Agi Plenk, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Lorille Miller and Stan Larson

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Title Agi Plenk, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Lorille Miller and Stan Larson
Alternative Title No.295, Agi Plenk
Creator Plenk, Agnes M.
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center; Miller, Lorille Horne; Larson, Stan
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1989-08-31
Collection Number and Name ACCN 0814 Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project
Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv48007
Access Rights I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah.
Date Digital 2014-10-27
Spatial Coverage Hungary, http://sws.geonames.org/719819/ ; Austria, http://sws.geonames.org/2782113/ ; Yugoslavia, http://sws.geonames.org/7500737/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Plenk, Agnes M.--Interviews; Child psychologists--Utah
Description Transcript (33 pages) of interview by Lorille Miller and Stan with Agi Plenk, on August 31, 1989. This interview is no. 295 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape no. U-1050
Abstract Agi Plenk (b. 1916) recalls her early life--being born in Hungary, living as a child in Yugoslavia, then moving to Austria where at age 11 she joined the Socialist Youth Movement. She describes her schooling, meeting Henry Plenk, leaving Europe under strained circumstances in the late 1930s and finally moving to Utah in the 1940s where Henry would be at the University of Utah Medical School as a radiologist 1940s-1980s. Agi Plenk worked as a child psychologist, eventually taking a Ph.D. in Psychology and establishing the Children's Center for children with special mental health needs. Interviewers: Lorille Miller, Stan Larson
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Scanning Technician Matt Wilkinson
ARK ark:/87278/s6sn1xd4
Topic Child psychologists
Setname uum_elc
ID 832276
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sn1xd4