Eleze Butler Coffman interviewed by Edie Butler

From 1951 or ???52 until 1957 (listed in 57-58 catalog as Junior Librarian) Eleze was assistant librarian at HSU and for most of that time was librarian of the college elementary school. Eleze and Edie were both attending a community history workshop sponsored by the _____ Community History Project, when Eleze mentioned that she has once been assistant librarian at HSU. Knowing the opportunities to interview people away from the Humboldt Bay Area were limited Edie asked Eleze if she would consent to be interviewed. Edie used part of the workshop time which was intended for a practice oral interview and she was able to arrange for use of a recorder and tape. Copies of this tape will be included with the other workshop tapes and held at Feather River College in Quincy and in Colusa County. Mrs. Coffman describes the college in a period of transition, because of the growth of the college itself and because of the post war era. The interview was ended a bit abruptly and perhaps prematurely by the time limits of the workshop. After the recorder was turned off she remembered to mention the salary she had earned. Her starting salary was 358 dollars a month by 1957 she was earning 376 dollars a month, she added that she turned down a county job because the pay was less.Edie Butler interviewing Eleze Butler Coffman for the Humboldt State University Oral History Project on February 4, 1984, in Williams, California