[Interview of Hazel Christenson on her teaching life at the U.S. Army base in post-war Germany and Lansing, MI].

Hazel Christenson recalls her childhood and youth in Minnesota, becoming a teacher in 1929, and coming to Lansing, MI in 1945 to teach in the Lansing school district. Christenson explains why she later accepted an overseas teaching position in Germany, saying that she wanted to see the places she ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Christenson, Hazel, 1911-2008 (Interviewee)
Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Christenson, Hazel, > 1911-2008 > Interviews.
Christenson, Hazel, > 1911-2008 > Childhood and youth.
Teachers > Interviews.
Military post schools, American > Germany > Bremerhaven.
Teaching > Germany > Bremerhaven.
Teachers, Foreign > Employment.
Teaching > Michigan > Lansing.
Germany > Social conditions > 1945-1955.
Military post schools, American.
Social conditions.
Teachers.
Teaching.
Germany.
Germany > Bremerhaven.
Michigan > Lansing.
1945-1955
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (27 min., 4 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software
Description
Summary:
Hazel Christenson recalls her childhood and youth in Minnesota, becoming a teacher in 1929, and coming to Lansing, MI in 1945 to teach in the Lansing school district. Christenson explains why she later accepted an overseas teaching position in Germany, saying that she wanted to see the places she had read about all of her life and her family's native Sweden. She describes her teaching duties at the U.S. Army base in Bremerhaven, her quarters, sanitary conditions, her pay, opportunities to socialize with U.S. Army officers and the devastation of post-war Germany. She also talks about coming back to the U.S. in 1952, the rough passage, and returning to her teaching position in Lansing. Christenson is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher who shares some of her memories as she talks with Christenson.
Note:Title supplied.
Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Digitized by the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library of the Michigan State University Libraries.
Call Number:DB32687 cassette
Voice 32687
Playing Time:00:27:04
Participant or Performer:
Interviewee, Hazel Christenson ; interviewer, Elsie Hornbacher.
Event Details:
Recorded 1984 July 24