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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2022.018.001 |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Blankenship, Janice J. Dobson |
Object Name |
Recording |
Date |
11/05/2021 |
Digital Link |
Click here to listen to recording. |
Scope & Content |
Recording of an oral history interview featuring Janice J. Dobson Blankenship conducted at the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum by museum volunteer Lorretta Bertalot on November 5, 2021. The audio track is 35:53 in length. Blankenship highlights her childhood in India as the parents of Presbyterian missionaries. She also speaks concerning her career as an educator in Tulsa and Broken Arrow, OK. 00:00 - introduction 00:45 - ancestry and family 04:24 - boarding school (Woodstock School) 14:30 - history of India and its religion 16:00 - misisonary furlough in Princeton, NJ 17:10 - travels in foreign countries 18:00 - return to United States 20:45 - college education and employment 22:10 - marriage and career 28:25 - volunteer work 32:20 - Indian language and dialects |
Search Terms |
Arrowhead Elementary School boarding schools Burroughs Elementary Burroughs Little School Project Central High School Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation DAZE desegregation First Presbyterian Church Francis Scott Key Elementary School India Mark Twain Elementary School missionaries Northeastern State University oral history interviews Presbyterians Princeton, NJ Saint Francis Hospital & Saint Francis Health System Teachers Tulsa City-County Library University of Tulsa volunteers & volunteer work Woodstock School |
People |
Bertalot, Lorretta Blankenship, Duane Blankenship, Janice J. Dobson Dobson, Andrew Silas Newton |