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Cecilia Nordstrom Van Winkle March 27, 1994 Spokane, Washington Interviewed by Celena Kathan (Granddaughter) 0-3 3-4 4-5.5 5.5-6 6-8.5 8.5-9.5 9.5-10 10-11.5 11.5-12 12-15 15-16 16-16.5 16.5-19 Tape Summary, Side One: Family background-Grandfather came from Ireland. Grandmother came from Germany and they married in Nebraska then moved to Birkenfeld to homestead in the 1880's. Father married Mother and bought the farm from her dad. Living on a farm-Born in 1914. School was fun-place to see friends. "Recess was great". Chores done. A typical day-After chores there was a big meal. 4-H-When 10 years old was in a pig club. Looked forward to the County fair. Got a Union Pacific 4- H Scholarship to go to college. Life on a farm-After eighth grade went to a high school in Birkenfeld. There was only one teacher and 28 students. Work on the farm. Fourth of July. How they got ice cream. Christmas-The School Program. Fun things-Sewing and making things. Sundays would visit a friend, play cards and talk in the old style crank telephone. Saturday nights were family dances. Going to town-Loved the variety store. How she earned some spending money. Doing things with her brothers and sister-Story about brother Francis and her getting the cows across the river. 19-22.5 School life at the Vesper school. 2.5-23.5 Fire-Dreaded fire. Story about the chimney and roof burning. Used milk buckets to put out the fire. Still worry about fire. 23.5-25.5 Depression-They were not hurt too much. Mother got 18¢ a dozen for eggs at the grocery store. 25.5-30 30-30.5 Foods-Had a huge garden. Ate potatoes day. Father caught salmon and salted. soak the salmon over night then cooked sauce. Churned butter by hand. House Work. two times a Mother would with a cream 30.5-33.5 Fun in high school-Played basketball with the town women. The town women usually won. Parties at home with snacks and cards. Sold magazines to raise money for the school. Could get 12 issues for a dollar. 33.5-35 35-36.5 Dating-Some dated, but most went in groups to parties. College-Was fun but worked a lot. First year and half stayed with family like a housekeeper. 36.5-38.5 sundays. 38.5-39 Spring time on the farm. 39-43.5 College-Studied a lot because high school was small and did not offer many courses. General life at college. 43.5-44.5 Getting to and from college-Was a chore. Either rode a bus then hitched a ride with the milkman or if the telephones were working, then call her brother. He was not happy. 44.5-45 After graduation-Taught history, English, and Home Economics at various high schools. End of Side One Cecilia Nordstrom Van Winkle March 27, 1994 0-2 2-2.5 2.5-4.5 4.5-5.5 5.5-7.5 Tape Summary, Side Two: Teaching and Home Economics-each year the teacher's salary went up one hundred dollars. With small schools, teachers had to teach more types of classes. Marriage-After six years of teaching, got married. Current events-Heard about the Depression but not feel it. No T.V. but radio was popular way to get news. Followed Lindberg and Amelia Earhart in the newspapers. Aviation, first astronaut and first man on the moon, Hindenburg. Start of World War II-She remembers the day. Was teaching in California. A local newspaper put of a flier in the restaurant saying "Japan bombs Pearl Harbor!" How WW II changed her life-Fiance (Alfred Van Winkle) and she had decided to get married but Army would not give him time off so they married in California, not her home town. 7.5-8.5 Married life. 8.5-16.5 War rationing-Canned food shoes, rubber products (no rubber bands), metal products, fabric, wool. Had to sign up for nylons after war because factories were not making enough. Spam was developed and she liked that. 16.5-17 War movies. 17-17.5 Big band music-"I loved it." 17.5-18.5 Met Alfred Van Winkle-He came to one of her school dances and they went out for six years. 18.5-22 22-22.5 Wedding-He made all of the arrangements. Her mom and dad came from Oregon to California. Got married on a Sunday at St. Mary's Church. He bought a cake and took it to the hotel room. Ate dinner at a restaurant. Differences between her and her mom, Mary. 22.5-24.5 Mom's (Mary) life-No school until age thirteen so taught herself to read. Age twenty, went to Astoria to get teacher's certification and teach. 24.5-25.5 Story about Mom traveling sidesaddle and getting scared by a bear. 25.5-26 26-27 27-28.5 28.5-30 30-31.5 31.5-33 33-35 35-37 37-41 41-43 43-45 Mom and Dad (Andrew) meeting. Story about Dad catching the largest fish of the year, 76 pound salmon. The differences between her and her daughters. More activities and job opportunities available. Health advances-The TB test, more care for people, welfare, schools for the handicapped. "What do you want to be when you grow up?"-Wanted to be a P.E. teacher or an acrobat or a seamstress and dress like the models. Maybe a dress designer. Was common for women to be teachers or stenographers. Story about who weighed more her Mother or Grandmother. Weighed each other on the stilyard scale in the barn. Electricity on the farm-Getting electricity for lights, electric toaster and iron. Inventions-Steam iron was on her wedding list, electric mixer. Electric stove was important because not have to heat whole house to get a cup of hot water. Story about the horses running away. Father was hauling a borrowed grinder from neighbor and a motorcycle scared the horses. They bolted and her father fell off and hurt his shoulder. Was four when it happened and was one of the scariest things she remembers. Farm horses. Family car-Bought a Overlin (?) the time of World War I. There is a picture of her on the running board at her house. End of Side Two
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Title | Van Winkle, Cecilia Nordstrom Oral History Interview, 1994 |
Interviewer | Kathan, Celena N. |
Date | 1994-05-05 |
Description | 93 minute oral history with Cecilia Van Winkle, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. Cecilia describes her early childhood and life on her family's farm in Birkenfield, Oregon. She talks about her school experiences, the chores she did around the house, and spending time with her friends. After graduating high school, Cecilia attended Oregon State College and graduated in 1937 with a degree in Home Economics and Education. She began teaching and met her husband at a school function. Cecilia describes the moment she heard about Pearl Harbor, and talks about the rationing during the war. In 1943, she married Alfred Van Winkle in Stockton, California, while he was on leave from the Army. Eventually, they returned to the Pacific Northwest and had six children. They finally moved to Spokane, Washington and Cecilia quit teaching to raise the children. She talks about how involved she was in her children's lives. |
Subject | Housewives; Farm life; Teachers; Education |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Oregon--Clatsop County--Birkenfield; North and Central America--United States--California--San Joaquin County; Stockton; North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Spokane County--Spokane |
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 | ua220b12f87 |
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 | ua220b12f87_Abstract |
Full Text | Cecilia Nordstrom Van Winkle March 27, 1994 Spokane, Washington Interviewed by Celena Kathan (Granddaughter) 0-3 3-4 4-5.5 5.5-6 6-8.5 8.5-9.5 9.5-10 10-11.5 11.5-12 12-15 15-16 16-16.5 16.5-19 Tape Summary, Side One: Family background-Grandfather came from Ireland. Grandmother came from Germany and they married in Nebraska then moved to Birkenfeld to homestead in the 1880's. Father married Mother and bought the farm from her dad. Living on a farm-Born in 1914. School was fun-place to see friends. "Recess was great". Chores done. A typical day-After chores there was a big meal. 4-H-When 10 years old was in a pig club. Looked forward to the County fair. Got a Union Pacific 4- H Scholarship to go to college. Life on a farm-After eighth grade went to a high school in Birkenfeld. There was only one teacher and 28 students. Work on the farm. Fourth of July. How they got ice cream. Christmas-The School Program. Fun things-Sewing and making things. Sundays would visit a friend, play cards and talk in the old style crank telephone. Saturday nights were family dances. Going to town-Loved the variety store. How she earned some spending money. Doing things with her brothers and sister-Story about brother Francis and her getting the cows across the river. 19-22.5 School life at the Vesper school. 2.5-23.5 Fire-Dreaded fire. Story about the chimney and roof burning. Used milk buckets to put out the fire. Still worry about fire. 23.5-25.5 Depression-They were not hurt too much. Mother got 18¢ a dozen for eggs at the grocery store. 25.5-30 30-30.5 Foods-Had a huge garden. Ate potatoes day. Father caught salmon and salted. soak the salmon over night then cooked sauce. Churned butter by hand. House Work. two times a Mother would with a cream 30.5-33.5 Fun in high school-Played basketball with the town women. The town women usually won. Parties at home with snacks and cards. Sold magazines to raise money for the school. Could get 12 issues for a dollar. 33.5-35 35-36.5 Dating-Some dated, but most went in groups to parties. College-Was fun but worked a lot. First year and half stayed with family like a housekeeper. 36.5-38.5 sundays. 38.5-39 Spring time on the farm. 39-43.5 College-Studied a lot because high school was small and did not offer many courses. General life at college. 43.5-44.5 Getting to and from college-Was a chore. Either rode a bus then hitched a ride with the milkman or if the telephones were working, then call her brother. He was not happy. 44.5-45 After graduation-Taught history, English, and Home Economics at various high schools. End of Side One Cecilia Nordstrom Van Winkle March 27, 1994 0-2 2-2.5 2.5-4.5 4.5-5.5 5.5-7.5 Tape Summary, Side Two: Teaching and Home Economics-each year the teacher's salary went up one hundred dollars. With small schools, teachers had to teach more types of classes. Marriage-After six years of teaching, got married. Current events-Heard about the Depression but not feel it. No T.V. but radio was popular way to get news. Followed Lindberg and Amelia Earhart in the newspapers. Aviation, first astronaut and first man on the moon, Hindenburg. Start of World War II-She remembers the day. Was teaching in California. A local newspaper put of a flier in the restaurant saying "Japan bombs Pearl Harbor!" How WW II changed her life-Fiance (Alfred Van Winkle) and she had decided to get married but Army would not give him time off so they married in California, not her home town. 7.5-8.5 Married life. 8.5-16.5 War rationing-Canned food shoes, rubber products (no rubber bands), metal products, fabric, wool. Had to sign up for nylons after war because factories were not making enough. Spam was developed and she liked that. 16.5-17 War movies. 17-17.5 Big band music-"I loved it." 17.5-18.5 Met Alfred Van Winkle-He came to one of her school dances and they went out for six years. 18.5-22 22-22.5 Wedding-He made all of the arrangements. Her mom and dad came from Oregon to California. Got married on a Sunday at St. Mary's Church. He bought a cake and took it to the hotel room. Ate dinner at a restaurant. Differences between her and her mom, Mary. 22.5-24.5 Mom's (Mary) life-No school until age thirteen so taught herself to read. Age twenty, went to Astoria to get teacher's certification and teach. 24.5-25.5 Story about Mom traveling sidesaddle and getting scared by a bear. 25.5-26 26-27 27-28.5 28.5-30 30-31.5 31.5-33 33-35 35-37 37-41 41-43 43-45 Mom and Dad (Andrew) meeting. Story about Dad catching the largest fish of the year, 76 pound salmon. The differences between her and her daughters. More activities and job opportunities available. Health advances-The TB test, more care for people, welfare, schools for the handicapped. "What do you want to be when you grow up?"-Wanted to be a P.E. teacher or an acrobat or a seamstress and dress like the models. Maybe a dress designer. Was common for women to be teachers or stenographers. Story about who weighed more her Mother or Grandmother. Weighed each other on the stilyard scale in the barn. Electricity on the farm-Getting electricity for lights, electric toaster and iron. Inventions-Steam iron was on her wedding list, electric mixer. Electric stove was important because not have to heat whole house to get a cup of hot water. Story about the horses running away. Father was hauling a borrowed grinder from neighbor and a motorcycle scared the horses. They bolted and her father fell off and hurt his shoulder. Was four when it happened and was one of the scariest things she remembers. Farm horses. Family car-Bought a Overlin (?) the time of World War I. There is a picture of her on the running board at her house. End of Side Two |
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