Oral history interview with Thelma Egertsen Weight
Scope and Contents
Contains an interview of Thelma Egertsen Weight by Virginia Poulsen on June 29, 1983. Includes two cassette tapes, handwritten notes, a 40-page typescript, and a 24-page draft of typescript. Thelma talks about her grandparents emigration from Denmark, her father's profession, her education, seeing Rachmaninoff play in the tabernacle, George H. Brimhall's lectures, faculty of Brigham Young University, her teaching at Provo High School, her courtship with her husband, adopting a boy, her Church callings, working as a bookkeeper with her husband, her husband's death in 1970, her service in the Council of Aging and her travels. The last few pages of the interview are available only on the draft, not on the final typescript.
Dates
- 1983
Creator
- Weight, Thelma Egertsen, 1898-1992 (interviewee, Person)
- Poulson, Virginia Booth, 1909-1995 (interviewer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Oral history interview with Thelma Egertsen Weight must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Thelma Egertsen Weight was born in Provo, Utah on October 5, 1898. She married a doctor named Jesse Weight and worked for 13 years as his bookkeeper. She adopted a boy and a girl. She passed away in February 1992 in Utah.
Extent
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Donated to Special Collections in 2007.
Appraisal
LDS, Utah, and Western American women (20th century Western ∓ Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.V, 2007).
- Title
- Register of Oral history interview with Thelma Egertsen Weight
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lucy Brimhall
- Date
- 2013 February 15
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States