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Clara Rust is interviewed by Mike Dalton about the Pioneer Women of Alaska and the queen and king regents from 1934-1973 in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1974 [sound recording].
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Clara Rust is interviewed by Mike Dalton about the Pioneer Women of Alaska and the queen and king regents from 1934-1973 in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1974 [sound recording].
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10 sound tape reels (60 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
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The Copyright to these interviews has been transferred from the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. To listen to the interview, click the link at the bottom of this record. Please contact UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu <mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu> to discuss using the whole or part of this recording in another work or ordering a copy for personal use. A small fee may be charged to defray labor and postage charges. Any copies of recordings used in any other material must attribute the work to the Tanana-Yukon Historical Society and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.
The Copyright to these interviews has been transferred from the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo Nos. 4 & 8 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. To listen to the interview, click the link at the bottom of this record. Please contact UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu to discuss using the whole or part of this recording in another work or ordering a copy for personal use. A small fee may be charged to defray labor and postage charges. Any copies of recordings used in any other material must attribute the work to the Pioneers of Alaska Igloo Nos. 4 & 8 and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.
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Recorded in 1974 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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ORAL HISTORY 78-40-01. Clara talks about the history of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Igloo no. 3, first organizational meeting in 1916, Fairbanks, A.R. Heilig, T.T. Ray, first elected officials, Anna P. Caskey, Mrs. Ed Hering, adopting a constitution and by-laws, Yukon Watershed, Bertha Patterson, Mrs. Charles Johnson, Agnes Hering, Mary Gould, Lydia Protzman, Helen Protzman, Mrs. O.C. Williams, ceasing affiliation with the grand lodge in 1924, creating their meeting hall, Delia Dunham, Genevieve Parker, Mrs. Jack Sullivan, George Bachner, Maude Nielson, Alice Hanley, the 1954 membership, Adrianna Coyle, Anna Creamer, Alice Hanley, Emma McKinnon, Dorothy Loftus, Amante Tonseth Hanson, Kristina L. Stewart, Mary Miller, Agnes Thomas, Ebba Mayben, Genevieve Parker, Maria Morgan, Fannie Joyce, Louis Carston, Mary Schoeser, Dorothy Green, Clara Rust, Bertha C. Moody, Margaret Bell, Annie Nerland, Amanta Hanson, Charlotte Cuban, Nora Sutherland, Suzanne Taylor, Grace Hard, Helen Bockman, Ruby Clark, Cora Wier, Agnes Wanamaker, Mary Rapp, Leona Foster, Mattie Stroecker, Mabel Moore, Elsa McGee, Elizabeth O'Connor, Isabel Stanford, Joan Vernetti, selling their meeting hall in 1953, and funding a student loan account from the proceeds of the sale of their meeting hall at the University of Alaska.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-02. Mike reads the list of the Pioneer Women of Alaska present at the Pedro monument rededication ceremony in 1973, Adriana Coyle, Clara Rust, Dawson, Amante Hanson, Dorothy Loftus, other surviving Pioneer Woman of Alaska, Agnes Thomas, Helen Carlyle, Minnie Brewis, Fannie Joyce, Louis Carstens, Charlotte Cuban, Margaret Murie, Mildred Murilin, Mary Joyce, Henrietta Durrie, Lucy Bailey, Mary Miller Furan, Albina Miller, Daphne Moody Harris, Eva McGown, honorary members, Louisa Black,and Mrs. Warren G. Harding. Clara talks about the reason for having king and queen regents, the 1934 queen Catherine van Curler and king William Craigie, the 1935 queen Minnie Creamer and king Peter Dyser, the 1936 queen Eleanor Robinson and king Ole Fisher, the 1937 queen Mary Miller and king Jack Buckley, the 1938 queen Delia Dunham and king J.H. Groves, the 1939 queen Alice Hanley and king Luke Colbert, the 1940 queen Jessie Beermark and king John Quinbow, the 1941 queen Stacia Rickert and king Jack Burlington, not having carnivals or special events between 1942 and 1945, the army presence during WWII, how the Pioneers of Alaska auxiliary started electing the queen and king in 1947, how they started alternating elections between the Pioneers of Alaska auxiliary and Pioneer Women of Alaska, the 1946 queen Genevieve Parker and king Otto Neilson, the 1947 queen Blanche Cascaden and king Henry Apell, Charlie Mayse, and how E.B. Collins defended Blanche Cascaden on charges by Sam O. White of illegal possession of furs.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-03. Clara talks about the 1948 queen Minnie Brewis and king R.C. Rothenberg, Barb Lindberg, Gladys Sams, Henry Brewis, the 1949 queen, Laura O'Flanigan and king, Emil Van Raes, the 1950 queen, Barbara Weiner and king, John Vick, the 1951 queen, Adrianna Coyle and king, James Barrick, the 1952 queen, Stella Hering and king, Ed Crawford, the 1953 queen, Dorothy King and king, Frank Young, Sr., the 1954 queen, Nugget Garrity Hudson and king, Robert McCannon, the 1955 queen, Agnes Thomas and king, Bobby Sheldon, the 1956 queen, Helen Husack and king, Gus Conrad, the 1957 queen Ruby Clark and king, Shorty Wallace, Dick Callahan, the 1958 queen Clara Rust and king, E.B. Collins, the 1959 queen, Anna Creamer and king, Peter Steiger, and Olga Steiger.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-04. Clara talks about the 1960 queen and king, Sarah and Ira Purkeypile, Norma Purkeypile Taos, the 1961 queen. Joan Vernetti and king, Lewis Johnson, the 1962 queen, Eva McGown and king, Ed Ferrell, Rebecca Ferrell, the 1963 queen, Helen Carlyle and king, Irving Reed, the 1964 queen, Muriel Hering-Johnson and king, Harry Avikoff, the 1965 queen Amanta Hanson, and king, Willie Seguin, the 1966 queen, Mary Agbaba and king, Alan Humphreys, the 1967 queen, Adrianna Coyle and king, Dave Adler, the 1968 queen, Eleanor Reed and king, Sig Wold, Betty Wold, the 1969 queen, Mary Bojanich and king, Mike Kovac, the 1970 queen Millie Rothenberg and king, Sam O. White, the 1971 queen, Grace Harkness and king, William Schaeffer, Linda Schaeffer, the 1972 queen and king, Mary and Adolph Stock, and the 1973 queen, Lena Phipps and king, Jack Linck.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-05. Mike reads from the record book of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Louis J. Buzby, Mary Bayless, Bilva Brian Bayless, Grover and Electa Bayless, Nettie Baatz, Minnie Brewis, Wilhelmina C. Bentley, Harry Bentley, Cliff Bergman, Jessie Bjerremark, Cora Hamilton Blondeau, Ethel M. Bennett, Leslie Bennett, Margaret Anna Brandt, Jenny "June" Kitchen Bean, Frank Bean, Theodore DePencier, Mrs. Harry Staycer, Circle City and Chena, Alaska, White Pass Trail, and the Chena River.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-06. Mike reads from the record book of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Lillian Louis Black, George Black, Kahte Burglin, Mary Kline Bunnell, Charles Bunnell, Mary Miller Burglin, Florence Brown, Ida Bartlett, E.L. Bob Bartlett, Edward Bartlett, Margaret A. Bell, Minnie Brewis, Marcus Tyler, Jonas Brewis, and Blanche Cascaden, Fortymile River, Kodiak, Kenai, Flat, Eagle and Valdez, Alaska.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-07. Mike reads from the record book of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Augusta Annette Waechter Courtney, Rae B. Carter, Anna E. Creamer, Anna Penketh Caskey, Martha J. Cox, Corinne Call, May Kimbell Collins, Helen Moore Bachman Carlyle, Margaret Henshaw Collins, Mary Elizabeth Chadwick, Adrianna Coyle, Gertrude Clemens, Ida E. Crook, Delia Dunham, Klondy N. Dufresne, Lucy Duree, Mary DeCamp, Driscoll, Mary Delaney, Mrs. John Durand, Mrs. Joe A. Davis, Lulu Ann Fairburn, Laura Hagin, Foster O'Flanigan, and Iditarod, Ruby, Rampart, Nome, Ketchikan, Skagway, Wrangell, and Harding Lake, Alaska.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-08. Mike reads from the record book of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Evaleana Ferguson, W.C. Baker, Forbes Baker, Dorman Baker, R.W. Ferguson, Roberta Ferguson, Leona Foster, Bernard Friss, Marie Harriet Friss, Beatrice Gasser, George W. Gasser, Minnie Fraser Gillette, L.R. Gillette, Margaret Elizabeth Thomas, Louise Crosley Gillette, Lewis Fraser Gillette, Mary Lakeman Gillette, Carol Suzanne Gillette, Louis Gilmore, Bertha Grill, Minnie Dahl Geis, Robert J. Geis, Wilamina Gebhart Gobracht, William Gobracht, Dorothy Pet Green, B.B. Green, Elizabeth Griffith, Florence Kling Harding, Amante Tonseth Hanson, Fred Hanson, Robert Lloyd Hanson, Stanley Howard Hanson, Alice Hanley, William Hanley, Jessie M. Rose Howard, Mary Hahche, Agnes Potts Hering, George Edward Hering, Muriel Estelle Hering, John Lee Victor Hering, Alan Reed Hering, Arthur Everett Hering, Donald Murry Hering, Agnes Gladys Hering, Hazel Patricia Hering, Thomas Alexander Hering, Walter Andrew Hering, Betty Jane Hering, Tolovana, and Juneau, Alaska .
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-09. Mike reads from the record book of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Bessie Anna Boyd Hering, John Phillips Hering, Calving Boyd Hering, William Lowden Hering, Dorothy Beistline, Mildred Fetisworth, Kitty Hensley, Bertha Hamilton, Clara Jane Holmes Mahoney, Anna Viola Homer, Ethel Hayes, Mrs. John Howey, Grace M. Rose Hard, Cecil M. Shaver, Erik Hard, Emma May Johnson, Fannie Dell Johnston, Hannah A. Johnson, Martha A. Judd, Fannie G. Joyce, Frances Louisa Kraus, Vonda V. Kelning, Georgiana Keys, Cordelia M. Karshner, F. Lois Karstens, Harry Karstens, Charlotte Kubin, Bertha King, Ella Loflin, Tophia Keith, Mrs. Charles Strandberg, Charles Strandberg, Jr., Art Strandberg, Herb Strandberg, Sarah Frances Latimer, Marsha Latimer Lavery, Robert Lavery, R.K. Lavery, William Latimer Lavery, James Valentine Lavery, Helen Lucille Lavery, and Ophir, Alaska.
ORAL HISTORY 78-40-10. Mike reads from the record book of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, Jane Louise Lenard Langstrom, Richard Langstrom, Ebba Mayben, Louise Jane Maddox, Mable Anne Moore, James Grant Moore, Emma Wells McKinnon, Thomas McKinnon, Mary Catherine McKinnon, Frank Carr, Thomas Carr, Ella C. Miller, Mary Miller Furand, Henry, William, Robert, and Max Miller, Mary Miller Furand, Josephine Miller, Emma Warwick, Holly Miller, Albina Miller, Susan McKinnon, Daniel McKinnon, Susan M. MacQuarrie, George A. MacQuarrie, Lurissa Jane Maddocks, Roy E. Maddocks, David Roy Maddox, Carolina Markuson, Tom Markuson, Sally L. McCandless, Erbille McCandless, Albert A. McCandless, Elsa Ansin McGee, Elya Mitchell, Dorothy Eileen and Robert John Mitchell, Bertha C. Moody, George Clifford Moody, Daphne Irene Harris, Clifford, George Bertram and James Edson Moody, Maria Morgan, Donald Alan, Mildred Elizabeth, Kenneth Gordon, Eleanor Myrtle, and James Thomas Morgan, Margaret Murie, Olaus Murie, Elsa McGee, Emma Wells McKinnon, Thomas Wells Carr, Mildred K. Nerland, Leslie Nerland, Leslie Nerland, Dyea, Douglas Island, and Ester, Alaska.
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Portion of title: Pioneer Women of Alaska.