| Title |
Virginia Kristic, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, February 10, 2003: Saving the legacy tape no. 629 |
| Alternative Title |
Virginia Kristic, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Kristic, Virginia, 1922-2008 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2003-02-10 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States; Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana |
| Subject |
Kristic, Virginia, 1922-2008--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; United States--Naval Reserve--Women's Reserve |
| Keywords |
WAVEs |
| Description |
Transcript (29 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Virginia Kristic on February 10, 2003. This is from tape number 629 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Kristic (b. 1922) recalls her childhood in Butte, Montana, and her marriage to her fiance of six months the day before he was shipped overseas. She joined the WAVES and went to boot camp at Hunter College in the Bronx. She was stationed in Seattle, where she served as a storekeeper from 1942 to 1945. 29 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
29 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/s67100p0 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025387 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67100p0 |
| Title |
Page 15 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1025371 |
| OCR Text |
Show VIR INIA KRI TIC FEBR R 10 200 VIR: B cau e I had done retail work, they sent me to storekeeper . My friend Mari n I think she had one year of university and she was in typing and things like that so they sent her to storekeeping too. They were supposed to give us a year's training in I think, a month. So we were in school a lot. Of course, we learned about all the different ships, so that we could identify them and a lot about the Navy. The bad thing was that in so many of their classes, they were showing us these things on video (film). We'd go in to watch the video (film) after getting up at five in the morning and we slept through it (laughs). I can remember that so much. My friend Marion, I'd look at her and she was sleeping more than I was (laughs). But it was a wonderful education. It really was. All the different things. BEC: So it really was a month? You were there a month or was it longer? VIR: At least a month. We were trying to remember and we didn't remember, but it was supposed to be a year's training. Then, you got your first-! forget what you call it now, when you have the badge on-anyway, we got our third-class badge when we graduated from there. See, if you hadn't gone to one (specialized school), I don't know when you'd get your third-class. BEC: So that was a good promotion there? VIR: That's right. That's right. When I got out of the service, I had three (promotions) and I was up for chief, but then I got pregnant (laughs). That's not in order of what we're talking about, because that happened later. BEC: We'll remember to talk about that when we come to it. VIR: One of the girls, who was in the barracks with us, got married in Bloomington. We went to her wedding. It was nice. 14 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67100p0/1025371 |
