Soap Creek Valley · Person
Maxine Dickey
Maxine Dickey— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
narratormentioned
Provenance
- Work
- School teacher - Berry Creek School (1938-1940), Airlie (1940-1942), Mountain View School, Lewisburg; genealogist
- Where this comes from
- #3 Donald Dickey, p. 58, narrator profile; #3 Donald Dickey, p. 58, contributors / front matter credit; SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #3 Donald Dickey, p. 1, p. 4, p. 10, p. 34, p. 39, p. 40, p. 54, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Dickey 1995), referenced as (Zybach and Vanderburg 1995), #03; the 1999 thesis, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, Appendix A, Table A.1 (monograph numbers and titles) and Table A.2 (page counts)
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Home site
Plotted at The Dickey Farm, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Sessions
- August 18, 1990 — Green Valley Care Center, Eugene, Oregon
Worked on
Where others mention them
Family named in the transcripts
Dates they give
- 1835 — I think that was 1835, wasn't it.
- 1938 — It was in 1938 when I went to apply for teacher at the Berry Creek School.
- 1938 — In 1938 there were 14 pupils, scattered among eight grades: Dolores, Lloyd and Herbert Beck; Mildred Goodin; Donald Lewis; Mabel, Mary Jane, Melvin and Morris McCoy; Emil, Emma May and Henry Parker; Billy and Ruth Vanderburg.
- 1939 — In 1939-40 only 10 children were enrolled: the three Becks, Don Lewis, the four McCoys, Billy Ennis and Wilfred Ray, who lived with Forrest and Mabel Tandy.
- 1940 — In the fall of 1940 the Berry Creek School closed because there weren't enough students.
- 1940 — I taught there for two years, 1940-42, when this area became part of Camp Adair.
- 1940 — In 1940, Clifford Stocker was the Airlie High School principal.
- 1942 — He had many contacts with Oregon State University during the years - helping out with rodent control problems, attending reunions and get-togethers with a number of life-long friends that had graduated with him in 1942.
- 1942 — This stove was most appreciated during the storm of 1942-43 when we had no electricity for a number of days.
- 1942-03 — Don and I were married in March, 1942, the second year I was at Airlie.
- 1943 — Early in 1943, I think it was February, Don was sent to Jackson County by the Fish and Wildlife Service to do Rodent Control on Camp White, which was being constructed near Medford.
- 1945 — Yeah, she was born in '45, so she's gonna be 45 in '90.
- 1969 — It was '69.
- 1990-08-18 — Interview conducted by Bob Zybach and Neil Vanderburg at the Green Valley Care Center, August 18, 1990, with Donald and Maxine Dickey.
- 1991-04-08 — Maxine Dickey Eugene, Oregon April 8, 1991
In the Series Index
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Maxine Dickey (person record).
- This page
- Soap Creek Valley: Maxine Dickey. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/people/maxine-dickey/
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