[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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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)
Format:	Electronic Audio Software
Language:	English
Subjects:	Lay, Eileen > Interviews. Lay, Eileen > Friends and associates. Since 1945 Teachers, Foreign > Japan > Interviews. Teaching > Japan. Friendship. Manners and customs. Teachers, Foreign. Teaching. Japan > Social life and customs > 1945- Japan. Oral histories. Interviews.
Genre:	Interviews. Oral histories.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 audio file (39 min., 10 sec.))
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)