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Cora - 1942

2. Salt Lake City, Utah 1960-1967, then moved to California in 1967

I graduated from high school in 1960 and went to the University of Utah, graduating in 1964 with
a teaching degree. I married my husband in 1966 and we moved to Upland, CA in 1967 when
he graduated from the University of Utah. He went to work at Kaiser Steel in Fontana. We
adopted our daughter in 1969 and had our son in 1971. I taught school except for the years
from 1969 through 1974. We moved to Wrightwood, CA in 1974 and I again went back to
teaching. We spent vacations camping and regularly went water skiing
at the Colorado River.

3. In the 1960's, girls seldom wore jeans or slacks to school and my friends and I made our
skirts and dresses. Skirts were usually flared and just below knee length, and we usually wore
sweater sets, with a cardigan over the top of a short sleeved matching sweater. We wore
saddle oxfords and slip-on penny loafers with white stockings which came above our ankles.
When I began teaching, teachers wore dresses, nylons and heels. We wore hats and gloves to
church. On weekends and after school, we wore jeans, sweatshirts or long sleeved tee shirts,
and penny loafers. Men wore suits and ties if they worked in an office or long pants with long
sleeved shirts if they worked elsewhere in town. Casual clothes were shorts, but mid-thigh
length and sleeveless or short sleeved blouses. I remember wearing sandals rarely, never flip
flops.

Rock and roll was our music, and Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and boy groups were most of the
performers. Not many girls performing that I recall. I preferred country music and honestly
didn't listen to popular music much. Pocket radios became very popular in the 60's, so it was
easier to listen to music wherever you went.

4. My first voting experience was the election of President Kennedy. He was charming and
well-spoken, and everyone was enchanted with his wife and young children. I remember feeling
that he would make good decisions and keep our country on track. During the Cuban Missile
Crisis, I felt he was strong enough to save the country from a certain war, and when he was
assassinated, I felt like I had lost a family member. He started the Peace Corps, which some of
my friends joined, and it seemed to me that our country was doing well.

5. In the beginning, after President Kennedy was killed, I felt so sorry for Lyndon Johnson, but
as the years passed, my opinion of him changed and I began to see him as an enforcer, rather
than a kind person. He seemed to antagonize other countries and I did not like hearing his
speeches, feeling he wasn't always telling the whole story. I do think he tried to carry on Pres.
Kennedy's ideas on space and education, but not so much in regard to integration and human
rights.

6. Vietnam was always such a confusing thing to me. I understood why we had to help due to
treaties, wanted our country to do the right thing, but I never felt comfortable that it was handled
well. Many friends were involved in the war, both there and at home, and my husband joined
the Air Force Reserve so he could finish college without being drafted, but still be involved. It
was a very unsettled time, and I could see why those who protested on both sides had such
strong feelings. It seemed like this was the beginning of a real division of our country, which
has never healed.

7. No, but as a teacher in the late 70's, many of my students were from the camps in Vietnam,
and were sponsored into our area by local churches. It was so sad to see how their lives were
shattered by what had happened in Vietnam and afterwards, but they were thankful to be in a
much better place.

8. Growing up in an area where there was no racial bias or segregation, I was horrified to learn
about the Whites Only policies in the southern states. I had never seen a black person until we
moved to Salt Lake City when I was in high school. It never entered my mind to think they were
any different in any way from me, and it was only when attending college that I saw evidence of
racial bias. I remember the white students who went into the south to march, some of them
murdered, all of them abused. When Martin Luther King, Jr. began his marches, I supported his
movement 100% and have had him as a role model for my life since then. His murder greatly
angered me and still does to this day. I remember when the National Guard was called in to
keep black children from attending school, and the bombings at black churches, and I was in
disbelief that our country would allow any of this to continue.

9. No I never participated, not because of lack of interest, but to me, the protests only made
matters worse, causing more hurt and division. I thought all that energy could be put to better
use to help work toward a better end result.

10. The things I remember about President Nixon are all negative. I never felt I could trust in
him or that he would make good decisions on his own. Watergate was such a total
embarrassment to our country, and when he resigned, I was very thankful.

11. During the 70's especially, our culture began to change, needing to include working women,
other cultures, and different types of technologies. Computers began to appear and become
important, and the types of jobs began to shift