posted 09-26-2013 09:56 AM            

Anyone know who she worked for?

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Interview with Jeanne M. Holm [1/23/2003]

Mary-Jo Binker:

I am the Director of the Oral History Program with the Women's Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, and I'm interviewing Major General Jeanne M. Holm, United States Air Force retired, and today is January 23rd, 2003. And General Holm, I'm going to begin this morning by asking you a little bit about your background. Where did you grow up?

Jeanne M. Holm:

I grew up in Portland, Oregon. I was born and raised there, and lived there until I entered the military in 1942.

Mary-Jo Binker:

And tell me a little bit about that time before you went into the military, about your education and your -- the kind of job you had before you went into the military.
Jeanne M. Holm:

Well, I was in a family where my mother was widowed with three very, very small children in the middle of a depression. So it was a very difficult period, and went from one school to another and moved a lot until my mother remarried when I was about 15.

Mary-Jo Binker:

Uh-huh.

Jeanne M. Holm:

And then we had a more stable kind of home life. And I went to high school there in Portland, Oregon. And then after I graduated from high school, I had already studied silversmithing and metal work. So I became a silversmith for a while until the war started.

Mary-Jo Binker:

Doing jewelry and that sort of thing?

Jeanne M. Holm:

Jewelry but mostly large pieces like trays, and coffee, and tea sets, and dishes, and things like that, candy dishes and that kind of --

Mary-Jo Binker:

You were working for a company then?

Jeanne M. Holm:

No, working for a private individual who was the only woman silversmith in the United States.

Mary-Jo Binker:

Uh-huh.

Jeanne M. Holm:

I was one of her three assistants.

Mary-Jo Binker:

And then why did you decide to join the military?

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posted 11-05-2013 04:46 PM            

Does anyone know where exactly she worked?