Abstract The Mabel Compart collection consists of an audiocassette and transcript of an oral history interview between Compart and Cynthia Torkelson during November 1985. In the interview, Compart discussed her experiences as a rural school teacher that began around 1930. From the mid-1940s through the early-1980s, Compart worked as an elementary teacher and later as a middle school teacher in St. James, Minnesota. After retiring from her duties as a regular classroom teacher, Compart began...

Abstract The Leonard Dalen collection consists of two audiocassettes and a transcript of an oral history interview conducted between Dalen and Karla Johnson during the fall of 1986. Dalen worked as a business education teacher in St. James, Minnesota from 1956 through the spring of 1986. In the interview, Dalen discussed his expectations of himself, colleagues, and students, the effects of world and national events on his pupils, the rights of teachers and students, the rewards of educating youth,...