Oral history interview with Hazel (Cleveland) Saye, November 20, 1993
Oral history interview with Hazel (Cleveland) Saye conducted by Kara L. Pederson on November 20, 1993. Hazel Saye discusses her early childhood, education at Plainwell High School, coming to WMU as a student, student life on WMU, her favorate professors, and student social life. She graduated in 1933 and took a job teaching in Wyandotte, Michigan until receiving a library degree in 1939. She talks about her first job as a teacher, her students including Zack York, and working during the Depression. She discusses coming to WMU, her positions as librarian, teaching at the campus training school, moving from East Campus to the West Campus, working with faculty, and the departmentalization within libraries. She also discusses the attack on Pearl Harbor and the changes to the university as a result. Saye served as circulation librarian from 1939 until she retired in 1965. She passed away in 1999.