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Beverley Cornish Oral History
Publication date: 17 July 2024
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title:
Beverley Cornish Oral History
creator:
Cornish, Beverley L. (Place) (1920 May 21 - )
subject:
Civilian
description:
Beverley L. Cornish (formerly Place) was born and raised in Mandan, North Dakota on May 21, 1920 with her parents and two brothers. She graduated high school in 1937 at the age of 16, after which she worked at a clinic for two years before deciding to go to college at North Dakota State. There, she studied Social Studies, History, and English in preparation for teaching. During her junior year of college, she travelled to Washington, D.C. after working for underprivileged children on behalf of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Although she never liked the coasts, which she saw growing up since her father worked with the Northern Pacific, she loved D.C. from the start. After that trip, she considered taking the Civil Service exam and moving, which she ended up doing to make some money before her final year in college. Cornish moved to D.C. but never took the Civil Service exam and moved around departments for a year before settling down to the Army Navy Electronics Production Agency, primarily working for the Manhattan Project. She became one of 350 expeditors who were responsible for procuring communication supplies - like registers - for ships deployed in the South Seas. She worked at the agency until the end of World War II in 1945, at which time she left Washington and returned home. She got married a few years later to a Navy man, and they had four sons together. They lived in several different places as a family and eventually settled in Helena, Montana in 1962. A transcript of this interview is available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Scott, Kate M.
date:
2004-05-07
type:
Audio
format:
CD
identifier:
190; 2004.190
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
592074
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945) | 1942-45
rights:
Unrestricted