Gift of John Mulcahy, February 2007 (Lib. Acc. 26178).
Mary Willett left her teaching position in New Haven, Connecticut, in January 1944 to work at Swan Island Kaiser Child Service Center in Portland, Oregon, which opened in November 1943. Willett served as senior teacher for the five-year-old day group at the Swan Island center. Many were children of women working in the shipyard building tankers for use in World War II. The Kaiser centers served children ages eighteen months to six years in three shifts around the clock.
Mary Willett papers, Coll 366, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Previously cataloged as Accession 26178.
Collection consists of brochures and other publications, news clippings, correspondence, teaching materials, and photographs of students, as well as documents related to Mary Willett's employment at the Swan Island Kaiser Child Service Center, and her reminiscences written in 1993.
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