Oral history interview : Bessie Ramona Johnson Day, Reed College class of 1940 / interviewed by Robin Gay Walker, 1969, on October 19, 2003.

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Oral history interview : Bessie Ramona Johnson Day, Reed College class of 1940 / interviewed by Robin Gay Walker, 1969, on October 19, 2003.

Bessie Johnson Day was a day-dodger from Portland who attended Reed for one year in 1934-1935 on partial scholarship. She worked during her student year and used public transportation to and from the college. She describes Canyon Day, the teas at Anna Mann, badminton, and fellow student J.C. Taylor. She married Jesse H. Day, 1942, and worked to put him through Reed. Later, she worked for the Navy in the civil service, for a scientific journal, and on several campus committees at Ohio University.

Transcript: [29] leaves.

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