Rough Times

Oral histories collected by students in Advanced Placement US History and Advanced Placement English at Marion High School. The icon denotes Editor's Choice interviews.

• Ann Warr: Fairmount during the War
• Barbara Love: Family, Friends, Music, and Memories of the 1940s
• Betty Straughan: Growing Up in the Depression and War
• Johnnie Clayton: The Occupation of Germany
• Pauline Marler: Innocent Fun, Race Relations, and World War II
• Alice Chapman: An Army Nurse Meets a Tall Handsome Captain
• Glen Eltzroth: From the Glass Factory to War in Italy
• Harold and Millie Bowman: Hardships on the Home Front
• Betty Fleck: L'Chaim! Memories of Marion's Jewish Community
• Betty I. Pettiford: Growing Up in the Forties
• Cleome "Smokey" Young: Smokey's Memories of the Forties
• Edna May Johnston: Thumbing Through the Pages of the Yearbook - and More
• Jack "Bucky" Woodard: Home and Away and Home Again
• Jane Miltenberger: Life Was Good
• Joan Bowman: Pleasant Memories of the '40s
• Lurana Pulley: Life on the Farm - Without Modern Conveniences
• Margie Vice: Young and Married with World at War
• Marjorie Wonderly
• Milford Freeman
• Patsy Young
• Xen Stewart
• Joyce Maidenberg
• Manuel Mitchell
• Martha Blinn
• Crystal Calobrace
• Jerrold Greene
• Madonna Fowler
• Mary Jane Downing
• Martha Reed
• James Hulce
• Grace McGlothin
• Thomas Hale
• Ruth Carter Evans
• William and Donna Wampner:The War in New Guinea and Life at Home
• Barbara Eltzroth:Losing a Brother, Death of a Tail Gunner over Austria
• Daisy Freeman
• Elizabeth Meisberger
• Shirley Turnock: A Marion Teenager's Life during World War II
• Phil and Leah Wiley: Liberty Ship Duty and Rosie the Riveter
• Don Lewis: D-Day Plus Five and the Battle of the Bulge
• James Murrell
• Noble Jones: Segregation in WWII and the Mutiny at Cherbourg
• Malvina Ball: Meeting Hitler at the Circus
• Earl Gottschalk
• Betty Mottweiler
• Marjorie Elder
• Ella Foust
• Eva Haynes
• Elizabeth Stewart
• Walter Fisher
• Byron Tippey
• Minniellen Kirby
• Eunice Carey
• Betty Jane Wilson
• Alice Bunish
• Irene Beck
• Harold Thomson
• Jesse and Ann Ballard: Marion during the Great Depression
• Elton Vice:From Lucky Strike to POW
• Jack Druckemiller:V-12 and Destroyer Duty