Barbara P. Jacobsen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, July 11, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 465

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BARBARA P. JACOB EN J 11 2002 to another chool. But my fir t cou in, Charle Stephen and another fri nd M 1 H r h who had gone to Utah State came over and they said, "Oh, Barbara, you know, it' the greate t chool. You really hould go." Then my i ter in law, the one who had taught me in third grade for a short time-- Her name was Virginia. She had gone to Utah State. She had completed only two years. That's all they needed in Idaho to teach elementary school. So she was very encouraging. I knew Walter Welti sho was in the mu ic department. He was Bob Welti's father. [Editor 's note: Bob Welti was a long time weatherman for local Salt Lake television stations.] She said she had taken voice lessons from him. She said, "Here's your chance to take voice lessons." So she encouraged me. We went to Logan and she introduced me to Professor Welti and I did take voice lessons. I was sixteen when I graduated from high school. The following June, I turned seventeen. I was very young, and it was a new experience going to Logan. The farthest I'd traveled had been Yellowstone Park and Salt Lake. I liked Logan. I loved college. I participated in everything. I waited until I was a junior to join a sorority, Theta Epsilon. But the first two years, I was in intramurals. I was in all the music productions that they had. College was just wonderful for me. WIN: So you really enjoyed college. BAR: I did. WIN: Let's see. So if you started college in '39, the US entered the war in '41, you would have been a junior or at the start of your junior year. What did you think on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? BAR: It was a horrible experience. How can I explain? Right after Pearl Harbor, the military came in and took over part of our campus. We all were trying to be patriotic. We presented programs. We went to Brigham City to entertain the military there. Of 11