Indiana University Studebaker Employee Interviews 1984 - 1985

[Bordeaux Daytona]

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/reference/cshm/ohrc097.html#21

I was doing a search and this site came up. I don't know if anyone has heard these before. It would be nice if they could be in a online digital format someday.
I guess you can buy copies of the tapes or transcripts.

http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/copycost.html

This project deals with the Studebaker Plant in South Bend, Indiana primarily between the 1930's and the 1960's, when it closed. The interviewees are employees from all levels, but the majority discuss the blue-collar aspect. They primarily discuss working conditions, the Local 5 union, management, ethnicities, women, World War II and its effects, and the decline and closing of the Plant.


Interviewees

Anderson, Jane

Anderson, Jane

Baum, Helen

Borsodi, Joe E.

Brodzinski, Harry

Brown, Clara

Burnett, Raymond, Jr.

Bush, Hugh; Bush, Irene

Crynes, Eugene

Danch, Elmer

Drabecki, Christine

Drabecki, Christine; Dzierla, Louise; Grayzck, Theresa; Nowicki, Mary; Schoonaert, Mary; VanDaele, Maryanne

Dundar, Ed G.

Ewing, Byron A., "Jack"

Fox, Lester

Gadowski, Martha

Hagenbush, Robert

Handley, Donald; Zielinski, Marion

Hesler, Helen T.

Kendziorski, Evelyn B.

Klausmeyer, Otto

Kowalski, Harry

Kowalski, James

Kuminecz, Joe

Kuminecz, Joe

MacMillan, Clifford

Megyesi, Doris; Megyesi, Stephen

Meszaros, Joe

Mucha, Irene

Nemeth, Frank

Newburn, Odell

Panzica, Joe

Paskiet, Casmer

Piechowiak, John M.

Poulin, Harry

Romine, Otis

Rosenbaum, Frank

Schoonaert, Mary

Sharp, Raymond D.

Sharp, Raymond D.

Sitarz, Frank

Speeks, Alyce

Stroup, Verna

Thompson, Carl

VanDaele, MaryAnne

Walters, Ray; Walters, Tillie

Warren, Margery

Wiand, Dale

Wolfram, Charles

Zenzinger, Theodore

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[Stu Chapman]

Neat! Does that bring back memories. Thanks for posting.

Stu Chapman

[studegary]

I notice a few names familiar to me (and people that I knew).
I knew that this study was done, but have not read the results.
Now that it is 30 years later, I can not imagine that any of these people are still with us.

[Studebaker Wheel]

Les Fox is still alive and I believe still working!

[StudeRich]

I wonder about Ted Zenzinger, he must have had a lot of good info about the last times of the Corp. in South Bend given his position as we read on the Last Car Papers string. Anyone know if he is alive?

[Stu Chapman]

I wonder about Ted Zenzinger, he must have had a lot of good info about the last times of the Corp. in South Bend given his position as we read on the Last Car Papers string. Anyone know if he is alive?

I highly doubt it. He was born in 1908! The only senior executive in South Bend still surviving that I am aware of is Ed Dunbar Jr., with whom I remain in regular touch. Ed was Corporate Controller of Studebaker Corporation and effectively was the last President of Studebaker of Canada, finally turning off the last light in 1972 when all parts and material was disposed of.

Stu Chapman