Abstract The Ellen Jahnke Goertzen collection consists of an audiocassette tape, CD duplicate of the audiocassette, and transcript of an interview conducted between Goertzen and Lois A. Jahnke during the winter of 1991. Goertzen worked as a home economics teacher at the middle school level in both Faribault and North Mankato, Minnesota. In the interview, she discussed the change and continuities that have occurred between 1953 and 1991. Goertzen focused on the name change her particular field of...

Abstract The Jeanne D. Lundheim collection consists of an audiocassette, a CD duplicate of the audiocassette, and transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Lundheim and Victoria J. Van Duyn during the fall of 1988. Lundheim worked as a foreign language teacher from 1952 to 1986. In the interview, she focused on the changes that occurred during her career as a librarian, English, and French teacher at Central High School in South Minneapolis between 1952 and 1982 when the school...

Abstract The Judith Newton collection consists of an audiocassette and transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Newton and Elden Eklund during the autumn of 1983. In the interview, Newton, an English teacher at Faribault, Minnesota, discussed the purpose and results of the 1975 Faribault Teachers’ Strike. Newton noted the strike’s effect on teachers, administrators, and students. She believed that the strike hardened positions on both the employer and employee sides of the...

Abstract The Donald Scheiber collection consists of an audiocassette and transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Scheiber and Terry Scheiber during the autumn of 1984. In the interview, Donald Scheiber, a teacher at Jordan High School in Jordan, Minnesota, discussed his observations concerning his participation in the Jordan Teachers’ Strike of 1981. He used the interview to explain the events leading to the strike, its initiation and running, and the conflict’s aftermath....

Abstract The Leslie (Les) Sonnabend collection contains an audiocassette and transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Sonnabend and Gregory Mead during the autumn of 1984. In the interview, Sonnabend, the Assistant Superintendent of Prior Lake Schools in Prior Lake, Minnesota, discussed his recollections concerning the Prior Lake Teachers’ Strike of 1981. He mentioned how the strike impacted his life, the availability of replacement teachers, and the dispute’s aftermath....

Abstract The Huldah H. Thorstad collection consists of an audiocassette and transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Thorstad and Pam (Tracy) Rexroat during the fall of 1986. Thorstad, who worked as an elementary school teacher between 1923 and 1972 at schools in Lyle, Adams, Blooming Prairie, and St. Paul, Minnesota, discussed her life, her career, her opinions of school administrators, teacher organizations, fellow staff and faculty members, students, and the purposes behind...