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Tape Summary Joanne K. White Irish Tape One, Side One: + Introduction + Birth, place of birth + Description of Spokane when she was growing up, what the kids were like + Description of school, school days + WWII stories + Rationing + Canada trips + Kids who lost relatives + Dad sold car, gas rationing + College years + Pledged Alpha Chi Omega • Had taken college prep courses in high school + Description of student body, campus, activities + Field of study + Tuition/room and board + Football games and precious WSUbeanie + Trip to East Coast after graduation Tape One, Side Two + More college stuff + TUB + Study tables + Book Brigade + Rules and regulations + Not adults until 21 + Vocation after school + Engagement + Marriage + Almost an old maid + Motherhood • Five kids + Discipline + Unwed mothers + Way to have babies secretly + Helped around house in exchange for free room and board + Divorce + Single motherhood + Working full time + Kids help with chores-story of corning home to find chores not done + Birth Control + Had 4 diaphragm babies + Careless Tape Two, Side One + Birth Control Cont. + Pill + Abortion + Story of friend who had an abortion + Life in General + Seem to remember good times, not bad + Overall pretty happy life + Relish good times + Life is summits and valleys + Detroit trip and culture shock-1954
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Title | Irish, Joanne Oral History Interview, 2003 |
Interviewer | Brown, Kelly |
Date | 2003-04-22 |
Description | 79 minute oral history with Joanne Irish, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). Her family moved to the west when she was two and she describes her early childhood growing up as an only child in Spokane, Washington. She discusses her experiences during World War II and talks about rationing and the difficulties the community endured. She attended Washington State College after high school and pledged Alpha Chi Omega sorority. After graduation, she describes going on a trip, with her parents, to the east coast; she talks about her first flight in an airplane, and being aware of racial diversity and segregation for the first time. She married and raised five children. She divorced and went back into work force to support her children. |
Subject | City & town life; Education; Economic & social conditions; Unmarried mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Nebraska--County--Omaha; 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 | ua262b06f59 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.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. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua262b06f59_Abstract |
Full Text | Tape Summary Joanne K. White Irish Tape One, Side One: + Introduction + Birth, place of birth + Description of Spokane when she was growing up, what the kids were like + Description of school, school days + WWII stories + Rationing + Canada trips + Kids who lost relatives + Dad sold car, gas rationing + College years + Pledged Alpha Chi Omega • Had taken college prep courses in high school + Description of student body, campus, activities + Field of study + Tuition/room and board + Football games and precious WSUbeanie + Trip to East Coast after graduation Tape One, Side Two + More college stuff + TUB + Study tables + Book Brigade + Rules and regulations + Not adults until 21 + Vocation after school + Engagement + Marriage + Almost an old maid + Motherhood • Five kids + Discipline + Unwed mothers + Way to have babies secretly + Helped around house in exchange for free room and board + Divorce + Single motherhood + Working full time + Kids help with chores-story of corning home to find chores not done + Birth Control + Had 4 diaphragm babies + Careless Tape Two, Side One + Birth Control Cont. + Pill + Abortion + Story of friend who had an abortion + Life in General + Seem to remember good times, not bad + Overall pretty happy life + Relish good times + Life is summits and valleys + Detroit trip and culture shock-1954 |
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