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- Viola Baas talks about her experiences as a teacher at U.S. military bases in Japan during the Korean War. Baas explains why she applied to teach overseas, traveling to Seattle for a harsh orientation and training, and being sent to the island of Hokkaido in the north of Japan as U.S. occupation forces were leaving and base schools were closing. Baas describes touring Japan, her living situation, her fellow teachers, and her many assignments and says that she was reassigned to teach in Germany in June of 1956. Bass also discusses the differences between schools in Japan and Germany and describes the culture shock she felt when she finally returned to the U.S.. Baas is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Eileen Lay talks about her service as a teacher in occupied Japan from 1950 to 1953. Lay describes traveling to Japan and conducting shipboard sing-a-longs with U.S. troops bound for the Korean War. She also talks about her daily life in Japan, surviving a typhoon, the classes she taught, her friendships with Japanese citizens and U.S. soldiers, judging Japanese students in English speaking contests, and traveling with the Cormorant fisherman who used the birds to catch fish. Lay is recorded at a regular meeting of the Women's Overseas Service League Lansing, MI Unit. Introduction is by Elsie Hornbacher.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-04-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after World War Two. Hornbacher talks about going to Japan in 1949, her ocean voyage to Yokohama, shipboard life, riding out a typhoon, the destruction still evident in postwar Japan, Japanese culture, and how life for the Japanese gradually began to improve. Hornbacher discusses the school where she worked, the curriculum, her students, visiting Hiroshima and about the Korean War and American dependents evacuating from Korea to Japan. Hornbacher says that she was reassigned to Naples in 1952, and that the city was unsafe and controlled by the mafia. After "enduring" a year in Italy, she says that she was next sent to Austria which she found both colorful and interesting and was finally sent back to the U.S. in 1954.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Edna Miller talks about her work as a teacher in the city of Baguio, Philippines beginning in August 1941 and being interned as a prisoner of war in a camp in the mountains outside of Manila after the Japanese invasion. Miller discusses the conditions in the camp, the prisoner's diet, holding makeshift church services, the behavior of the Japanese guards and her fellow prisoners. After the camp was liberated in 1944, Miller says that she decided to stay in the Philippines and joined the American Red Cross and then after the war ended, took a job with the U.S. Army teaching soldiers until 1947 when she left Manila for the states. Miller, who later taught in Army schools in occupied Japan, says that she has no regrets about her overseas experiences, despite the hardships and that her greatest thrill was meeting General Douglas MacArthur when her POW camp was liberated. Miller is interviewed by Evelyn McHiggins.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-06-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project