Interview with Sister Helen Marie Shrift, C.S.J., June 19, 1980, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0042-t1s1
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Title
Interview with Sister Helen Marie Shrift, C.S.J., June 19, 1980
Subject
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company, Shrift, Helen Marie, Catholics, Family life, Miners, Labor unions
Description
[t1s1]Sister Helen Marie Shrift talks about birth in 1934; one of nine children; parents purchase of house in Summerhill; her father, with German heritage, as an electrician for Pennsylvania Coal and Coke/Bethlehem Steel Mine; unions; home life; use of Company doctor; public school education in Catholic-dominated town; brother in World War II; brother in Korean War; mother’s work at state sanitarium; Black Lung; role of Church in their lives; nativism and ethnic biases. She talks about her mother’s family (McDunns) and farm.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Shrift, Helen Marie (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1980-06-19
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 46 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0042
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Summerhill (Pa.)
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