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Interview with Ida E. Matz [Sound Recording 02]
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- 1981-06-18 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:17:50
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Ida Emma Matz was born in Medford, Oregon, in 1920. Two years later, her family moved to Portland. Her father was a forest ranger, and her family spent summers camping in forests in Oregon and Washington. In 1941, she became a nurse at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, and shortly afterward, he began working as an industrial nurse. During World War II, she worked as a nurse at Commercial Iron Works in Portland. In 1957, she and Roger Henry Besson were married. She died in 1993.
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Tape 1, Side 2. This oral history interview with Ida E. Matz was conducted by Sandra Cook at Matz's home in Portland, Oregon, on June 18, 1981. In this interview, Matz discusses her early life as the child of a forest ranger in Oregon and Washington, including her education and family summers camping in state forests. She talks about her education and career as a nurse at Emanuel Hospital in Portland. She also shares her experience during the Depression. She describes how she came to work as a nurse at Commercial Iron Works during World War II. She talks about some of the injuries she saw in patients at the shipyards and about workplace safety there. She compares her shipyard nursing work to her other nursing jobs and shares her reasons for leaving the field of industrial nursing after 1968. She shares her thoughts about the women’s liberation movement.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland
- Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—Employees
- Henry J. Kaiser Company—Employees
- Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees
- Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees
- Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees
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- Cook, Sandra (Contributor)