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Interviewee
Trabits, Mary E. September 14, 1996 

Call Number
95-015

Physical Description

37 pages, 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 85 minutes; index

Interviewer
Truesdell, Barbara

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Mary Trabits, born 1918, grew up on a farm in the Evansville Area before becoming a teacher. She speaks about teaching and the demands put on the youth of today, especially compared with earlier in her career. She discusses some details about the World War II era, such as the dances with soldiers in Kentucky, and the role of teachers in handing out the various rationing stamps. After retirement, she became interested in genealogy and discusses joining the Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, and other organizations that have kept her busy.

• Keywords
• • Corporation Names
  • Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century
  • Daughters of the American Revolution
• • Occupation Names
  • elementary school teacher
• • Place Names
  • Evansville, Indiana
  • Fort Campbell, Kentucky
• • Subjects
  • 1937 Flood
  • courtship
  • DAR Congress
  • farm life
  • genealogy
  • Great Depression
  • ration stamp books
  • recreational activities
  • teaching
  • World War II