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Two postcards Includes memorial service program.

Theatre production Cat's Paw, Aaaron Gaffey, Dan Hopman, Cyndi Kurtz

Professor of Criminal Justice, 1976-1981

John Terres interviewed by Nick P. Kruchten. Terres reinterviewed by Dean Nelson https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/wpabio/1289

Director: Ed Berman Promotional flyer.

Written by Ted Tally

https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/worldwar_oh/20/

Biographical Information: Hortense Terhaar was born October 14, 1915 in Holdingford, Minnesota to Nicholas and Amanda (Thull) Terhaar. After graduating from high school, she moved to Iowa City, where she worked for the editor of Better Homes and Gardens. She worked as a nurse in the St. Cloud Hospital and then the St. Cloud VA before volunteering for the Navy in 1943. During the war, she took on a variety of roles, including dietetics and surgical supply at Norman, Oklahoma; Seattle, Washington; and Camp Pendleton, California. After the war, she attended the University of Minnesota, where she studied public health. She returned to work, but remained on reserve status and was recalled to serve in the Korean War, during which she was a ward supervisor in San Diego and Oakland. She returned to the St. Cloud VA after the Korean War, and retired from there as a nurse and instructor. She was a member of the St. Cloud Hospital Nurses Association and the Veterans Hospital Nurses Association. Terhaar passed away on March 9, 2008, and is buried at the St. Boniface Catholic parish cemetery in Cold Spring, Minnesota.

Transcript Summary: Hortense Terhaar discussed her experiences as a Navy nurse during World War II and the Korean War. She briefly described her early life growing up in central Minnesota and working as a nurse at the St. Cloud Hospital and VA hospital in St. Cloud. She primarily focused on her World War II experiences as a nurse in Norman, Oklahoma, Seattle, Washington, and Camp Pendleton, California, as well as her Korean War experience in San Diego. Her descriptions of these events included the living conditions of nurses, which she often described as excellent, and the nature of their work. Terhaar particularly talked about how World War II nurses had to learn new jobs that they had not done as civilians, how being recalled from reserves for the Korean War was upsetting and disrupted her life, and the social lives of nurses and male officers. She also described how civilians reacted to women in the service and how civilian treatment of veterans had changed since World War II. Terhaar also described her life in between the wars and after the Korean War, including attending the University of Minnesota and returning to the St. Cloud VA despite losing the position she had held before being recalled from the reserves.

Interview by Nancy Baker

One 90 minute audio cassette

https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/gen_oh/42/ [15547]

Biographical Information: Cyril Tenvoorde was born on September 25, 1905, in St Cloud Minnesota, to a family of German and Dutch immigrants. From an early age, Tenvoorde spent much of his time working in the automobile industry, helping his father and brothers Lloyd and Wally assemble Model Ts at the age of twelve. He became bookkeeper for their business at the age of sixteen. Aside from his work, Tenvoorde enjoyed spending time hunting and fishing and married his wife Beatrice in 1937. They raised three children named John, David, and Paul. Tenvoorde passed away on September 20, 1995 at the age of 89.

Transcript Summary: In an interview conducted on June 30, 1977, Cy Tenvoorde discussed his life in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and his role in the local automobile industry. Tenvoorde was born in St. Cloud to a family of German and Dutch immigrants in 1905, and that from a young age, he was actively working alongside his father and brothers in their family’s automobile business. Tenvoorde assembled Ford Model Ts when he was twelve. By the age of sixteen, he helped manage the business as a bookkeeper, a position that he continued to do at the time of the interview). Additionally, Tenvoorde worked at the dealership during the Great Depression and World War II. The work proved to be challenging but lucrative work all the same. Aside from his career, Tenvoorde also discussed his family life. He married his wife Beatrice on June 8, 1937 and had had three sons and eight grandchildren. Beatrice passed away in 1974.

Interview conducted by James Robak

Includes 2 newspaper clippings. Audio recording is on the same reel-to-reel tape as J. Leonard Carroll from Church Oral Histories.

10th Street bridge, Mississippi River

10th Street bridge

IFO, Dick Dendinger

KVSC trivia weekend