| Title |
Kenneth W. Baldridge, Pleasant Grove, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 30, 2005: Saving the Legacy tape no. 723 |
| Alternative Title |
Kenneth W. Baldridge, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Baldridge, Kenneth W., 1926- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2005-04-30 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States |
| Subject |
Baldridge, Kenneth W., 1926- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American |
| Keywords |
Great Depression; Aircraft Warning System; Naval Reserve; V12; Signalmen |
| Description |
Transcript (39 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Kenneth W. Baldridge on April 30, 2005. From tape number 723 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Baldridge (b. 1926) was born in Modesto, California and describes growing up in the Depression. He joined the Aircraft Warning System of the Ground Observers Corps prior to enlisting in the Navy in December of 1943. He attended the College of the Pacific and University of California at Berkeley in the Naval ROTC program. He was sent to Great Lakes Naval Training Center for boot camp, then attended signal school. He was assigned to the USS Rendova, a CVE-114 based in San Diego as a training vessel. Discharged in 1946, Baldridge stayed in the reserves for eight years. His civilian career was as a professor of history. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 39 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
39 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/s6qr705h |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Naval--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027949 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr705h |
| Title |
Page 12 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1027921 |
| OCR Text |
Show KENNETH W. BALDRIDGE PRJL 0 20 Univer ity of hicago (1 92-1932), and the allege of the Pacific (1933--16). Durin hi career, he developed numerous basic tactics for the game (including the man in motion and the lateral pass), as well as some equipment. From 1947 to 195 he erved a an assistant coach under his son at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. In 1924, he served as a coach with the US. Olympic Track and Field team in Paris. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 19 51 and was the only individual honored in both areas until the 1 990s. Influential in other sports, he developed basketball as a jive-player sport and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959. A pitcher on his college baseball team, he declined an opportunity to play professional baseball but nonetheless impacted the game through his invention of the batting cage. Stagg died in Stockton, California, at 102 years old."] Anyway, he was the coach there. It was a second career. He'd been the coach at the University of Chicago, and retired and he was coaching at the University of the Pacific. The year before, in 1943, he was named coach of the year. He had two All-Americans on his team. I decided to go out for football. I'd played football at Ceres High and so I thought, "What the heck." His was a name to be reckoned with. The hardest thing was getting a letter (becoming a letterman), a block P, from him. He was very compassionate because I never played very much. They didn't have the depth chart like they do now, but I probably would have been ranked fourth-team quarterback. I did get into about four games, with a total of about fifteen minutes overall. BEC: You played quarterback? That was your position? KEN: Yes, but I never. . .I don't remember much about it. There I was at the ripe old age of seventeen. Well, I guess I'd turned eighteen by football season. I was in just for a 12 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr705h/1027921 |
