FOLK COLLECTION 44

Cache Valley Presbyterian Church Oral History Collection

Historical Note

Using the oral histories, and information from the First Presbyterian Church Manuscript Collection at Utah State University, the Memorial Committee produced The Presbyterian Experience in Cache Valley: One Hundred Thirty Years of Faith and Service, 1878-2008.

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Provenance

Dorothy Jones (chair of the Memorial Committee of the First Presbyterian Church) deposited the materials in this collection at USU's Special Collections on 12 October 2009. Copies of the oral histories are also housed at the Utah State Division of History in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Scope and Content

The materials in this collection include typed interview transcripts, interview audio on CDs, interview release forms and a copy The Presbyterian Experience in Cache Valley: One Hundred Thirty Years of Faith and Service, 1878-2008 produced out of the oral history effort.

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Inventory

Box 1:   Administrative and Media

Folder 1:   Interview list

Item 1:   Interview list

Item 2:   Note from Dorothy Jones indicating that the Vanderbeek interview deposited at USU is not the same as the one deposited at the UDSH, this is a new one. The first interview was not loud or clear enough to be transcribed.

Folder 2:   Interview Release Forms & Collector Deposit Form [removed to collection file]

Item 1:   Pat Bahler

Item 2:   Nancy Bartelt (two release forms)

Item 3:   Fred J. Berkenkamp

Item 4:   Linda Burns

Item 5:   Richard J. Burns

Item 6:   Phyllis and William F. (Bill) Campbell

Item 7:   Mary E. Carigan

Item 8:   Aleida K. Cronin

Item 9:   Joyce D. and Don Davis

Item 10:   Paul N. Davis

Item 11:   Mary E. and Norbert V. DeByle

Item 12:   Verna Clare and Thomas H. (Tom) Eshelman

Item 13:   Evelyn Falk

Item 14:   Elizabeth (Betsy) and Raymond (Ray) Franchina

Item 15:   Carole Gibbs

Item 16:   David Hedgepeth

Item 17:   Christine (Chris) and Nathan Hult

Item 18:   Martha and James (Jim) Jarvis

Item 19:   Isabel Katana

Item 20:   Sara A. (Sally) Keller

Item 21:   Philip R. Kepner

Item 22:   Koenig Family: Betty K. O'Connor, Mary K. Wood and David G. Koenig

Item 23:   John Fred Krusi

Item 24:   Sylvia Mahoney

Item 25:   Jean and Paul Packer

Item 26:   Betty Slack

Item 27:   D.A. South and Caroleen S. Waite

Item 28:   Betty and Bob Taylor

Item 29:   Rev. James A. Tweedie

Item 30:   Louise and James (Jim) Vanderbeek

Item 31:   Kathryn C. Wanlass

Item 32:   Melva Wiebe

Item 33:   M. Coburn Williams

Item 34:   Dorothy D. Jones, Project Director (Collector Deposit Form)

Folder 3:   Publication

Item 1:   The Presbyterian Experience in Cache Valley: One Hundred Thirty Years of Faith and Service, 1878-2008

Folder 4:   Collection Media

Item 1:   CD of interview transcripts and photographs (2008-09)

Item 2:   CD of interviews A-G (audio)

Item 3:   CD of Hedgepeth interviews, parts 1 & 2 (of 3) (audio)

Item 4:   CD of Hedgepeth part 3 (of 3) and Keller interviews (audio)

Item 5:   CD of Kepner and Krusi interviews (audio)

Item 6:   CD of Koenig family, Mahoney, Packer and Slack interviews (audio)

Item 7:   CD of South/Waite, Taylor, Vanderbeek, Wanlass, Wiebe interviews (audio)

Item 8:   CD of Williams interview (audio)

Box 2:   Interview Transcripts

Folder 1:   Pat Bahler (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 29 February 2008) 19 pages

Folder 2:   Nancy Bartelt, 2nd interview (interviewed by Dorothy Jones, 31 October 2008) 13 pages

Folder 3:   Nancy Bartelt, 1st interview (interviewed by Michael B. Diezmos, 20 March 2008) 14 pages NOTE: Sound erased, thus another interview was conducted.

Folder 4:   Fred J. Berkenkamp (interviewed by Dorothy Jones, 29 May 2008) 13 pages

Folder 5:   Linda Burns (interviewed by Sylvia Mahoney, 18 April 2008) 26 pages

Folder 6:   Richard Burns (interviewed by Sylvia Mahoney, 2 April 2008) 23 pages

Folder 7:   Phyllis M. and William F. (Bill) Campbell (interviewed by Cathy Short, 20 June 2008) 30 pages

Folder 8:   Mary E. Carigan (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 14 March 2008) 17 pages

Folder 9:   Aleida Cronin (interviewed by Sylvia Mahoney, 13 March 2008) 16 pages

Folder 10:   Don and Joyce Davis (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 5 March 1008) 23 pages

Folder 11:   Paul Davis (interviewed by Sylvia Mahoney, 6 April 2008) 26 pages

Folder 12:   Mary and Norbert DeByle (interviewed by Cathy Short, 17 November 2008) 30 pages

Folder 13:   Verna Claire and Tom Eshelman (interviewed by Cathy Short, 27 June 2008) 22 pages

Folder 14:   Evelyn Hargrove Falk (interviewed by Linda Burns, 27 October 2008) 12 pages

Folder 15:   Raymond (Ray) and Elizabeth (Betsy) Franchina (interviewed by Linda Burns, 17 April 2008) 19 pages

Folder 16:   Carole Gibbs (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 25 November 2008) 8 pages

Folder 17:   Rev. David Hedgepeth (Interview questions were mailed to Rev. Hedgepeth and he answered them on 23-24 April 2008 and 16 June 2008) 22 pages

Folder 18:   Christine (Chris) and Nathan Hult (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 20 October 2008) 20 pages

Folder 19:   James (Jim) and Martha Jarvis (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 10 April 2008) 27 pages

Folder 20:   Isabel Katana (interviewed by Sylvia Mahoney, 30 March 2008)10 pages

Folder 21:   Sally Keller (interviewed by Tanya Rice, 19 May 2008) 16 pages

Folder 22:   Philip R. Kepner (Interview questions were mailed to Mr. Kepner and he answered them and sent them back for the project) 7 pages

Folder 23:   Mary Koenig Wood, David Koenig and Betty Koenig O'Connor (Interview questions were mailed to the three Koenig siblings. In October 2008 they met and record their memories for this oral history project) 10 pages

Folder 24:   John Fred Krusi (interviewed by Chris Lee, 15 March 2008) 10 pages

Folder 25:   Sylvia Mahoney (interviewed by Tanya Rice, 7 March 2008) 19 pages

Folder 26:   Paul Packer (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 12 August 2008) 17 pages

Folder 27:   Betty Slack (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 20 October 2008) 13 pages

Folder 28:   D.A. South and Caroleen Waite (interviewed by Tanya Rice, 16 May 2008) 20 pages

Folder 29:   Robert Earl (Bob) and Betty Taylor (interviewed by Cathy Short, 21 July 2008) 19 pages

Folder 30:   Reverend James A. (Jim) Tweedie (written reminiscence) 7 pages

Folder 31:   James and Louise Vanderbeek (interviewed by Linda Burns, 1 September 2009) 15 pages

Folder 32:   Kathryn Wanlass (interviewed by Nathan and Christine Hult, 6 November 2008) 8 pages

Folder 33:   Melva Wiebe (interviewed by Evelyn Falk, 11 March 2008) 18 pages

Folder 34:   Coburn Williams (interviewed by Joseph Woodard, 4 March 2008) 16 pages

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