Interview with Mary Ruth Stevens, September 17, 2018
Project: Scott County (Kentucky) Public Library: Scott County Stamping Ground Tornado of 1974 Oral History Project
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Julia Taylor interviews Mary Ruth Stevens, a former Stamping Ground Elementary School teacher and principal. Stevens discusses her life, her experience of the 1974 Stamping Ground tornado, her career in education, and her post-retirement work with the Georgetown & Scott County Museum.Interview Accession
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Georgetown and Scott County Musuem Schools Stamping Ground schools Stamping Ground tornado Third grade teachers First grade teachers Stamping Ground Elementary School Parent-teacher associations (PTAs) Bill Stevens Portable classrooms Southern Elementary School St. John Catholic School Cardome (Georgetown, Ky.) Long Like Pike Stamping Ground tornado of 1974 1974 Stamping Ground tornado Rockwell International Winchester (Ky.) Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) Renovations Hazel Green (Ky.) Red River Valley Elementary Wolfe County (Ky.)Interview Rights
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Stevens, Mary Ruth Interview by Julia Taylor. 17 Sep. 2018. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Stevens, M.R. (2018, September 17). Interview by J. Taylor. Scott County (Kentucky) Public Library: Scott County Stamping Ground Tornado of 1974 Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Stevens, Mary Ruth, interview by Julia Taylor. September 17, 2018, Scott County (Kentucky) Public Library: Scott County Stamping Ground Tornado of 1974 Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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