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Oral history interview with Elise F. Wendel [Sound Recording 03]
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- 1985-01-30 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:29:47
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Elise Fleischner Wendel, nee Elise Clark Fleischner, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. Her father, I.N. Fleischner, was a partner in the Fleischner, Mayer & Co. department store. She attended Wellesley College. In 1927, she and Harold Fox Wendel, president of the Lipman, Wolfe & Co. were married. Harold F. Wendel had two children from a previous marriage, and the couple later had one child together. She was involved with the Girl Scouts of America for most of her adult life. She died in 1986.
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Tape 2, Side 1. This oral history interview with Elise F. Wendel was conducted by Rick Harmon in Portland, Oregon, from January 30 to February 27, 1985. The interview was conducted in five sessions. In the first interview session, conducted on January 30, 1985, Wendel discusses her family background and early life in Southwest Portland, in the area that later became the Park Blocks. She talks about the people in her neighborhood and how the neighborhood changed during the time she lived there. She describes her childhood home at length. She talks about her experience growing up as a Jewish person in Portland, her recreational activities, and a family trip to Europe just before the outbreak of World War I. She also briefly shares her memories of civilian life during World War I and of the 1918 flu epidemic. She discusses her education, including attending Catlin Gabel School and studying in Paris, France.
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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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- Harmon, Rick (Contributor)