Interviewer
May Vallance
Files
Description
Edna Johnson Thomas recalls her career as a school teacher in the Bitterroot Valley, teaching at Hamilton Heights, Etna School, and Corvallis in the early to mid-20th century. She describes the difficulties of being a 19-year-old woman teaching students who were difficult to deal with and of all different ages in a one- or two-room schoolhouse. Thomas discusses specific children with behavioral issues, such as bullies and boys shooting out school windows with shotguns, as well as students with developmental disabilities. She notes that she learned a lot from teaching.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Hamilton Heights School; Corvallis, Montana; Hamilton, Montana; Bitterroot Valley, Montana; Education, Montana; Schoolhouses, rural; Etna School; Ravalli County, Montana; One-room schoolhouses
Original Date
1978
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Bitterroot Historical Society Oral History Project, OH 120, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 120-011d
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (60 min.) analog + 1 transcript (3 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
00:10:42 minutes
Local Filename
OH_120_011_d.mp3; OH_120_011_d.pdf
Citation
Thomas, Edna, "Edna Johnson Thomas Interview, circa 1978" (1978). Bitterroot Historical Society Oral History Project. 31.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/bitterrootvalley_oralhistory/31