| Title |
Barbara Greenlee Toomer, West Valley City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, February 25, 2006: Saving the legacy tape no. 756 |
| Alternative Title |
Barbara Greenlee Toomer, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Toomer, Barbara Greenlee, 1929- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2006-02-25 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Toomer, Barbara Greenlee, 1929- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; United States--Army Nurse Corps |
| Keywords |
Girl Scouts; Nurses; Polio; Activists |
| Description |
Transcript (43 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Barbara Toomer on February 25, 2006. This is from tape number 756 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Barbara Toomer (b. 1929) was born in Pasadena, California. She received her RN in 1952 from St. Joseph's College of Nursing in San Francisco, California. She joined the Army in 1953 and took basic training at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. She served at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, until her discharge in 1955. She contracted polio in 1956 and has been confined to a wheelchair since that time. She is a successful activist, petitioning for the rights of the disabled. 43 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
43 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/s6j985pn |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Army Nurse Corps |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022466 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j985pn |
| Title |
Page 3 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022424 |
| OCR Text |
Show THI I AN INTERVIEW WITH BARBARA GREENLEE TOOMER 0 FEBRUARY 25, 2006. THE INTERVIEWER IS BECKY B. LLOYD. THI I THE PROJECT" AVING THE LEGACY: AN ORAL HI TORY OF UTAH' WORLD WAR II VETERANS." TAPE No. 756 BEC: This is an interview with Barbara Toomer at her home in West Valley City Utah. Today's date is February 25 , 2006. This is part of the "Saving the Legacy Project". My name is Becky Lloyd. Matthew LaPlante, a journalist with The Salt Lake Tribune and his photographer, Al, are also with us today. Barbara, let's start with when and where you were born. BAR: Pasadena, California, on August 26, 1929. BEC: What was your family doing in California at the time? What was your father 's employment? BAR: I have no idea. He was a realtor for a long, long time. So I assume that's what he was doing. But I really have never asked. BEC: Had your family been in California very long? BAR: Not really. My father was born in New York. My mother was born in New Prague, Minnesota. No, my father was born in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. For some reason, I don't know why, he came west. But I know that my mother came west to escape a boyfriend, which is why a lot of us do a lot of things (laughs). So she came west to California to live with these women that she knew from Fort Dodge, Iowa, where she had also lived. But how my father and mother met, I have no idea. BEC: Obviously, she escaped one boyfriend and found another. BAR: Right. BEC: It seems to work that way doesn't it? |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j985pn/1022424 |
