Item Detail
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Partridge, Ruth Louise
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1898-1981
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UA OH 40; MSS P. 173
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Ruth Louise Partridge oral history interview; Ruth Partridge photograph collection
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Ruth Partridge was born on December 22, 1898 to Ernest DeAlton and Elizabeth (Truman) Partridge. Her father was a teacher in Provo. He and his class surveyed the Y when it was built on the mountain. Ruth attended nurse's training in California. She wrote a book about her experiences called Adventures with the Lamp which was suppressed in New York because doctors and nurses in that state objected to her portrayal of hospitals. During World War II Ruth tried to join the U.S. Army but she was turned down because she had written and published a book. Ruth wrote for a newspaper in Provo called the Journal. She enjoyed success with her column Minutia, but the newspaper was short-lived. Ruth then wrote for the Provo newspaper, The Herald, but later was fired for an unknown reason. Ruth shared her musical talents by playing the piano at public locations such as the State Mental Hospital and the Senior Citizens Center.
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This record is a seventeen-page typescript of an interview held with Ruth Louise Partridge on December 18, 1980. The subject of the interview was Reminiscences of Brigham Young University. She discusses the history of her father during much of the interview. No biographical data on her life is given, nor dates to help the reader approximate the time periods of the topics she discusses. She describes experiences she had while attending Brigham Young High School and Brigham Young University. Ruth lived in Knightville, Utah, a mining town, during part of her life and discusses the atmosphere there. She describes nursing during World War II and relates an experience using Sulpha, a new wonder drug at the time, on a patient with a ruptured appendix. She mentions getting married twice, but no names of her husbands or any children are found in the record. In the interview Ruth discusses her experiences with BYU notables Ernest Wilkinson, George Brimhall, Franklin Harris, and Alice Louise Reynolds. MSS P. 173: This is a collection of photographs formerly in the possession of Ruth Louise Partridge. Many items are the actual photographs, others are photocopies of the originals. The collection includes portraits of individuals, groups, families, businesses, and items relating to Brigham Young University. Most of the items are identified and in either good or fair condition. An inventory of the photographs describing quantity, type and size, description of contents, quality of image, box, folder, and item number is available in the collection.