| 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 10 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1022431 |
| OCR Text |
Show BRBRA RE L F BR T 0 R R 25 2006 tim the war start d I would have been thirteen and I grew up during it becau wh n the war ended, I was fifteen or sixteen. BEC: Yes, that's right. Okay, so you just took it in stride. BAR: Yes, I just took it in stride. That was what we did. BEC: So, you graduated from high school in 194 7? BAR: 1947. BEC: Then what did you do? BAR: I went to Santa Monica Junior College. I spent a year there, which was kind of interesting. BEC: Tell me about that. BAR: I'd been in a Catholic School and now I was in this big mix of wonderful people. There were returned people from the military. It was really an exciting time. It was very good for someone who was my age. It was a great time. Of course, I went there with the attitude-! don't think the school fostered it, but we fostered it-that we knew more than anybody else and that was why we were super-special. It was a special school and all that sort of stuff. We were convinced that we were wonderful. I had a very dear friend. She and I had been in the Girl Scout Mariners together. Oh, I did the Girl Scout bit, too. BEC: Did you? BAR: Yes, I forgot to tell you about that. BEC: Yes, you should say something here about that. BAR: Well, that was ... well, let me tell you about Jean Hagenbuch first. So I got in this history class that Jean told me to go into. We were there and the teacher had us write a book report. I said, "Oh, I don't even have a book to read." She said, "Oh, don't worry 9 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j985pn/1022431 |
