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Oral history interview with Mrs. Charles Hunter
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Hunter discusses living in Wisconsin, growing up and attending a rural school in Coon Valley and transferring to high school in La Crosse. She details her education leading to a 1938 teaching degre...
Hunter discusses living in Wisconsin, growing up and attending a rural school in Coon Valley and transferring to high school in La Crosse. She details her education leading to a 1938 teaching degree from Wisconsin State College in La Crosse, now the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse; practice teaching at the Model School; and her employment history and advanced teaching degrees. She also describes living in California.
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- Creator
- interviewed by Howard Fredricks
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- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1977
- Physical Details
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- 1 audiotape reel (approximately 90 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in. + 1 transcript (39 leaves ; 28 cm) + 2 audiocassettes +1 DVD-ROM (sound ; 4 3/4 in.)
- OCLC
- ocm45954478
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- Name index
- Norwegian ancestry, maternal grandfather C. M. Stafslien - Paternal grandparents, The Rundahls' family farm in Coon Valley, Wisconsin - Memories of education, grade school in North Ridge, Wisconsin - Grade school teachers; Lilly Dissmore, Alice Peterson, Irene Moen, Eva Haugen, and Helen Homstad, North Ridge, Wisconsin - Discipline problems at grade school - Importance of religion within family, Lutheranism - Going to La Crosse Central High School, working as a babysitter and living in an apartment with her sister, 1933-1936 - Keeping in touch with memorable teachers from La Crosse Central High School, Theodora Taras and Eva Murley - Experience during the Great Depression, 1929 - First Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) Camp (operated from 1933-1942) located in Coon Valley, 1933 - Going to La Crosse State Teachers College, 1936-1938 - Opinions of President George M. Snodgrass at La Crosse State Teachers College, 1927-1939 - Opinions of Alice Drake, Department of Teacher Education (taught 1931-1962) - Opinions of Clayton Whitney, Department of Geography (1915-1952) - Encounters with other faculty members at La Crosse State Teachers College, Thomas Annett (taught 1928-1962), Oren E. Frazee (taught 1920-1950), Renee M. Angell (taught 1912-1951), Edith Irish Wing (taught 1928-1961) - Teaching career after leaving La Crosse State Teachers College, 1936-1977 - Teaching at Valley View grade school, Paoli, Wisconsin, experiences in a rural school, 1936-1939 - Opinion on elimination of rural schools, unification of districts
Subjects
- Hunter, E. G.
- Wisconsin State College (La Crosse) -- Alumni and alumnae.
- Wisconsin State College (La Crosse). Model School.
- Education.
- Teaching.
- Rural schools -- Wisconsin.
- Coon Valley (Wis.) -- Social life and customs.
- La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs.
- California -- Social life and customs.