Oral History Project Helps Vietnam Moving Memorial Wall

 

Oral History Project summer school members helped out at the recent Vietnam Moving Memorial Wall which was shown in Wausau. A Wausau Daily Herald article reports that "The wall, an 80 percent scale replica of the memorial, is one of five in the world. The wall is part of a large display passing through Wausau that honors veterans, as well as police and fire service members, called the American Veterans Traveling Tribute."D.C. Everest Oral History Project students manned the computers where people can come to locate where they might find the name of a loved one who died. The computer prints out a sheet that tells which panel the person can be found on. The students were also collecting names for an upcoming project they are doing in which they will be interviewing Vietnam veterans for another book about veterans. Anyone Vietnam veteran who would like to be interviewed can contact me: paleckson@dce.k12.wi.us.Other oral history books can be found at the D.C. Everest Oral History Project website.

Wisconsin Women Oral History Project

This past fall the D.C. Everest Oral History Project completed its 20th book entitled Wisconsin Women: Celebrating Their Contributions The contains over 90 interviews with Wisconsin Women from a variety of different of different fields. The student editors stated that themes such as fighting for rights for women and resilience came out repeatedly as they interviewed people. Students conducted the interviews through their 8th grade history classes and 10th grade seminar classes. The students then transcribed and edited the interviews. Students in our Oral History Project after school club then used the desktop publishing program Quark to get the interviews ready for publishing. Students put in many long and hard hours putting pictures into the interviews, pulling out quotes to be highlighted, making phone calls to get missing information and many other publishing jobs. Most of the interviews can also be found on the D.C. Everest website. Once the book was published a book reception was held and the Grand Theater's Great Hall in Wausau. We were fortunate to have Justice Ann Walsh Bradley and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson give an outstanding presentation about the struggles Wisconsin Women have faced throughout Wisconsin's History.