Edward Sekermestrovich

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Plotted at Calloway Creek, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.

Sessions

• February 6, 1980 — Corvallis, Oregon Interviewers: Royal G. Jackson, Karen Thomas · mixed

Where others mention them

• #8 Neil Vanderburg Narrator: Neil Elton Vanderburg p. 107
• #14 Charles and Norman Hindes Narrator: Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes p. 3

Family named in the transcripts

• spouse

Dates they give

• 1887/1888 — [See Starker and Berg oral histories regarding the "Blue Snow" of 1887-1888. BZ] source · 1860–1890
• 1934 — [CHUCK] I first learned to run cat in the CC's [Edward Sekermestrovich: Monograph #4] and that was late 1934. source · 1921–1940
• 1935 — That was 1935 I think, the first time. Or was it 1936? Have I got a discharge? I don't remember, to tell you the truth on that. source · 1921–1940
• 1935 — All right, then, it must have been the first time they ever signed anybody up. Even in Ohio, in 1935. source · 1921–1940
• 1935 — They helped clear the site of the old State Capitol after it burned in 1935, and aided in the construction of the present building. source · 1921–1940
• 1937 — Yes, I came in 1937. I said in 1938, didn't I? I'm mistaken there. source · 1921–1940
• 1938 — Right here [pointing to Woodley in 1938 CCC Camp Arboretum Group Photo]. source · 1921–1940
• 1938-01 — Enrolled January 6, 1938. That's when you were enrolled, so you probably came out here in January. source · 1921–1940
• 1938-01 — It took a week to come out here. source · 1921–1940
• 1938-01-06 — This is to certify that Edward Sekermestrovich, CC5209381, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, was enrolled . . . 1-6-38 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is hereby discharged therefrom by reason to accept employment. source · 1921–1940
• 1938-01-06 — Said Edward Sekermestrovich was born in Detroit, in the state of Michigan. When he enrolled he was 20 years of age and by occupation a laborer. source · 1921–1940
• 1940 — 1940. source · 1921–1940
• 1940 — Yes, 1940. I was out of camp, but I'd seen her before I left the camp. I was still driving the Army ambulance. source · 1921–1940
• 1940-03-23 — "Given under my hand at Camp S-220, Oregon, this 23rd day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty, by George F. Black, CCC Subaltern. Commanding Company 3503 CCC." source · 1921–1940
• 1942 — Yes, I went in 1942 and came back in 1946. source · 1941–1950
• 1942 — We were married in 1942, shortly before he entered the Army Air Corps. source · 1941–1950
• 1942-02 — February 1942. source · 1941–1950
• 1946 — Did you ever leave Corvallis once you came back in 1946? source · 1941–1950
• 1946 — 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. source · 1941–1950
• 1946 — We returned to Oregon in 1946 to make our home. Several of those Ohio boys either stayed in or returned to Oregon following the war. source · 1941–1950
• 1950s — After that mill closed in the early 1950's, he worked for Rex Clemens' Forest Products and Veneer plants in Philomath as head millwright until a work injury forced early retirement. source · 1941–1950
• 1980 — I was back there two weeks ago, three weeks ago; I took my neighbor up there to look at it. We built a dam up on top, too, by the nursery; we used to go swimming in there. source · 1971–1995
• 1980-02-06 — The following interview with Edward Sekermestrovich took place in Corvallis, Oregon on February 6, 1980. source · 1971–1995
• 1990 — [When Ed repeated this same statement to me over ten years later, his eyes were twinkling and he was grinning with obvious pride. BZ] source · 1971–1995
• 1990-08 — [EDITOR'S NOTE: I asked Mr. Sekermestrovich in August, 1990, if it was possible that the buildings were green. His wife said that she remembered them as green, and he agreed that they may have been that color.] source · 1971–1995

In the Series Index

• Sekermestrovich, Edward 08:107, 14:3