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Interview with Joanne Emerick
Written interview with Joanne Emerick, recipient of the 1995 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award.
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Oral Hisort of Wilena Peterson
Kevin Abbott and Dave Webb
Transcript of interview with Wilena Peterson.
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Interview with Helen Truan
Lisa Gail Bartlett-Plante and Helen Haggard Truan
An interview with Helen Truan regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Violet Mai
Janet Joan Becker-Funk, Raeleen Kay McKinley-Reinhardt, and Violet Kraft Mai
An interview with Violet Mai regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Theraby Griswould
Kerry Bittel and Theraby Griswould
An interview with Theraby Griswould regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Florence Hill
Carmen A. Dietz and Florence Hanna Hill
An interview with Florence Hill regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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The Legend at Lincoln: A Historical Perspective of Laverne Lessor
Timothy J. Friess
Written interview with Laverne Lessor for Dr. Allan Miller
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Interview with Elsie Witt
Frank Jarmer and Elsie Crow Witt
An interview with Elsie Witt regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Thelma Dumler
Lee A. Keffer and Thelma Jean Schwien Dumler
An interview with Thelma Dumler regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Elsie Lawrence
Angela Lea Lawrence and Elsie Doris Lawrence
An interview with Elsie Lawrence regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
This collection features oral history interviews focusing on one-room schoolhouses in rural Kansas. The last one-room schoolhouse teacher in Kansas, Selola Lewis, is included in this collection. She taught at the Dermot School in Morton county until the final one-room school closed in 1992. Students from the Fort Hays State University College of Education conducted the interviews of former students and teachers who attended and taught in one-room schoolhouses. Interviews were conducted as part of an effort to develop a significant collection of oral resources that would supplement other primary and secondary local history materials residing in the Plymouth Schoolhouse Archival Collection in Forsyth Library and the Plymouth Schoolhouse building located on the FHSU Campus. Interviews were originally recorded on cassette tapes and then transferred to digital media. The files have been edited to improve the user experience through enhanced sound quality and time management. No voice content has been removed or altered. Raw files of the original interviews along with supplemental materials like teacher biographies and district histories are available upon request.
The primary source materials contained in the Fort Hays State University Special Collections
and Archives have been placed there for research purposes, preservation of the historical
record, and as reflections of a past belonging to all members of society. Because this material
reflects the expressions of an ongoing culture, some items in the collections may be sensitive in
nature and may not represent the attitudes, beliefs, or ideas of their creators, persons named in
the collections, or the position of Fort Hays State University.
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