[Interview of Eileen Lay on her service as a teacher in occupied Japan from 1950 to 1953].

Eileen Lay talks about her service as a teacher in occupied Japan from 1950 to 1953. Lay describes traveling to Japan and conducting shipboard sing-a-longs with U.S. troops bound for the Korean War. She also talks about her daily life in Japan, surviving a typhoon, the classes she taught, her friend...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors: Lay, Eileen (Interviewee)
Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Interviewer)
Piatt, Jane, 1909-1997 (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Lay, Eileen > Interviews.
Lay, Eileen > Friends and associates.
Teachers, Foreign > Japan > Interviews.
Teaching > Japan.
Japan > Social life and customs > 1945-
Friendship.
Manners and customs.
Teachers, Foreign.
Teaching.
Japan.
Since 1945
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 (39 min., 10 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software

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