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21. Return Visits
21. Return Visits of Edward Sekermestrovich — printed p. 33 — recorded February 6, 1980 at Corvallis, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- Narrator
- Edward Sekermestrovich
- Recorded
- February 6, 1980 · Corvallis, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Royal G. Jackson, Karen Thomas
- Printed pages
- p. 33
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Royal G. Jackson: You had some brothers and sisters.
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes, I had brothers and sisters.
Royal G. Jackson: How big a family was that?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Ten.
Royal G. Jackson: Ah! Did any of those go in the 3-C camp?
Edward Sekermestrovich: None of them. They're gold bricks, all of them. [When Ed repeated this same statement to me over ten years later, his eyes were twinkling and he was grinning with obvious pride. BZ]
21. Return Visits
Royal G. Jackson: Did you ever leave Corvallis once you came back in 1946?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes, I went home four times.
Royal G. Jackson: But just to visit?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes. And come back.
Royal G. Jackson: You lived in Corvallis, and that's where you came back after the war?
Edward Sekermestrovich: That's right.
Royal G. Jackson: And you hadn't been back to Camp Arboretum until two weeks ago?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Oh, no, when I came back the first time I went there. When I came back in 1946 or 1947, or whatever the heck it was.
Royal G. Jackson: What was the camp like after 1942, when it wasn't a 3-C camp anymore? Do you recall?
Edward Sekermestrovich: No, I don't. I think that's funny when I got out of there, I didn't meet anybody from there after that. I don't know why. Just like going to a different street. They all went some place else, and that's it.
Royal G. Jackson: One of the notes we made was something about feeding starving livestock. Do you remember anything like that?
Edward Sekermestrovich: No, must have been when I was out of town. [See Starker and Berg oral histories regarding the "Blue Snow" of 1887-1888. BZ]
Royal G. Jackson: Did your group move out by the time you quit?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Oh, no. I quit before they moved.
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
- This page
- Sekermestrovich 1991. 21. Return Visits, p. 33. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m04-sekermestrovich/21-return-visits/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Sekermestrovich 1991, p. 33 — Monograph #04:33
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