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Summary:

Interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, nurse, concerning her experiences as a civilian secretary with the State Department in Washington, D.C., before the and during the World War II. Educational background; decision to take a position with the State Department in early 1941; adjustments in moving from a town of 2,500 people to the nation's capitol; personal observations of the activities at the Japanese embassy on December 7, 1941; wartime living conditions, rationing, and transportation adjustments; social life; comments and observations of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Japanese ambassadors Saburo Kurusu and Kichisabura Nomura, Ambassador Joseph Grew, and Eleanor Roosevelt; working with diplomatic codes; incident involving President Roosevelt's stamp collection; decision to join the Cadet Nurse Corps, 1944.

Author/Creator:

McCune, Evelyn Myers, 1918-

Contributors:

Marcello, Ronald E.

Rivertown at War Oral History Project

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Oral history interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, 1996 August 4 [by McCune, E.M.]

Related Works:

University of North Texas oral history collection

Related Series:

Oral History; [volume] 1148

Subjects:

McCune, Evelyn Myers, 1918- — Oral history

World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American

United States Department of State — Oral history

Women — Employment — Washington (D.C.) — Oral history

United States Cadet Nurse Corps — Oral history

Women — Employment — Illinois — Chicago — Oral history

Genres:

Oral history — Examples

Washington (D.C.) oral history — Examples

Wrightsville (Pa.) oral history — Examples

General Notes:

Interview conducted in 1996 for the Rivertown at War Oral History Project, University of North Texas. Interviewer: Dr. Ronald E. Marcello, Professor of history, University of North Texas.

Physical Description:

66 leaves ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

OH 1148

OCLC Numbers:

252877471