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Katie Carrothers 10594456 Hist 398 3-31-05 Side One: 0-1 'h: 2-5: 5-9: 9-15: 15-18: 18-22: 22-29: 29-32: 32-33: Tape Index Introduction March 15th 2005. Interview ofFrancene Joyce Pauly Bennett, interviewed by granddaughter Katie Carrothers. Francene was born on July 31 8 \ 1926 in Walla Walla, WA. Lived in College Place until she was eight years old with her parents and older sister, Maxine. 1934 moved to Walla Walla to live in grandmothers home while she was in Germany visiting relatives. Grade school made Robin Hood puppet for a play. Activities were piano and dancing lessons. One of her girlfriends and her tap danced for the PTA meetings, her mother was the PTA president. She was also in Camp Fire and at camp she and her friend saw a bear. She also went to Sunday school. In third grade had a terrible ear infection missed several months of school. There were no antibiotics at this time and classmates sent cards and pictures to her. Her mother tutored her while she was at home. Grade School days were during the Depression. She remembers men coming to their back door asking to do work in exchange for something to eat, her mother always fed them and never asked them to do any work. No hot lunches in school, so her mother and other mothers started having soup for lunch. They gathered meat and vegetables from local farmers who donated these items. The moms hired a lady to make and serve the lunch everyday. The girl that was the Valedictorian was so poor that her mother made her dresses out of string. Only had a radio (TV had not been invented yet) 33-37: 37-42: 42-47: 47-51: 51-52: 52-58: 58-63: 63-66: 66-83: 83-90: Her grandmother visited Europe and Syria for one year. Her family lived in her house while she was gone, when she returned she asked them to stay living with her since she was ill. This grandmother was not the "grandmother" type, very formal unlike her other grandmother who had 36 grandchildren. During the summer in Walla Walla, her grandmother would pay her and her sister to dig up dandelions in her yard every Saturday. Both her and her sister would get paid for doing this; however her older sister Maxine got ten cents a day while Francene got five cents a day. She would use the money to buy penny candy. Francene had to practice tap dance on the cement in the driveway, was not allowed to tap dance in the house. Moved back to College Place during her freshman year of high school. Had to ride the bus to Walia Walla High School. December of sophomore year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. entered WWII. During WWII, the U.S. Government rationed sugar, meat, and gas. Each family was given a certain amount of coupons each month for those three items. Francene and her friend wanted fudge so badly that they used all of her mothers' sugar to make fudge. Her family did not have any sugar for the next three weeks, but the fudge was worth it. Dances, Proms, and Graduations were all held in their high school gym. Mentions her junior and senior year activities/clubs she was involved in. Worked two months during every summer from age 16 until she got married at Libby's Cannery. During WWII, worked 12 hours a day and six days a week. There were German soldiers that were prisoners of war that worked in the warehouse for two summers. During the war, movie stars would come in the summer to promote War Bonds. The Airmen of the Walla Walla Air Base would give a fifteen minute ride in their jeep for the people who bought bonds. Francene and her friend bought one so they could get a ride, they thoroughly enjoyed their time. 90-99: 99-104: 104-119: 119-130: 130-137: 137-140: 140-144: 144-150: 150-153: 153-164: 164-168: 168-174: Shirley Temple came one summer. Francene and her friend were able to see her up close. Only worked two summers in Libby's warehouse, and then worked in the personnel office. June 1944 graduated from high school and that fall attended Washington State College. College during WWII, few boys on campus, every Saturday had to roll bandages for the soldiers. Due to the gas rationing, the college asked the students to only go home twice a year. Next year attended Eastern Washington College ofEducation. Very active on campus, still belongs to Tawanka Alumni. Met her husband, Vern Bennett at Eastern. They met in the fall of 1946, got engaged the fall of 1947. They married in August of 1948 in Walla Walla. Both Vern and she graduated from Eastern in 1948. Vern began teaching in the Valley for two years, and then got a job in Spokane. Taught grade school, middle school, and then history at Rogers high school. He taught for 33 years before he retired. Francene taught only 18 years because she stayed home to raise her two children. Francene taught four years and then had her son, Randy who is now a PhD Professor at Gonzaga University. Three years later had her daughter Melody who is now teaching eighth grade Social Studies in Spokane. When she was seven months pregnant with Randy her fourth grade students gave her a baby shower. Women could only teach and be pregnant at six months, but they needed the money so she said that she would be just six months in June when school got out instead of seven months. She was able to finish out the school year. When she had Randy she was in the hospital for five days. Randy graduated Suma Cum Lade from WSU with a BA and Masters degree in Economics. Doctorate from Michigan State, he is married and has two step sons. Melody born three years later. 174-183: 183-186: 186-190: 190-192: 192-194: 194-197: 197-199: 199-228: 228-243: 243-265: 265-280: 280-311: 311-322: 322-333: 333-338: Throughout the school years Melody was very active in the school. She graduated from Eastern with a BA in fashion merchandise in 1977. Married in 1982. First grandchild, Katie was born in 1984, second grandchild (her brother) Bennett (Ben) born in 1987. Melody and her husband divorced in 1988 when the kids were little. She went back to Whitworth College to get her teaching and Masters Degree. Has been teaching and raising her two children ever since. Francene attends all of her grandchildren's activities. In her day, was not acceptable for men and women to live together or to have sex before marriage- times have changed. Happiest times in childhood were when her parents, sister and she went to the Worlds Fair in San Francisco in 1939. When she grew up her happiest times were when she got married, had children and grandchildren. Gives background about her husband, Vern Bennett. He was born on September 20th 1920 and passed away in September 1997. During WWII he was in the submarine service, he was a Fire Control Man 1st Class (the one who launched the torpedoes). He served on three subs and his subs sank 21 Japanese ships. Provides background information about her father Morton Pauly. Provides background information about her mother Clara Miller Pauly. Provides background information about her grandfather on her mother's side, Alfred Miller. Provides background information about her grandfather on her father's side. 2003 Walla Walla had a rededication ceremony of Pioneer Park. The relatives of the city council members were recognized. Francene, her two children and her two grandchildren took part in the ceremony. Mentions when her father was growing up his parents had a Chinaman as their cook. 1907-1908 her grandfather Pauly was a state senator for Washington. 338-367: 367-371: During the summers while Francene was in grade school she and her sister would spend a week with their grandmother on her farm near Newport, W A. Two other cousins out of 36 would also be there. She always enjoyed the week she spent with her grandmother. Several cousins and their families still get together every summer and have a cousin's reunion. They have done this for many years and will have one this summer of2005.
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Title | Bennett, Francene Oral History Interview, 2005 |
Interviewer | Carrothers, Katie |
Date | 2005-04-30 |
Description | 34 minute oral history with Francene Bennett, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). She talks about her early childhood in Walla Walla, Washington during Depression and World War II. She worked in a cannery during World War II. She received her teaching degree from Eastern Washington College and was married in 1948. She and her husband raised their two children and settled in Spokane, Washington. |
Subject | Economic & social conditions; Education; Working mothers |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Walla Walla County--Walla Walla; 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 | ua262b07f76 |
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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Full Text | Katie Carrothers 10594456 Hist 398 3-31-05 Side One: 0-1 'h: 2-5: 5-9: 9-15: 15-18: 18-22: 22-29: 29-32: 32-33: Tape Index Introduction March 15th 2005. Interview ofFrancene Joyce Pauly Bennett, interviewed by granddaughter Katie Carrothers. Francene was born on July 31 8 \ 1926 in Walla Walla, WA. Lived in College Place until she was eight years old with her parents and older sister, Maxine. 1934 moved to Walla Walla to live in grandmothers home while she was in Germany visiting relatives. Grade school made Robin Hood puppet for a play. Activities were piano and dancing lessons. One of her girlfriends and her tap danced for the PTA meetings, her mother was the PTA president. She was also in Camp Fire and at camp she and her friend saw a bear. She also went to Sunday school. In third grade had a terrible ear infection missed several months of school. There were no antibiotics at this time and classmates sent cards and pictures to her. Her mother tutored her while she was at home. Grade School days were during the Depression. She remembers men coming to their back door asking to do work in exchange for something to eat, her mother always fed them and never asked them to do any work. No hot lunches in school, so her mother and other mothers started having soup for lunch. They gathered meat and vegetables from local farmers who donated these items. The moms hired a lady to make and serve the lunch everyday. The girl that was the Valedictorian was so poor that her mother made her dresses out of string. Only had a radio (TV had not been invented yet) 33-37: 37-42: 42-47: 47-51: 51-52: 52-58: 58-63: 63-66: 66-83: 83-90: Her grandmother visited Europe and Syria for one year. Her family lived in her house while she was gone, when she returned she asked them to stay living with her since she was ill. This grandmother was not the "grandmother" type, very formal unlike her other grandmother who had 36 grandchildren. During the summer in Walla Walla, her grandmother would pay her and her sister to dig up dandelions in her yard every Saturday. Both her and her sister would get paid for doing this; however her older sister Maxine got ten cents a day while Francene got five cents a day. She would use the money to buy penny candy. Francene had to practice tap dance on the cement in the driveway, was not allowed to tap dance in the house. Moved back to College Place during her freshman year of high school. Had to ride the bus to Walia Walla High School. December of sophomore year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. entered WWII. During WWII, the U.S. Government rationed sugar, meat, and gas. Each family was given a certain amount of coupons each month for those three items. Francene and her friend wanted fudge so badly that they used all of her mothers' sugar to make fudge. Her family did not have any sugar for the next three weeks, but the fudge was worth it. Dances, Proms, and Graduations were all held in their high school gym. Mentions her junior and senior year activities/clubs she was involved in. Worked two months during every summer from age 16 until she got married at Libby's Cannery. During WWII, worked 12 hours a day and six days a week. There were German soldiers that were prisoners of war that worked in the warehouse for two summers. During the war, movie stars would come in the summer to promote War Bonds. The Airmen of the Walla Walla Air Base would give a fifteen minute ride in their jeep for the people who bought bonds. Francene and her friend bought one so they could get a ride, they thoroughly enjoyed their time. 90-99: 99-104: 104-119: 119-130: 130-137: 137-140: 140-144: 144-150: 150-153: 153-164: 164-168: 168-174: Shirley Temple came one summer. Francene and her friend were able to see her up close. Only worked two summers in Libby's warehouse, and then worked in the personnel office. June 1944 graduated from high school and that fall attended Washington State College. College during WWII, few boys on campus, every Saturday had to roll bandages for the soldiers. Due to the gas rationing, the college asked the students to only go home twice a year. Next year attended Eastern Washington College ofEducation. Very active on campus, still belongs to Tawanka Alumni. Met her husband, Vern Bennett at Eastern. They met in the fall of 1946, got engaged the fall of 1947. They married in August of 1948 in Walla Walla. Both Vern and she graduated from Eastern in 1948. Vern began teaching in the Valley for two years, and then got a job in Spokane. Taught grade school, middle school, and then history at Rogers high school. He taught for 33 years before he retired. Francene taught only 18 years because she stayed home to raise her two children. Francene taught four years and then had her son, Randy who is now a PhD Professor at Gonzaga University. Three years later had her daughter Melody who is now teaching eighth grade Social Studies in Spokane. When she was seven months pregnant with Randy her fourth grade students gave her a baby shower. Women could only teach and be pregnant at six months, but they needed the money so she said that she would be just six months in June when school got out instead of seven months. She was able to finish out the school year. When she had Randy she was in the hospital for five days. Randy graduated Suma Cum Lade from WSU with a BA and Masters degree in Economics. Doctorate from Michigan State, he is married and has two step sons. Melody born three years later. 174-183: 183-186: 186-190: 190-192: 192-194: 194-197: 197-199: 199-228: 228-243: 243-265: 265-280: 280-311: 311-322: 322-333: 333-338: Throughout the school years Melody was very active in the school. She graduated from Eastern with a BA in fashion merchandise in 1977. Married in 1982. First grandchild, Katie was born in 1984, second grandchild (her brother) Bennett (Ben) born in 1987. Melody and her husband divorced in 1988 when the kids were little. She went back to Whitworth College to get her teaching and Masters Degree. Has been teaching and raising her two children ever since. Francene attends all of her grandchildren's activities. In her day, was not acceptable for men and women to live together or to have sex before marriage- times have changed. Happiest times in childhood were when her parents, sister and she went to the Worlds Fair in San Francisco in 1939. When she grew up her happiest times were when she got married, had children and grandchildren. Gives background about her husband, Vern Bennett. He was born on September 20th 1920 and passed away in September 1997. During WWII he was in the submarine service, he was a Fire Control Man 1st Class (the one who launched the torpedoes). He served on three subs and his subs sank 21 Japanese ships. Provides background information about her father Morton Pauly. Provides background information about her mother Clara Miller Pauly. Provides background information about her grandfather on her mother's side, Alfred Miller. Provides background information about her grandfather on her father's side. 2003 Walla Walla had a rededication ceremony of Pioneer Park. The relatives of the city council members were recognized. Francene, her two children and her two grandchildren took part in the ceremony. Mentions when her father was growing up his parents had a Chinaman as their cook. 1907-1908 her grandfather Pauly was a state senator for Washington. 338-367: 367-371: During the summers while Francene was in grade school she and her sister would spend a week with their grandmother on her farm near Newport, W A. Two other cousins out of 36 would also be there. She always enjoyed the week she spent with her grandmother. Several cousins and their families still get together every summer and have a cousin's reunion. They have done this for many years and will have one this summer of2005. |
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