Sonja Goodwin: oral history with Molly Graham

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Title:
Sonja Goodwin: oral history with Molly Graham
Description:
From a series of oral histories with residents and employees of the Loomis Village Retirement Community, South Hadley, Mass., regarding their lives and experience in a retirement community. Sonja Goodman, five year resident of Loomis; born into anti-Nazi Austrian family in St. Gaul, Switzerland, and escaped to the United States; worked for Rohm and Haas Chemical Co., but went into Peace Corps and discovered she liked teaching, taking position at RPI for 30 years; moved to Loomis and death of husband; father's philandering; preparing to move into retirement home.
Interviewee:
Goodwin, Sonja
Interviewer:
Graham, Molly
Date:
July 21, 2010
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Genre:
Oral histories (document genres)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Loomis Communities Records
Series:
Series 5. Oral Histories
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Death
Older people--Massachusetts--Interviews
Retirees--Massachusetts--Interviews
Retirement--Massachusetts
Retirement communities--Massachusetts
Loomis Village Retirement Community
Places:
Massachusetts
Extent:
1 audio recording ; 00:37:36
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums685-o001-i016
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
South Hadley (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums685-o001-i016