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Mary Jane Hodges-Vance, Oral History
No full textThis is a video recording of an oral history interview with Mary Jane Rita Hodges-Vance. It was conducted on May 25, 2007. The interviewer is Glenn Gainer.
In this interview, Mary Jane Rita Hodges-Vance discusses what life was like in the Philippines under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Mary Jane Vance was born on May 22, 1934 in Manilla, Philippines. Her father was Jesse Allen Hodges and her mother was Marie Angeles Gamero Hodges. She was one of nine children.
Japan invaded the Philippines in December 1941. Hodges-Vance was seven years old and in her third grade classroom when the attack occurred. She and her siblings were dismissed from school and they walked eight miles home.
Hodges-Vance\u27s father was imprisoned at an internment camp. Hodges-Vance and her siblings were allowed to live at home with their mother, but they had to speak Spanish and Tagalog in order to avoid being imprisoned. She recalls visiting her father in prison, but notes that as the war continued families were no longer allowed to visit the prisoners. Their family did not see her father for more than a year.
Following the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation, Hodges-Vance and her family emigrated to Quinlan, Texas. There, her grandfather had left her father a plot of land. Hodges-Vance graduated from high school as Valedictorian. In 1976 she received her doctorate from East Texas State University. She went on to have a career as an educator.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1004/thumbnail.jp
Joseph Vance portrait
No full textPhotograph of a painting of Joseph Vance (1786-1852), who served as the 12th governor of Ohio from 1836 to 1838
Oral History Interview: Walter Vance and Marion Vance
No full textIncludes a book, Thoughts in Verse, by Walter Vance. Walter Vance was born in Onego, West Virginia and in 1926 married Marion, a native of Virginia. In 1975, they were residing in Hamlin, West Virginia. Both are retired teachers. Mr. Vance has also written and published poetry. This interview is concerned primarily with reflections upon their many years of teaching in primary and secondary schools. From the turn of the century to 1972, the Vances discuss the effects of the Depression, rural education, school administration, and their college careers. Family background is mentioned and Mr. Vance recites and interprets some of his poetry. Mrs. Vance also discusses her years of teaching driver\u27s education.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1145/thumbnail.jp
Herald A. Vance Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview with Herald A. Vance by Norma Vance. Topics include: Biographical information such as date and place of birth, parents and siblings; Growing up in a large family on a farm in Milburn, UT; His pioneer heritage; Hand-made toys and self-entertainment; His father\u27s employment in farming and timber; The use of horses to pull farm equipment; His childhood home not having indoor plumbing until the 1950s; Everyday chores required to run the farm; How Milburn 7000 foot elevation affected the growing season; Participating work for milling timber with his family in C Canyon; Supplying lumber to Fairview and Milburn residents; How his mother baked ten loaves of bread every other day for the large family; Enjoying fishing, hunting, and roasting pine nuts; Attending school and church in the Milburn schoolhouse; Use of oil lamps; Mounting wagon on beds sled runners for snow packed roads; Finishing school in Fairview and Mt. Pleasant; Effects of the Great Depression; His father\u27s declining health and subsequent death when Herald was fifteen years old; His mother selling the mountain property after his father\u27s death; Not being able to participate in sports because of required farm work; Enjoying country western music; Learning to play the guitar; Trapping bobcats, coyotes, and weasels for the bounty and selling pelts for extra money; Assisting in tearing down the old school house and reusing supplies to help construct a church building in Milburn; Receiving a draft deferment for WWII as two of his older brothers were already serving in the U.S. Army and his mother was a widow and need help with the farm; His brother Ellis being captured and spending twenty-three months as a German POW; His own Army service in Japan the year after the War ended; Meeting his future wife; Courtship and marriage; His wife\u27s Native American heritage; Raising their family of five children in Orem, UT; His work in finish carpentry, installing Formica, linoleum, carpet and various sales jobs; Selling encyclopedia sets door-to-door for Sears Roebuck; His service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS); Bidding on and winning the purchase of the old Milburn Ward Chapel that he helped build; Remodeling the church into an event center; Opening a flooring store in Miburn; The death of his youngest son in a car accident; Joining the Timpanogos Gem and Mineral Society and going on rockhounding field trips; Taking up silversmithing; Selling the event center and finding a home near Fairview.The oral history interview with Herald A. Vance, conducted by Norma Vance, highlights Herald Vance\u27s life as one shaped by hard work, community involvement, and family ties. It provides insight into his upbringing in a pioneer family, his military service, his family\u27s challenges, and his later work in carpentry, sales, and community activities. His story reflects the resilience and adaptability of those who lived through the Great Depression and World War II
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A letter and attached job announcement from Vance Simpson.
No full textA letter and attached job announcement from Vance Simpson, Applicant Services Coordinator for the Texas Youth Commission
Vance, N.D. Collection
No full textFile contains a typed article entitle ?Vance ? and other Junctions?, by Donn S. McLellan, in which he reminisces about a railroad trip he took alone as a 5 year-old boy, from Fargo, N.D. to his grandparents in Northwood, N.D. The story revolves around his memory of transferring trains at the small Vance junction station, and recalling the family circumstances surrounding it
James C. Furman to J.K. Vance
No full textA two page letter from James C. Furman to J.K. Vance, the Mayor of Greenville
Vance Randolph
No full textSketch of Randolph's head, signature of Rose O'Neill. On recto: Vance Randolph. On verso: U. of A. Randolph, Vance. LL.D., 1951.Vance Randolph (1892-1980) was a folklorist who collected, annotated, and published different folklore genres for over a thirty-year-period in the Ozark region. On May 5, 1951 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Arkansas, along with Edward Durell Stone--architect of the university's Fine Arts Center--and writer Bernie Babcock. The Fine Arts Center was dedicated on that same day
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A letter from Vance Simpson regarding various positions being open in the Texas Youth Commission.
No full textA letter from Vance Simpson regarding various positions being open in the Texas Youth Commission
Letter from Rufus Vance to President Boylan
No full textOne of many letters sent to President Boylan congratulating him on the occasion of his inauguration. This letter is from Rufus Vance, District Superintendent of the Department of Education
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