mother of five boys in the Moscow community. |
Subject | Farm life; Employment; Working mothers; |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Twin Falls County--Buhl; North and Central America--United States--Idaho--Latah County--Moscow |
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 | ua220b09f65 |
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 |
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Title | ua220b09f65_Abstract |
Full Text | Tape Summary Kathleen Maxwell Orr Porter Warnick 000--Introduction and date of interview 008--family history. Father from America, mother from Scotland, they met on a boat. Father came to Buhl, Idaho as a home missionary. Her mother came to Idaho eventually and they got married. 057--Born in 1922. Had two older sisters. 064--Size of Buhl, "I think they about claimed 1,200.'' But there were many small farms around. 072--Family's place in the community. Orchardist (about 60 acres) and occasionally her father would fill in as minister. 090--Description of house she grew up in. Two stories, four bedrooms but the three girls shared a room most of the time. 2 136--Family time together. "Well, we did quite a bit of work together." Such as, cutting asparagus, picking strawberries sorting/selling apples, picking cherries, etc. 150--Family meals together. Mother sat on one end (nearest the kitchen), father sat on other, girls sat in the middle. Father served the food. 174--Holidays and vacations together. Every summer they would try to get away to go camping for a few days, but it was hard to get away. Had a number of day trips: Shoshone Falls, City of Rocks, Balanced Rock ••• 206--Role of religion. Father Presbyterian mother nothing. Family said grace. 220--School. Buhl had several schools. Her classes had about 30 kids in each. Half grades because of so many one room school houses around town. Mother very concerned with her daughters school work. Kathleen best in class skipped part of fifth grade. 287--Parents attitudes towards education. Very supportive, it was a given that all three girls would go to college. "There was never any suggestion that we couldn't do something because we were girls." Went into nursing, teaching, and food and nutrition. 306--Childhood companions. Families lived nearby with three children, played together quite often. 324--Activities. It was never suggested they should go out for athletics. She was in debate, her sister was in a play and in the glee club. 337--Teenage life. Not very much social activity outside of school, distance problem. Not any dating, "Dates! What are t hey?!" Her only date was a girl ask boy dance. She was a year younger then her classmates. 362--Discipline. Got spanked and sent to room by which ever parent was arouad . Not very much disagreeing with parents. Parents were fair. 374--Clothing . Homemade, hand-me-downs from sisters. Depres sion . Mother sewed and later the girls. 386--Hair s t~le s. Straight and fairly short. 3 389--Depression. Lived on farm, so they had enough food. They could sell produce to local grocery store for credit so they could buy sugar, fl our , etc . Also sold eggs and cream. 43 2--Expectations of f uture . Expected to go to college, get job (maybe ) and get .married. 442--After graduation from University of I daho s he went to University of Wisconsin t o work on her masters . 447- -Met John Por ter Apri l .1st, got engaged Ap r ~l 10th, and was married i n J une . Be was killed a year later. 458--After John was killed she and Jack (their son) moved back t o Idaho t o l ive wi t h her parents._ She s ubstitute teached ~ Buhl then l ater taught . She didn't have a teaching certi f icate but they needed a teacher desperately She taught phys ics and hi story. 480--Kids weren't very interested in school at this point in histor y . It was before Sputnik and teaching physics was especially frustrating and challeng i ng. 492--Meeting J ohn Por ter . She worked i n a caf eteria where a navai radiO school was taught (W.W.II ). Got good food to eat for free. They i ntroduced her to this vet student. She doesn' t remember being proposed t o . 535--Baby . Before John was killed they lived in a garage made i nto an apartment. ()Qe r oom , not very big. 557--John was killed in a car wreck . Three vets had gone to a conference and on the wa:y home a drunk driver swerved over the l ine and hit them . He was 29 or 30, she was 24. 567--She i mmedi ately moved back t o Idaho. She buried him in Kansas where he wanted t o be laid to rest. 580--Had strong family support. She even felt useless, she knew that if she died , Jack would s till be wel l taken care of. 586 -~Meefing of second h usband. Up at U of I, introduced by mutual friends. She had moved up to Moscow to take a job t h~t had been offer ed to her i n t he Home Economics de·part ment. 620--Terrible storm in Idaho in which she, her parents, and Jack had to make it home from the train station. 660- -When she first moved to Mq.scow, J ack stayed in Southern Idaho with nis grandpa rents. He came up near end of March . 672--Being a single mother. Discouraging, "I never really seem to f i t into any one g r oup .u 687--Bad babysitter. She left Jack one day in the sandbox one day because she wanted to go shopping and Jack wanted to play. 704--The next babysitter introduced her to Cal Warnick. 708--Courted for a long time, Cal was L.D.S. and she wasn 't. Courted f or three years, they finally agreed t o di ffer. Similar to her mother and father ; 726--Got remarried and she was "never again gainfully employed outside the home, " she "always object to people s aying, do you work?'' She doesn't regret her decision. 730--Social l ife and activities after chi ldren . W~nt square danci ng, played pinochle, Cal busy with boy scouts, they were never very social. 743--Volunteer work. Active i n League of Women Voters and state school funding study. Bec;;a use of her wor k on these she didn't miss working outside the home . Ca_l encouraged her vo~unteer work. She would s ometimes be gone for three or four days at a t ime on business trips . 772--Typical d~y. They would al l have bre ak£ast together , then the boys would go off to school. She wou1d go to several clubs throughout the week and she was always doing handwork and cooking (cooki es). 786--Life after children were gone. They left gradually enough t h a t t here wasn't ever a feeling of "empty nest." .. Not r ea~ly a problem . Also likes having Jack live in Mo sGow. 814--Activities now . Busy with costume c ol1ection , Latah County Histor:i,cal Society, and church committees. Very a ctive, around her ~orne t oo with hand wor k and wri t ing a book about lace maki ng. "Of course , homemakers never do retire." 834--Enj oy traveling now . To see chi l dren around the country and nex t fall to New Zealand . 885--Most happy time o f life . Doesn' t r ea~ly have one , she is very happy now and she has enj oyed her whole life. 899--Grea t est achievement. Her five sons. 903--Cha ngi ng r ole of women. More fie l ds open t o women , when she was in college a male engineering student paid her comp1iment , "You would make a good e ngi neering secretary, it didn 't oc€ur to him that I could be an engin~e r. 932--Pressure on women. More fi elds open to women , harder to decide on career e tc. 946--Western woman. Growing up in new t own , no old f amilies versus new f amilies. Nobody was born there e xcept for children , no strong so cia~ classes. Also, the s imple geography , what i s west to her is east t o a lot o f people ( ie . Chicago). 4 |
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