| Title |
Marjorie Campbell, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 13, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 563 |
| Alternative Title |
Marjorie Campbell, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Campbell, Marjorie, 1924- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-05-13 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States; Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States |
| Subject |
Campbell, Marjorie, 1924- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; Veterans--Utah--Biography; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service in the U.S. Naval Reserve; WAVES; Selective Service; Commissary; Annapolis; Bureau of Land Management |
| Description |
Transcript (21 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Marjorie Campbell on May 13, 200. This is from tape number 563 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Marjorie Campbell (b. 1924) discusses her family history and growing up in Laketown, Utah, before moving to Salt Lake City, where she graduated from South High. She recounts her experiences working at Fort Douglas before joining the Navy (WAVES) in 1944. She trained in Brooklyn before being assigned to the commissary at Annapolis. She was discharged in 1944, and talks about her marriage, the death of her husband, and raising her four children while working for the Selective Service and the the Bureau of Land Management. 21 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
21 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s69g7m24 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1017410 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69g7m24 |
| Title |
Page 4 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1017390 |
| OCR Text |
Show W 11 at fir t h and th n h n h m t It involved in politics. Oh I cant rem mb r actly hat hi ftl i - h th I think of the Senate for the state of Utah. His pictur i in th tat it 1. take all the school children up to see it why my grandchildren al ay lik t h r their great-grandpa is (laughs). It's kind of fun. BEC: Well, Nebeker is a well-known name around here I think. MAR: Well, there are a lot ofNebekers lawyers but they all came from the same family, back in Pennsylvania, which is interesting, on my father s side. My father's mother side is also from pioneer stock because she's a Haight. Her father was Isaac Haight and as you read the history books, you read a lot about him. BEC: Interesting. Quite a heritage. MAR: Well, when you live in Utah-when you're young you don't pay too much attention to it. Then when you get older, it means a lot to you. In the old days, because I'm so old now, I remember living in a log cabin on an Indian reservation. I remember no telephones, no radios, no indoor plumbing, all these things that we take so much for granted today, that was not part of my childhood. So I do appreciate everything we have now. BEC: When were you living in a log house on an Indian reservation? Was that when you were a small girl? In Rich County? MAR: No. Families don't always get along and there were five brothers trying to run the ranch together and my father, he was never a fighter so he decided to go out on his own. And he homesteaded in the Uintah Basin, which was a very bad move because the Uintah Basin was just an Indian reservation for the Ute Indians. And that's when we lived 3 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69g7m24/1017390 |
