Zooming Back To History: Dr. Kimbery Jensen & WOU Students

March 9 – Dr. Kimberly Jensen – Featuring WOU History Students Natalie Joyce Montalvo, Ella Tenido, and Amanda Larios

Beyond Burth the Turtle and “Duck and Cover:” Preserving and Exhibiting Western Oregon University’s Cold War Fallout Shelter Materials

During the Cold War, the United States Office of Civil Defense provided supplies to local communities and institutions for fallout shelters in case of nuclear war. Western Oregon University staff saved some of these materials from the early 1960s in the basement shelter located in the Old Education Building on campus. Because the building will soon be replaced by a new student success center, History students selected representative samples of the materials to preserve and exhibit. They will share their experiences and discoveries and suggest what the artifacts from Western’s 1960s fallout shelter can teach us about the Cold War in mid-Willamette Valley history.

About the Speakers:

Kimberly Jensen is a Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War and Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism. She is completing a book project analyzing Oregon women, citizenship, and civil liberties in the early twentieth century. She is a board member of the Oregon Encyclopedia project and the Oregon Women’s History Consortium.

Natalie Joyce Montalvo is a History major with a Social Science minor at Western and volunteers with Western’s Hamersly Library Archives and the Independence Heritage Museum.

Ella Tenido graduated from Western with a Social Science major focusing on History and a minor in Public Policy and Administration. She will soon begin a Master’s program in Higher Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

Amanda Larios is a senior History major and Linguistics minor in the Honors program at Western. She is also a dedicated volunteer at the Willamette Heritage Center and regularly assists with WHC events and programming.

See all speakers in the series on the Zooming Back To History event page

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