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Lorraine Miller Hist 398, Prof. Armitage Tape Summary Side I 0-2 2-4 4-16 16-18 18-23.5 23.5-27 27-30 End Side I Where her parents were born; when her father emigrated to US; when her father and mother married and moved to California. Her parents settling in Anaheim; father trying to start a business. She was born 13 years after they married. Tells about her first day in Catholic school Talked a lot about Catholic school; bright kid but average student. Her mother exposed her to art and music; piano and violin lessons. Said how she felt alone as a child (being an only child); wished her mother was more involved in her school (mom didn't go to PTA) Wasn't affected by the Great Depression; lifestyle didn't change drastically Remembers W.W.II, father's sisters and nephews lived in occupied Austria; sent them 11Care packages'': food, clothing, soap. Received letters from them with blacked out sentences (government opened and censored all mail) Tells how Anaheim was a patriotic town, esp. during the war. Mostly remembers small two-lane roads, trees and agriculture; orange groves are now tracks of homes "Downtown 11 Anaheim didn't have malls, only small shops; her frrst job as sales clerk at S.H. Kress, dime store. Loved waiting on people Side II 0-6 6-10 10-12 12-19 19-22.5 22.5-23 23-25 25-26 26-27 27-30 End Side II Tells how male and female roles were more defmed; she wanted to be a wife and mother; played with dolls; "Mrs. Scott" was her pretend name, her "husband" in the war. Father built a playhouse. Remembers gas rationing in W.W.II, couldn't buy anything without rationing stamps. Mother was a creative cook, substituted rationed ingredients. Everyone became frugal. Her Aunt & Uncle also migrated from Wisconsin & Minnesota Met her future husband after high school. Story about them meeting in summer school; both had to take Chern. class over. Started dating at 18. Dated Frank Karcher, but married Clifford 4 years later Married in 1955. Parents had to give permission (under 21); bought first house shortly after. Parents didn't want them to buy a home: scared for them. Dad teaching her how to drive on '36 Plymouth; the thrill of driving the frrst time. Lived simple life; liked to play cards growing up. Often visited Aunts and Uncles; Uncle Ben made her handmade toys. Story of their first cross-country trip back to Wisconsin; Barbara got to drive part way. Mother was good at art; taught her ceramics, drawing and painting; Anaheim city park for ceramics classes in summer. Relationship with parents was good; she felt that they spoiled her. Told about her married life. It was a happy one. They liked to go to movies, visit friends, go camping and to baseball games. Story about going camping after Tommy was born, wailing "I MISS TOMMY" the whole time. Barbara later told me more about her married life. She spent much of married life caring for her children while her husband worked full time. Having eight kids, Barbara was constantly preparing lunches, changing diapers and washing school clothes. She was very involved in her children's lives while they were in school. She even became den mother for her sons' Cub Scout troop. When her last child entered school, she decided to enter the work force. Her frrst job was as a volunteer in the women's center at Goldenwest College in Huntington Beach, CA. She later got a job at McDonalds where she worked under one of her sons, who was the day manager there. She went on to work at an Insurance company as a secretary. After "retiring" for awhile, she returned to work in 1988, at the County of Orange children's services department, where she continues to work today. She also stays active in her church community and loves spending time with her grandchildren (she has seven). Her happiest memories are when her children were born, when they went on their cross-country drives with all the kids, and when she and her husband spent their 35th anniversary at Disneyland.
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Title | Miller, Barbara Marie Kern Oral History Interview, 1994 |
Interviewer | Miller, Lorraine |
Date | 1994-05-01 |
Description | 32 minute oral history with Barbara Miller, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. She talks about her early childhood and how important religion was to her family. Barbara attended a Catholic parochial school and she explains that her experiences with the nuns in the Catholic school were what shaped her ideas about the world around her and affected the choices she made in life. She describes wanting to be a wife and mother as a small girl, and explains how that was the way most girls in her group felt. She married her husband Clifford in 1954, birthed, and raised eight children as a stay-at-home-mother. She describes being very involved in her children's lives and, after her last child entered school, Barbara's reentering the work force. She explains that she eventually ended up at the Orange County Children Services department. She talks about the many changes that she has seen in Anaheim over the years. Barbara says that she has watched the intrusion of pollution, smog, two-lane roads converted to six-lane freeways, and over population during her lifetime in Southern California. |
Subject | Housewives; Working mothers; Economic & social conditions |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--California--Orange County--Anaheim |
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 | ua220b12f83 |
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 | ua220b12f83_Abstract |
Full Text | Lorraine Miller Hist 398, Prof. Armitage Tape Summary Side I 0-2 2-4 4-16 16-18 18-23.5 23.5-27 27-30 End Side I Where her parents were born; when her father emigrated to US; when her father and mother married and moved to California. Her parents settling in Anaheim; father trying to start a business. She was born 13 years after they married. Tells about her first day in Catholic school Talked a lot about Catholic school; bright kid but average student. Her mother exposed her to art and music; piano and violin lessons. Said how she felt alone as a child (being an only child); wished her mother was more involved in her school (mom didn't go to PTA) Wasn't affected by the Great Depression; lifestyle didn't change drastically Remembers W.W.II, father's sisters and nephews lived in occupied Austria; sent them 11Care packages'': food, clothing, soap. Received letters from them with blacked out sentences (government opened and censored all mail) Tells how Anaheim was a patriotic town, esp. during the war. Mostly remembers small two-lane roads, trees and agriculture; orange groves are now tracks of homes "Downtown 11 Anaheim didn't have malls, only small shops; her frrst job as sales clerk at S.H. Kress, dime store. Loved waiting on people Side II 0-6 6-10 10-12 12-19 19-22.5 22.5-23 23-25 25-26 26-27 27-30 End Side II Tells how male and female roles were more defmed; she wanted to be a wife and mother; played with dolls; "Mrs. Scott" was her pretend name, her "husband" in the war. Father built a playhouse. Remembers gas rationing in W.W.II, couldn't buy anything without rationing stamps. Mother was a creative cook, substituted rationed ingredients. Everyone became frugal. Her Aunt & Uncle also migrated from Wisconsin & Minnesota Met her future husband after high school. Story about them meeting in summer school; both had to take Chern. class over. Started dating at 18. Dated Frank Karcher, but married Clifford 4 years later Married in 1955. Parents had to give permission (under 21); bought first house shortly after. Parents didn't want them to buy a home: scared for them. Dad teaching her how to drive on '36 Plymouth; the thrill of driving the frrst time. Lived simple life; liked to play cards growing up. Often visited Aunts and Uncles; Uncle Ben made her handmade toys. Story of their first cross-country trip back to Wisconsin; Barbara got to drive part way. Mother was good at art; taught her ceramics, drawing and painting; Anaheim city park for ceramics classes in summer. Relationship with parents was good; she felt that they spoiled her. Told about her married life. It was a happy one. They liked to go to movies, visit friends, go camping and to baseball games. Story about going camping after Tommy was born, wailing "I MISS TOMMY" the whole time. Barbara later told me more about her married life. She spent much of married life caring for her children while her husband worked full time. Having eight kids, Barbara was constantly preparing lunches, changing diapers and washing school clothes. She was very involved in her children's lives while they were in school. She even became den mother for her sons' Cub Scout troop. When her last child entered school, she decided to enter the work force. Her frrst job was as a volunteer in the women's center at Goldenwest College in Huntington Beach, CA. She later got a job at McDonalds where she worked under one of her sons, who was the day manager there. She went on to work at an Insurance company as a secretary. After "retiring" for awhile, she returned to work in 1988, at the County of Orange children's services department, where she continues to work today. She also stays active in her church community and loves spending time with her grandchildren (she has seven). Her happiest memories are when her children were born, when they went on their cross-country drives with all the kids, and when she and her husband spent their 35th anniversary at Disneyland. |
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