Wallace, Marie 2016-04-20
This interview features Marie Wallace as she discusses her career with the Soil Conservation Service in Texas. In this interview, Wallace describes how she got her position with SCS and how she met her husband. She then goes on to explain her husband’s service in World War II and the stories he would tell about it. Wallace then details what it was like working as the secretary to the state conservationist, and her involvement with the retirement meet-ups
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Interviewee Name: Marie Wallace
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Date: April 20, 2016
Location: New Braunfels, Texas
Interviewer: Monte Monroe
Length: 01:38:52
Abstract
Introduction and background information, Moving to Washington D.C. for a job, Transferring to the Soil Conservation Service and Pearl Harbor, Clerk stenographer work, women working at that time, Her husband’s service and other World War II veterans, Marrying her husband and working with him in SCS, Becoming secretary to the state conservationist, Transitioning to learning, using new technology, career challenges, Growing up during the Depression and going to the SCS reunions, The generational change in work
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