Description
Mary Anne Ceminski was raised in Colorado and moved to Kansas to attend college. She got her first teaching job in Kansas and then, during the war, resettled in Richmond, where she initially worked in the shipyards before returning to teaching. She taught elementary school during and after the war. Discusses: impressions of Richmond, working in the office at shipyard, including meeting Henry Kaiser, Nystrom Elementary School, racial issues within the classroom and beyond, social activities in Richmond.