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La Verne Ford Wimberly Oral History, 2021/04/21

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Title (Dublin Core)

La Verne Ford Wimberly Oral History, 2021/04/21

Description (Dublin Core)

Mini oral history with La Verne Ford Wimberly from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Recording Date (Dublin Core)

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Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

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Type (Dublin Core)

Mini oral history

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Collection (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

4/23/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/23/2021
06/24/2021
08/25/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

4/21/2021

Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)

Kayla Phillips

Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)

La Verne Ford Wimberly

Location (Omeka Classic)

74008
Tulsa
Oklahoma
United States of America

Format (Dublin Core)

audio

Language (Dublin Core)

English

Duration (Omeka Classic)

00:02:13

abstract (Bibliographic Ontology)

Mini oral history with La Verne Ford Wimberly from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Transcription (Omeka Classic)

Kayla Phillips 0:03
My name is Kayla Phillips, and I'm an undergraduate student at ASU enrolled in History 494. The date is April 21, 2021, the time is 9:06AM, and I'm speaking with La Verne Ford Wimberly. I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience. But before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 Archive. The COVID-19 Archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?

La Verne Wimberly 0:37
Yes.

Kayla Phillips 0:38
Thank you. First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live?

La Verne Wimberly 0:46
Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly. I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I'm 82 years old.

Kayla Phillips 0:51
Okay, thank you. Now, I'd like to ask you a quick question about the pandemic. We've experienced a lot of changes in 2020, and many have been negative and disruptive. But perhaps, it's not all bad. What's one positive thing you've experienced during the pandemic?

La Verne Wimberly 1:09
There has been a coming together of various people by way of Zoom, I think, connect-- being connected by Zoom has really enhanced relationships with families, friends, and of course, other organizations that you might be associated with.

Kayla Phillips 1:27
Okay, what are the benefits that you've noticed personally with Zoom in your life?

La Verne Wimberly 1:33
Well, I have had an opportunity to reach further with family members that live out of state in Atlanta, Georgia, and also Arlington, Texas, and around the area where I would not have had a regular every Sunday Zoom time at five o'clock like I've had this year. Usually we kind of get together three or four times a year, but nothing on a weekly basis. So having come together on a weekly basis has been very inspirational to me and very informative, and I've loved it.

Kayla Phillips 2:05
That's good. It's always good to keep family connections because family is a very important thing in people's lives.

La Verne Wimberly 2:10
It is, yes.

Kayla Phillips 2:13
Thank you for your time today.

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This item was submitted on April 23, 2021 by Kayla Nicole Phillips using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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