EVERT, Bertha Katherine Amanda

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• Name	EVERT, Bertha Katherine Amanda
  Birth	27 Feb 1859	Obendeich, Herrsfeldt, South Holstein, Prussia
  Christening	31 Mar 1859	Heiken, Holstein, Hennfield, Prussia
  Gender	Female
  WAC	15 Jul 1880	EHOUS
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  Death	27 Jun 1934	Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
  Burial	30 Jun 1934	Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
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  Family	KNUDSEN, Herman ,   b. 20 Aug 1856, Sveen Ostre, Løten, Hedmark, Norway Sveen Ostre, Løten, Hedmark, Norwayd. 31 Oct 1918, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 62 years)
  Children	+ 1. KNUDSEN, Benjamin Henry ,   b. 11 Dec 1887, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Provo, Utah, Utah, United Statesd. 9 Jun 1973, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 85 years)
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  Mother was a very beautiful woman all of her life. Women in her day stayed at home when raising a family. Later when she saw what we did when we were raising our little flock, she said if she had to do it over again, she would go as we did, to go S.S., church, Relief Society, and M.I.A., and entertainments too. Mother was my ideal as a youth and a young man. She raised us in a day when there were few conveniences i the home. Being the eldest I helped her all I could. i washed out diapers, washed dishes, helped in the house. I mixed bread for her as she lay in bed. I used to hurt me to see her work so hard but she was always cheerful, never remember hearing her complain. As I got older, I asked her once if she would have as large a family if she had it to do over again and she answered, yes and even larger because it brought the greatest happiness to her. I know now what she meant, for what she said came from her heart. She was and is a wonder character, just like your mother. I know of no one more noble than your own mother, my sweetheart. My mother as a girl worked at the Provo Woolen Mills. She worked at a loom or was a weaver. She worked on fancy patterns on worsted in her later girlhood, early part on woolen blankets. She was excellent in mathematics and could add up a column of figures very quickly and accurately. She wrote a very beautiful hand. She knew the old German script very well. All of her education (formal) was received in Germany, as she was 14 years old when she came here. She wrote good English but had trouble with the spelling. She did lots of fancy neele-work in her girl-hood as she had around home but didn't get a chance to do much after marriage. She used to knit all the stockings for her big family, she made our work shirts and pants though we had store-bot clothes for Sunday Father got her one of the first knitting machines and washing machines that ever came to Provo. I remember an old blacksmith who visited us shortly after we got these machines and he said, "What will the women do when they get these new fangled machines, etc., etc., etc." He was afraid they would be idle, but not with father. Nothing was too good for mother. Father was one of the first in Proveo to have electricity installed in the house. That was quite an advent. I remember it well. You know it is remarkable what has transpired in my short life span of 60 years. Well your grandfather was one of the first to put in the "new-fang-dangled things." Norma Jean Knudsen My Life History Home Economics 50 Home and Family Dr. Culter NORMA. JEAN KNUDSEN THE HOME AND FAMILY Term Paper UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SUMMER SESSION 1950 I first saw the light of day November 12, 1929 at Provo, Utah. I just missed the Armistice Day celebration of that year as I was born at 2 A. M. the morning of the 12th. By referring to the Salt Lake Tribune of Tuesday Nov. 12, 1929 I concluded that they must have made a big thing of Armistice Day at that time as Salt Lake and most of the cities of the state held big celebrations with parades, speeches, dances and a number of schools were dismissed for the day~ Some of the head­lines were, "Hoover Pleads for World Peace.", " High Officials of Government Pay Tribute at Grave of Unknown Soldier", Selling Outburst on Stock Exchange Batters Prices Down." This article stated that seventy stocks struck a new low level for 1929. It stated that for some unknown reason there was a sudden outburst of selling which sent the prices down on gilt edge stocks on the New York Stock Exchange today. From one article on schools it seems that Utah was having troubles fin­ancing its schools as it stated that some schools were short of funds, teachers were underpaid and that the school people wanted the $25.00 per capita state school fund used as an equalizing fund. They were considering distributing funds based on average daily attendance as some school districts were not enforcing school, attendance laws and were receiving as much money as those who were forcing children into school. The school conditions in Utah affected my family as my father was principal of the Springville High School. The Principal received more money than the teachers so my family was able to maintain a fair standard of living especially when compared with other teachers. Much of the news on the front page was concerned with national events such as, “Belgium Purifies Fire at Tomb of Unknown Soldier", "New Angles Develop Selection of International Bank Location" About 50% to 70% of the news on the front page dealt with news from outside of the United States. There was a big sports section in the paper with a great deal of space given to national and local events. “B. Y. U. wins Foot Ball Game with Coloradoans” B. Y. U. 25, Colorado Teachers 13. I imagine this news was well received by my father as he was a graduate of the B. Y. U. I have heard my father talk about the good times the country was enjoying before and about the time of my birth, how everybody was getting wealthy by buying stocks today and selling them next week at a big increase in price. He apparently got the fever like the rest but not having much money didn’t buy many stocks but did buy some and lost on them when the stock market crash came a few days after my birth. He said it was fortunate for us that he bought a home early in 1929 and paid an inflated price for it but even if it did go down in value it was not like losing it all on worthless stocks. I was born in Provo but my home was in Springville which is six miles to the South. Springville at the time of my birth was a typical little Utah town with a population of about 4500. It was neither rural nor urban but a village where a majority was farmers having small farms in the outlying areas and living in town for social and religious advantages. My home was two blocks from Main Street yet on our b1ock were three barns with as many or more animals living in them as there were people in the seven houses on the block. Most of the families had a garden and there were some fruit trees on most of the lots. I lived three blocks from the grade school, one half blocks from the high school, four blocks from the church and two blocks from the picture show and stores. Under these conditions we have many of the advantages of the farm and lots of the advantages of the city. Outside of a little community church with about twenty members all, the people were L. D. S. so I was reared under the influence of the church which maintained, I think, very high standards of behavior. Between the activities of the school and the church the time I could spend outside of my home was well taken care of. Sugar beets, cannery crops and livestock were the main agricultural products along with a sugar beet factory and a cannery made up the main industries and work of the people. Work in the sugar beet fields gave employment to young as well as old. The first money most small boys made was thinning beets at about 6 or 7 cents for a 40 rod (660 ft) row. Older boys would block the beets and later on weed them and other operations provided work for men. In the summer and fall most of the older girls and women worked in the cannery where they made pin money and often enough to buy clothes and especially spending money for the high school girls. Being the only girl in the family I never had the experience of working in the cannery or in the fields and often thought it would have been fun to do that kind of work along with the other girls. I did pick cherries two different times with a group of girls but because of the time it took to talk and giggle with the crowd and the quantity of cherries we ate there were not many pounds to weigh in at 1 1/2 cents a pound for picking them. By the name endings you could tell that most of the people of the town were Northern Europeans. I don't remember of there ever being a person other than of the White race living in the town so we had no racial problems at all. My guess would be that 90% of all the people were from the British Isles and the Northern European countries. Most of their ancestors had come to Utah for religion and to make their homes with the thought of living here and making of themselves permanent citizens of the United States. As a result of these ideals one of the first desires was to own a home and as a result the majority of the people did own their own homes. Most homes were modest brick houses without modern plumbing but as conditions bettered most homes were made modern. My genealogy goes back to the European countries. My grandfather Herman Knudsen was born in Hadenmarken Norway, a little farming community about 35 miles north of Oslo. He came to this country with his family when six years of age and arrived in Utah in 1862. His history records show that he, as a chi1d of six, walked across the plains from the Missouri River to Utah. His father homesteaded farm land west of Provo near the mouth of Provo River where my Grandfather worked all his life. He had no formal education but became highly educated through home study and the opportunities presented by his church. He of necessity had to be thrifty and saving to get a1ong in those early days and as a result accumulated a valuable farm of his own with a home in town so his family could enjoy the advantage of the city in its educational and cultural advantages. Not having had a formal education he realized its advantages and as a result had his children go to school as much as work on the farm would permit. My grandmother Bertha Katherine Amanda Evert Knudsen was born in Northern Germany in a family of Seaman. Her ancestors had followed the Sea for generations, her father being a Captain of a sai1ing vessel. Her father joined the L. D. S. church in England and one by one brought the family to New York. My grandmother came to America when she was thirteen and after working in Hoboken New Jersey for about a year came to Utah with her family and settled in Provo. Grand­mother had the finest education given in the German Schools of her day and was a very cultural and refined woman. While she had no formal schooling in America she adopted the ways, customs and language of her adopted land and you could not even detect a trace of foreign accent in her speaking. My grandfather on my mother's side, John George Parker, was born in England near London and came to Utah when about 26 years of age. He was soon sent to help establish a Mormon colony in Arizona, after being there for a few years he came back to Utah and was sent to help settle the Bear Lake country in Southeastern Idaho. He lived there the rest of his life where he became a successful farmer and took an active in church and community affairs. He held many church and civic offices being Town Councilman and member of the school board and held many church offices. It was there at Paris, Idaho that he met and married my grandmother, Mary Ann Adelia Hymas. She was born at Lanark, Bear Lake County, Idaho and lived in that area all her life where she became the mother of twelve children of which my mother was the fifth chi1d. She was an active church member especially working in the Relief Society of which she was president many years. She spent much of her life as a praotica1 nurse giving her time, as was the custom, without pay of any kind. My father, Ernest Earl Knudsen, was born at Provo, Utah Sept. 17, 1894, the seventh child of a family of nine, eight boys and one girl. He went through the grade schools in Provo, graduating from the eighth grade in 1910. He went through high school and college at the B. Y. U. graduating with an A. B. degree in 1917. He later attended Columbia University, New York City graduating in 1921 with a Master of Arts degree and the received the major professional certificate, Superintendent of Schools from Teachers College, Columbia University. Since graduation he has attended summer sessions at Columbia, B. Y. U. and University of Southern California. His entire life has been spent as a teacher and administrator. He started out as a sixth grade teacher in Beaver Utah, then went to Cowley Wyoming where he in the Big Horn Academy, an L. D. S. church school, then moved to Lovell Wyoming where he taught Vocational Agriculture for two years. While attending school at Columbia University he taught school on the lower East in New York City. After receiving his degree from Columbia he taught one year in the Middletown Township high school at Leonardo New Jersey and the next year was Principal of the school. He then became Superintendent of Schools at Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey for two years. In the summer of 1925 he moved back to Utah where he became Principal of the Springville High School whi.ch position he held for nine years, then moved to Spanish Fork Where he has been a principal and teacher to the present time. While traveling to Cowley Wyoming to teach he met my mother, Adelia Parker who was also going to teach in the same school, they went together that year and were married the next summer. They both taught at Lovell Wyoming, High School for two years. They then decided that Daddy should go on to school so they put all their belongings in two suit cases and started for New York City. On Jan. 9, 1922 my twin brothers Robert (Bob) Ernest Knudsen and William (Bill) Herman Knudsen were born at Leonardo, Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. My Father has always had the hobby of traveling and about every summer would take the family on some extended trip or would go off to summer school and take us along for a vacation. I believe these vacation trips influenced my life more than any other thing as a child. My Father was baptized a member of the L. D. S. church when he was eight years old and has been an active member ever since. He has gone through priesthood up to and including the office of Seventy. He has been a teacher in the Sunday Schools for many years and has been a Stake officer in the M. I. A. for about 20 years and has worked with the Boy Scouts for a number of years. My father has always been active in civic affairs. He has taken part in all kinds of community drives, helped with parades and celebrations. He has been an active member of Kiwanis for the past 25 years, having served as president of the Springville and Spanish Fork clubs and has held various offices in those clubs throughout the years. During the past war my father was perhaps one of the most active home war workers in Spanish Fork. He held eight different kinds of war work jobs such as, Chairman of the Ration Board, Secretary of the Red Cross, Rent Director, Farm Labor Board, War Bond Committee, Chairman of Infantile Paralysis Drive, conducted war stamp sales to students in schools and was Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. I can well remember how people would come to our place all hours of the night and day to get ration stamps for gas, tires, shoes or to get Red Cross favors such as telegrams sent to a son in the servile, or to get leaves of absence for a serviceman when there was a death in the family or to help some stranded soldier to get back to camp on time or to supply help to some farmer who was up against it for help, or to find a house to rent for some family who had come a distance to work at Geneva steel. He was too old to go to war so was trying to do his bit by this homework. These activities led me to realize just what a person might do in a practical way in the practice of useful citizenship. My mother, Adelia Parker Knudsen, was born Dec. 28, 1894, at Lanark, Idaho, and was the daughter of John and Mary Adelia Hymas Parker. Her father was a farmer so she learned and did about everything there was to do on a farm. Even before she started to school they had her out in public "speaking pieces" and all during her life she said she was forever speaking pieces, taking parts in plays, stunts, operas and etc. Mother's schooling consisted of going through the grade schools, a church high school, graduated from the Utah Agricultural College (now Utah State University) with B. S. degree and attended summer school at the U. of U. Of her school days my mother writes, " During my elementary school days there seems to have been no outstanding achievements other than the fact that I was always speaking pieces and having a good time playing with school mates High school days were delightful, in which I took part in school plays, operas and other extracurricular activities. I especially liked dancing and was very active in physical education and during my senior year conducted all of the girl's dancing classes. In college I took my Major in Home Economics and a Minor in Dramatic Art and Physical Education". My mother taught school for three years then the twins were born, but she even coached a play a few months before they made their appearance. During her teaching she not only directed plays but combined them with dancing exhibits and other physical activities. She has always been an active church member, participating actively as a child in Primary, Religion Class, and Sunday School and Mutual in which she took parts in plays, choruses, programs, parades, etc. From 1917 this is her church record: Ward and Stake choir member, Ward Dance leader, Ward Relief Society Literary Leader, Ward Mutual President, Stake Ladies Chorus member, Stake Activity Leader, Stake Dance Leader for fourteen years, Stake Junior Leader, Ward Primary teacher and Song Leader and Stake President of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association. Her civic activities have been many and varied. She has been an active member of the Federated Women's Clubs since 1925; has belonged to two and held every office in, them up to and including the President; has been President of the Spanish Fork Federated Women's Council, Second Vice President in the Nebo First District, and is now Utah State Historian in the Utah State Federation. She also has organized and been advisor to three Junior Federated Clubs of about seventy-five young women. Other offices are: President of City Republican Club, Utah County Republican Vice-Chairman, Program Chairman P.T.A., Civilian Recruiting Officer of WAAC during World War II., Member and Parliamentarian of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Legislative Chairman and Girl's State Chairman of the Local American Legion Auxiliary, and a Director of the District American Association of University Women. During the five years my brothers were in the service, World War II., my Mother worked in the Red Cross, knitting, Sewing, making folded dressings, etc. went on Bond drives, and sent many packages overseas. During these worried years, my Mother, Daddy and I wrote to the boys every day for the first year and every other day for the rest of the time and it brought the War very close to home, and perhaps made me a little more serious and hastened my maturity. The record in my baby book shows that I was born in a maternity home; weight was 6 pounds and 4 ounces. I made regular gains in weight until I was twenty-two pounds at the age of two years. Had my first tooth at six months and was creeping at nine months. I took my first steps at ten and a half months and was running around at eleven and a half months; was twenty inches tall at birth and made steady growth until I was thirty-two and a half inches at two years of age. I had no illness as a child other than whooping cough so as far I can find out I had a normal childhood. I was rather small for my age as a child due to heredity but this did not seem to cause me any worry. I entered the age of puberty rather later than my girl friends as I was near 15 years when the change came. My Mother had prepared me and my girl friends had talked about what happened. It was fortunate that we had a very dear teacher in the seventh grade physical education class who explained the physiological changes to us in & nice way which helped very much. At this time I became rather shy around the boys and would not behave like the other girls around them so as a result I became a little unpopular with my immediate crowd of boys. At this time I grew rather fast and became larger than most of my friends which was rather disturbing to me which seemed to influence my social standing. My birthday coming in November as it did I was not allowed to enter school until I was nearly seven years of age so this made me nearly a year older than my school mates. During the past five years my health and vigor has been very good especially since entering college where I have been able to make better social adjustments than I did in high school. I had no interruptions in my school experience with the exception of missing three months during my junior year in high school due to pneumonia. I worried a great deal about this at the time but on account of an almost perfect attendance before the illness and the sympathetic help of faculty members I made up the work and passed in all my subjects. I seemed to get along very well in all the grades in school, enjoyed my work very much, received good grades and liked all of my teachers. All of my schooling was in graded schools with well prepared and experienced teachers. My third grade was the one outstanding teacher. She had such an excellent way in explaining the fundamentals of school problems that I received a good foundation which helped me throughout my school life. I always received an "A" grade in my school work which may not have been based altogether on my ability but may have been received because I always tried to cooperate with my teachers and was never known to be unprepared. I was usually assigned parts in school plays, operas and programs as a reward for my willingness to work and put forth my best effort. As a supplement to my formal education I took piano lessons and always had good books and magazines in my home to read. The greatest aid to my education was the summer vacation trips I took with the family. The following is a written report I made upon the return of a trip taken in 1941 when I was eleven years old. "In 1941 Mother, Daddy and I took a grand trip in which we went almost all over the U. S. and in three foreign countries. We went by train from Salt Lake to Detroit Michigan. The train ride took us through the following states, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. We got a new car in Detroit and then went to Canada and ever to Niagara Falls. We saw the lights at night playing on the falls. This was beautiful. Then we went to my Uncle Harold's place in Ellensburg New York and what fun I had with Cousin Margret. From there we went to Montreal and Quebec Canada where we saw the interesting sights. We were fortunate to be in Quebec during a religious celebration among the French people. It was nice. A guide took us through many narrow streets and showed us the old city wall, the Plains of Abraham, the Hotel Frontebac which cost 23 million dollars and many other interesting sights. We went down through Maine to Old Orchard Beach where I had my first swim in the Atlantic Ocean. It was cold water in Maine. We went through New Hampshire to Massachusetts and stayed in Boston a week while Daddy attended the N.E.A. convention. Around Boston we saw many places connected with the revolutionary war and I also saw Louisa Alcott’s home where she wrote Little Women. Next we went through Conn. and down to New York City, saw the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Wall Street, Trinity Church, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, The Bowery and other points of interest. This was a happy week then we went up the Hudson River to West Point to visit friends. My, this was formal visiting a Colonel. Now we went to New Jersey where my twin brothers were born and to the places where my Daddy taught school and was Superintendent. We saw all the interesting things in Philadelphia such as Independence Hall, The Liberty Bell, Christ Church, home of Betsy Ross, etc. Then through Maryland to Washington D.C., I visited such points as the Capitol, White house Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Pan American Building, Red Cross, Library of Congress, went to a session of Congress in Senate and House, saw Ford's Theatre where Lincoln was killed. We then went out to Mt. Vernon - this is beautiful, then we followed the Atlantic coast down to Miami, Florida. We stayed at a beautiful hotel right on the beach and I went in the ocean every day. FUN. FUN. FUN. We met some real southern people and it was fun to hear them say, “shu nuf honey.” From Miami we sailed on the steamship, 'Florida' to Havana, Cuba where we stayed for three days seeing many interesting things. We then went up the west coast of Florida around the Gulf of Mexico, across to El Paso, Texas where we crossed over to Juarez, Mexico, had dinner and did some shopping. We then went across Arizona to San Luis Obispo, California where we visited with my two brothers who were in the army. We continued up the coast of California to San Francisco, then across Nevada and back home again to dear old Utah and to Spanish Fork. Our trip took us far and we visited 28 states and three foreign countries but boy, oh boy out of all the places we visited - Utah looked the best to me." From infancy and all through my life it seems that I have had a desire to do what was right and good. It always appeared to me that doing right brought pleasure and the opposite brought sorrow. I don’t know about other people but my conscience must be a very strong guide for me. As a child if I ever was tempted to so some little wrong my conscience bothered me so much I was very uncomfortable. I often wondered why some of my friends would act as they did, for example as a group we may have done something or gone some place and some of them would go home and tell a lie about it when the truth would have been better. It just didn't occur to me to be dishonest with my parents, perhaps it was because they placed confidence in me and I tried not to break that relationship. I don't remember of ever being punished for doing wrong and don't know if I would have been whipped if I had been caught doing wrong. I always felt free to talk things over with my parents and it may be that their instructions in these talks had an influence on me. When I think about it I may have done many bad things but they were never held against me by my parents. I am sure my Sunday School and Primary teachers had a great influence on me in my moral development as the moral stories they told and the instructions given impressed me very much and I at least believed in the things they told me. I was born of L. D. S. parents, my ancestors were all church members and I have never been under any other than religious influence and surroundings. It has always been a pleasure and a joy for me to work in the church organizations and the things taught me have been agreeable to my way of thinking. My parents have taken a broad minded point of view concerning religion and have been very tolerant toward other religions, this is no doubt due to the fact that they lived in the East for a number of years and worked in other churches. I can recall several times when I have been perhaps fanatical about my religion they have caused me to take a more tolerant point of view. Since being in college I have lived with girls of other religions and have learned something of their teaching which I consider are very good and I can see value in their church services I have attended. I think that the Church, next to my home, has been the greatest factor in influencing my life and actions. My mother being a college graduate with a major in Home Making, I imagine I was raised according to the "Book." According to some notations in my baby book I was on a very rigid schedule for eating and sleeping and as I remember all through my life there were certain foods which I was supposed to eat every day such as a glass of milk each meal and always at least a certain amount of protein and some green vegetables every day. Mother tells that as a very small child I would come in from play several times a day, undress, take a bath, dress up again and go out without saying anything to her. We have always lived in a nice home, my father being in professional work always dressed up and was clean, and my mother was never known to let her housework go undone so I have always lived in an atmosphere of cleanliness. The types of people who have been in our home placed an emphasis on proper manners so these have never been much of a problem to me. (I wonder if the rush and problems of college life have changed me?) I was always made to get in the required amount of sleep with a little time added for good measure. Mother relates one evening as a little girl I was sitting on the floor getting undressed and kept repeating, “a waste of time, a waste of time”, after shaking my head and saying this several times mother asked, “What is a waste of time?' I replied, “Sleep.” I felt that life was so interesting there was no time in it for sleep. I have always belonged to a group of some kind and at times have belonged to several groups. As a child we had our neighborhood group of children to play with and went to each other’s homes for birthday parties. I never missed a year as a child without having a birthday party with a cake and all of the trimmings and my friends in for a social affair. When I come to think of it this was not only as a child but continued right through high school and the past two years in college where mother sent each year a decorated birthday cake. These cakes were soon disposed of by a group of girls in the dormitory and sorority house. I always belonged to a special crowd in grade school which had parties, played together at recess and walked home together after school. We had a large house with a playroom in the basement where the group met for most any occasion. Mother usually had some treat or refreshments of some kind for the crowd which made our place that much more popular. Not having any brothers or sister near my age I can see where this helped fill in my desire for companionship and is perhaps the reason why I was always seeking the companionship of a crowd and enjoyed so much having friends in my home, One girl used to spend as much time at our house as she did at home, she was from a large family and was perhaps happy to be away from the routine of a large family group. Starting with junior high school we had, rather an exclusive crowd which have stayed very closely together until the present time. There was a corresponding crowd of boys who were invited to our parties and with whom we danced and carried on other social activities. I rather resented the exclusiveness of the group and tried to be friendly with everyone which sometimes brought resentment against me from our group. I have often wondered and questioned if the ones I tried to befriend really appreciated what I was trying to do for them. Ever since a child in school I have attended social dances and have always enjoyed them. We were taught social dancing once a week, all three years in junior high school and I had some instruction in dancing through the L. D. S., M. I. A. I have no difficulty in carrying on a conversation with my friends but I don't feel that I have any special skill in that field and no special training other than my regular school work and the opportunity I have had of associating with well read and educated people. In being around and in helping my mother with the many and varied social functions she has carried on in our home I feel that I know many of the social graces and have at least seen how various social functions are carried out. I can play a few card games fairly well but have never belonged to a card club or associated with a crowd that plays cards so have developed no special skill with card games. Teachers of school and church groups in conducting parties and group activities have had more influence on me than others outside of my immediate family. One woman in town who is considered the social leader has talked to me a great deal and I believe she has influenced me socially more than any one person other than my family. Unfortunately I never have had much earning experience. My father has always had a good income and being the only daughter I never of necessity have had to work to earn money. I have always envied the girls who had jobs and earned money not that I wasn't given what money I needed but I always thought it would be fun to earn and have your own money to spend. I worked for a while two summers picking cherries and while I didn't make much money it was fun to be with the crowd, get up a five A. M., ride to work in the truck, eat lunch with the crowd at noon, have the boys call to you from the next tree and etc. It was a very enjoyable experience. I worked as a waitress in a local cafe for about ten days but didn’t enjoy this type of work very much. It didn't appeal to me as very high class work and some of the remarks made by some of the men were not very edifying. While I never have earned very much money I learned the value of money and the care with which it should be spent and the value of saving. These values have perhaps been of more value to me in economic preparation than earning money would have been. Ever since I was a small child I have wanted to be a school teacher and have never changed my attitude. In play school with the kids of the neighborhood, I was always the teacher. It was a common thing for me to have a group of children around me telling them a story or going through the motions of a teacher in our play acting. I have been an assistant to the teachers in Primary and Sunday School and enjoyed that type of work very much. My choice was no doubt influenced by the fact that both of my parents had been and are teachers. I always admired my teachers and thought it would be nice to have people think of me like I thought of them. As I grew older the work of a teacher appealed to me because of the hours they worked, no work on holidays, Saturday, Sunday or night shifts, pleasant work, under comfortable working conditions, dressed up work, chance to associate with high class people, opportunity to learn in work done, chance for advancement, long vacations in which to carry out hobbies, good salary schedule and. pension system. In preparation for this vocation I entered the school of education at the U. of U. and am taking the required work and as many courses as possible which will prepare me for this profession. I have tried to develop the type of character and establish the kind of habits which should be required of people who deal with the education of children or adults. The persons who comprise my family group are my father, mother, twin brothers their wives and three nieces. My mother's people all live great distances away so I have very little contact with them. In fact, the only time I see them is about every other year when we have a family reunion. That however, is a happy occasion because when that family gets together they really do have a delightful time. Most of the children are talented and they can whip up a program in a very few minutes. Even the older people respond and there wil1 be musical numbers, readings, and even jig dancing. This comprises quite a group of eleven uncles and aunts and forty-five children and grandchildren. On my father's side I have four (living) uncles, four aunts and twelve cousins who live in Provo with whom we have quite close contact. These comprise my family group with whom I have some association. My two grandfathers had both passed away before I was born and Grandmother Knudsen died when I was five years of age and the wonderful memory I have of her is that of eating the little snacks she always had for me and how beautiful she was w1th her snowy white hair. My grandmother Parker died when I was in the eighth grade and I felt this loss greatly because Mother went up to Idaho and stayed with her the last twenty-eight days of her life and Daddy and I were all alone. Each day seemed lonelier and I realized then that it is perhaps best for children to have their family around them. I have only one cousin near my own age and she has lived in New York all her life. Her family came to Utah to live just last year so now I have the opportunity for the first time in my life to associate with a relative my own age. I enjoy this very much and can see what I have missed by not having a sister or someone near that I could share my secrets with and talk over very intimate girl problems that only relatives are interested to listen to and help salve them with you. , Mother was always very active in civic, church and club affairs which took a great deal of her time away from the home. When she did anything it had to be done perfectly regardless of the amount of time it took as a result her time and attention were given to these outside affairs to the neglect of her home duties. The result was that she expected father to assume the role of, "Chief cook, dish washer and general housekeeper." He did well at it but no father is a mother. I have often heard him say that if he "hadn't been able to cook we would all have starved to death long ago." Father wanted mother to be his private secretary and do his work while he did other things much more to his liking which didn't fit in with her idea of the role to be played by a society lady and community worker. Both parents had special activities outside of the home. Father being high school principal was always tied up with school activities, football games, basketball, school dances, plays, operas and many and varied other school activities. He worked with boy scouts, which took lots of time, always taught classes in Sunday School, priesthood meetings and M. I. A. He was active in Kiwanis, which took one night a week. His hobby was fishing and hunting but due to the limitation of the season this didn't take too much time. Mother had about as many church activities as father did and spent a great deal of time with, "Women’s Literary Club work. She held office 1oca11y and was also working with the district and state club organizations. Mother was quite an expert at making up toasts and verses and it seems like she was forever giving toasts or some woman was at our place having her make up some verses or I saying for some occasion. I am not aware of any major areas of agreement or disagreement between my parents. If they quarreled very much I must not have been around as I was not aware of many disagreements. They seemed to work together well, neither one took the attitude of being boss. They had a joint bank account and both wrote checks without questioning each other as to how the money was being spent on regular items. On business matters they always talked things over. Father has been quite a shrewd business man and mother seemed to trust his ability so they have never had many business worries. I think the general attitude of my parents toward each other has been one of love, trust and cooperation. My parents to a very great extent have shared most activities both in the home and outside of the home. Father was never, "Lord of the Castle", as some men try to be. If there was work to be done both pitched in and did it. Father would wash the dishes if mother had to hurry off some place. It was not a case of one asking, or coaxing, or demanding that the other help or do things, it seemed that each had the desire to do things without pressure being brought to bear. Each had their activities outside the home but unless there was something special to do outside, they were home. They always took their vacations together and seem to enjoy the same kind of activities. Summer travel has been their many vacation activity and they have always taken these trips together, taking the children along with them. Looking at the relationship between my parents from the vantage point of my present maturity I consider their marriage to have been happy. I feel that I have always been very close to my parents. As a child I was happy with them and pleased that they were my parents. I was happy that I was not like one of my childhood playmates who was unhappy with her parents and used to say, " I wish I was your mother's little girl.” As I look at my childhood they must have tried to put in practice the psychology they learned in school as they tried to make me feel that I was someone worthwhile and gave me some consideration. From an early age they let me do a certain amount of choosing. For example, when I was to have & new dress mother would decide and the kind and type of dress which would be suitable and from this group I was allowed to make a choice. I can see now that she tried to build up confidence in my own judgment and bit by bit I was allowed to make my own decisions not only in choice of clothes but in my own personal affairs. As a result of this training I learned to consult with her to get approval and her opinion on the problems I had to face, thus I had her advice by request rather than having her decisions thrust upon me. In the matter of money my father gave me an allowance which was mine to save or spend and if I made blunders it was my loss without being censored by my parents. I can see where there has been a gradual change; with them letting me become more and more independent. In personal affairs I have drifted more away from my father put have come closer to my mother and I feel perfectly free to discuss any problem with her. My twin brothers caused a unique situation in my family. They received quite a bit of attention from people because they were twins, thus I learned that I couldn't hope to receive all of the attention. They influenced me with the attitude that all boys are big teasers. They would tease me and we would have much fun together. I remember I was rather embarrassed and felt inadequate when they teased me because I couldn't tie my shoe laces alone when I was small. They helped me to develop the idea to expect all boys to be kind to me. They usually treated me if I were a princess. My one brother didn’t have a steady girl in high school so when he wanted to go to a picture show he would take me along, treat me like a girl friend buy-me a malt or some treat afterward. My brothers were in the National Guard when war was declared. They were among the first to go in the service. I missed my brothers very much when they went to war. My mother, father and I lived in fear and anxiety while they were gone. I developed a fear of telegrams because one of my brothers was overseas in the thick of battle so long and we were always frightened that a telegram might be a notice of his death. I learned to hate war and fighting as it took two persons I loved very much away from me. When they came home on furloughs I was always very excited and thrilled to see them. My father being a school principal and the family all being good church people we maintained a rather high moral code. At times I rather felt the pressure of this standard as it was much higher than some of my friends. I especially noticed it in relation to my school work. I worked hard for good marks and when I receive them my friends said it was just the teachers showing favoritism because I was the principal's daughter. It was quite a vicious circle, the harder I worked the higher my marks, the higher my marks the more the pupils thought I was being favored. I learned through that experience that when you have a unique position you usually receive unique treatment. There has never been any other than members of my family live in our home so I have never had the experience of associating with that type of person. The general emotional tone of my home throughout the years has been one of love, kindness and consideration. I always felt that I was a, "wanted' child." and that my parents were living and maintaining a home for me as well as for themselves. I felt that their home and lives weren't just for me and that they had some, rights and that I had my duties toward them. As far as I know I had normal relationship with my peers of my own sex during childhood, adolescence and early maturity. I was not conscious of the opposite sex during childhood but very much disturbed by their attitudes during adolescence but made a normal adjustment during early maturity. In my marriage plans I have tried to conform to the mores of the times and especially the home town of Spanish Fork. I publicly announced my engagement last February and am having, in the near future, a tea revealing the wedding date. I will have, as is the custom at home, a wedding reception held in the church at which my friends, neighbors and most of the town will be invited. I have assembled an adequate trousseau so as to be able to start up housekeeping. I believe that my major strengths are to be morally clean and pure at all costs. I have that strength to refrain from using tobacco and liquor and I try to refrain from going to places where things like this are used. I try to be friendly to people and I always try to be very nice to people. When I start something I usually keep at the task until it is completed. I have trained myself to miss some pleasures in order to get my school work and other work done on time. 1 think that some of my weaknesses are to think of myself before I think of others. Sometimes I exhibit my temper more than I should I am seeking to learn to control my temper more. Sometimes I am too sensitive and have my feelings hurt much too easily. I am too naive and I believe most everything anybody tells me. It is very hard for me to tell when people are teasing me; therefore my feelings are often hurt when they need not be.   Bibliography 1. Salt Lake Tribune of November 12, 1929 2. My Baby Book 3. My Life History 4. My Father’s Life History 5. My Mother's Life History 6. My Grandparents Life Histories 7. Interviews with my Mother and Father 8. My Scrapbooks 9. My Diaries 10. My Mother's Scrapbooks 11. Our Family's Genealogy Records.