Oral history interview : Caroline Newberger Canafax, Reed College, class of 1942 / interviewed by Christie Hedman, 1980, on November 19, 2003.

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Canafax, Carloine Newberger. Oral history interview : Caroline Newberger Canafax, Reed College, class of 1942 / interviewed by Christie Hedman, 1980, on November 19, 2003.

Oral history interview : Caroline Newberger Canafax, Reed College, class of 1942 / interviewed by Christie Hedman, 1980, on November 19, 2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232334835

Canafax discusses her childhood in Washington state and her transfer from the University of Washington to Reed for two years (1940-1942). She describes her studies in anthropology under Marvin Opler, her junior qualifying exam, wartime at Reed, the Anna Mann dorm, and interactions with Professor Dorothy O. Johansen, President Dexter Keezer, Ann Brownlie, and various student friends. Canafax also describes her post-Reed activities in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), as a fire lookout, in many wartime jobs, as a long-time teacher, and as an activitst in radical politics, including her involvment in protesting the Rosenberg trials.

Transcript: [37] leaves.

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