Clarke Weigle and Joan Weigle
Recorded
January 15, 2022
Archived
January 15, 2022
40:24 minutes
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Id:
mby021375
Description
Clarke Weigle (63) shares a conversation with his mother, Joan Weigle (92), about Joan’s childhood, her mother and father, her husband, her children, and her career.Subject Log / Time Code
JW talks about where she was born and about her siblings.
JW talks about her father and about how he came to serve in the Navy and how she met his wife, CW’s mother.
JW talks about her mother’s upbringing.
JW talks about the different places where she and her family lived while she was growing up, including Connecticut, California, New Jersey, among other places.
JW and CW talk about living in Bermuda for four years, where CW’s father studied underwater acoustics.
JW talks about the ways that CW reminds her of her father. She also talks about stories that her parents would tell.
JW describes what it was like being the mother of four children during the 1960s.
JW talks about going back to college to finish her degree in child development.
JW talks about creating a daycare program for teen mothers.
JW remembers the article she wrote for the magazine Young Children.
JW talks about a cross-country bike trip that her husband went on after he retired.
CW talks about his experience being the youngest child in the family.
Participants
- Clarke Weigle
- Joan Weigle