Beatrice Louise Pool-Zobel (Belu)

Een speciaal plekje voor mijn korte leuke contact met haar


Inleiding en wat er aan vooraf ging

 

 

 

 

Ik was ergens een foto tegengekomen en ik probeerde erachter te komen wie er opstond. Het was deze:

Ik zag dat de foto was gemaakt voor het huis en de winkel van Roelf Pool en zijn vrouw Derkje Bos in Warffum. De man bleek een kleinzoon van William Pool die in dat huis geboren was. Hij heet William Mergler Pool.
Tante Berta vertelde mij dat.

Er dook een tweede foto op met diezelfde man. Vermoedelijk ook in Warffum genomen of in Uithuizen.
(Die foto staat verderop in de tekst)
William, of eigenlijk Bill Mergler Pool kwam kort na de oorlog zijn Nederlandse roots verkennen samen met zijn achternicht Ethel Mae Reenders.
Verder kwam ik er niet mee al kon ik vrij eenvoudig de dochters vinden van deze Bill Pool, via zoekmachines en ook met behulp van een verwante Pool in de VS die mij zijn opsomming stuurde van recente familieleden. Alleen de echtgenote van William Mergler Pool vond ik niet.
Een van de dochters van Bill Pool was nogal prominent aanwezig in Duitsland. Een zeer bekende professor genaamd Beatrice Pool-Zobel. Ik besloot haar te mailen en te proberen met haar in contact te komen.
Enfin ik kreeg geen reactie. Keer op keer probeerde ik het met lange tussenpozen, en eindelijk kreeg ik respons.

Zie hier wat er gebeurde:

13-12-2004

Dear Mrs. Pool,

I promised you I would not write again, but this weekend I found a picture that made me change my mind. I add it to this email so you can see what I mean. You will probably recognize your father (if I am right that you are indeed his daughter). The picture was taken in 1946, right after the war. He paid a visit to his family in the Netherlands and he found his roots. He was accompanied by Ethel Mae Reenders. She lost her husband John Russell Riddell. He was an American pilot who was shot when he did his work in 1945 in the air over Luxembourg.

The people on the picture are from left to right:

Annechien Hut (*1885), Roelf Pool (*1886), Sieverdina Pool (*1894), William Mergler (Bill) Pool (* 1918 (living)), Ethel Mae Reenders (*1914), Anje Smidt (*1886), Jan Jacob Bouwman (*1908), Derkje Pool (*1878), Taco Meima (*1882).
Sitting:
Pieterke (Piek) Meima (*1921), Grietje Boerma (*1929 (living)), Martje Pool (*1916 (living)), Jantje Pool (*1912), Frouwke Meima (*1912 (living))
In the foreground:
Albertus Roelf (Bert Roelf (living)) Pool (*1922), Albertus (Bert) Pool (*1922)

I am very sorry that we are not in touch. The only thing I want to do is relate. I am a retired chaplain of the Dutch armed forces, and I spend some time digging up the family roots. You could help me by sending me a reply. I would like to know what you think of my email.

Met vriendelijk groet,
Erik Stam
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Prompt kwam er een reactie

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14-12-2004

Dear Erik,

(I think I should call you that way, since we do seem to be related).

Thank you for the interesting mails. I didn’t answer the last time, since my PC was swamped with viruses at the time they arrived. Then I had forgotten your name, which of course I needed for retrieval of mails.
None the less, I happen to have been thinking of you on this weekend and your recent message was therefore very welcome.
I am not sure, whether I recognize my father, since I never knew him at that age (remember I was born in 1949), but I will show the picture to my husband (the “Zobel” part of my name) next Friday, he always knows “faces”.
Now I wonder, How are we related (cousins??), how far removed?
How old are you, do you have a picture (mine is on my website, see below)
I really don’t think I should know about Ethel Mae Reenders, since she is not my mother. And no one ever mentioned her in our home.
Where do you live in the NL? Sometimes I travel to Zeist, Wageningen. Are you anywhere near there?
I am sorry that I cannot read your home page; or rather more I will need some extra time to translate from Dutch to Deutsch.
Please do not release any new information on me yet, I need to think about this. All together, how did you obtain the information on this part of the “Pool-Family”?
I was probably easy to find, thanks to “google”. But where did your find the information on the rest of us? Best Wishes,

Beatrice

Prof. Dr. Beatrice L. Pool-Zobel Chair of Nutritional Toxicology Institute for Nutrition
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena Dornburger Str. 25
07743 Jena Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 3641 949670
Fax: +49 (0) 3641 949672
email: b8pobe@uni-jena.de http://www.uni-jena.de/biol/iew/et

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14-12-2004

Dear Beatrice,

I was very pleasantly surprised this morning, finding your reaction in my mailbox. I really almost had given up hope you would ever reply. So thank you for taking the time and trouble. I will try to answer your questions as good as I can.
You are right about Google. You are indeed very easy to find on the internet. Your sister is a little bit harder to find though, and your father’s name is in the telephone book of Heidelberg. That simple.
But I did not want to keep “stalking” you. People have a right on their privacy and I certainly want to respect that. Now that you have answered me I feel free to write again and tell you something about myself and the family. I included a picture of myself. Maybe not the best one but you would be able to recognize me from it. I was born in The Hague 21 April 1950. I am married and I have three children: two daughters (Hester, b. 1978 and Eva, b. 1987) and a son (Jaap, b. 1980).

One day I got interested in my family ties with people in America. Especially on my mother’s side. So I started to dig in family history. Old photograph albums and genealogy books and papers. My name is Erik Stam, but my mother’s family name is Pool. Most of her (Pool-)ancestors emigrated.

To make a long story short, I discovered that a man called Roelof Pool was married to a woman called Derkje Bos. They lived in the Netherlands in the province of Groningen. In a little village called Warffum to be exact. There, in Warffum, Roelf was a shopkeeper (manufactures).

Roelf and Derkje had several children, and one of them was called Willem. He was very adventurous in his childhood. Wanted to see more of the world than the small village of Warffum. He did not seem to be able to follow the normal rules so his parents decided the best thing for him was to go to sea…..

Willem made several travels very far away from his home village, and people told he even came as far as Russia! Later on he went to America. He stayed there for a longer time and studied theology. He became a minister. As it is stated in the official genealogy reports:

Willem Pool, age 23, single, without occupation, emigrated from Warffum to Fulton, Illinois, in 1881. He belonged to the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk. This would explain his attending seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, just to the north of Fulton on the Mississippi River, from which he graduated in 1889.

One day Willem returned to The Netherlands. This trip had to do with a church meeting.

During his travels Willem of course visited his parents in Warffum. He convinced them and his brothers and sisters that America was a good land to live in and so Roelf and Derkje and all of their children decided to go with Willem (or William as he was called now). This was in 1892.

The only son that could not go immediately was Albertus. Unlike his father he wanted to be a blacksmith and just before William returned he had bought a forge for himself in Uithuizen. He was not able to sell it again at that time so he decided to stay behind until he would have sold it for a good price.

In the meantime Albertus received news from America that life was not so good at all. His parents died in bad circumstances, in poverty, and his brothers and sisters were not doing so well. So he stayed in Uithuizen for the rest of his life. He was the only Pool left. (This weekend I visited a grandson of Albertus, who also was a blacksmith in the same place.)

He had already married Martje Reenders, in 1877. They had several children among whom was my grandfather: Klaas Pool. In short this is my part of the story.

Now about the Pools in the States: I met some of them, and it was good to discover we felt we belong to the same family.

William Pool, the minister, son of Roelf and Derkje had seven (7) children with his wife Gerarda Thomasma. The third son was called William Albertus (Will) Pool, b. 05 april 1890 in South Blendon MI, d. 18 jan 1955. He was married to Louise Mergler, b. 31 december 1890, d. 08 jul 1980. These people were your grandparents.

They had four children. The oldest was your father. The second son was Ralph Lawrence Pool, b. 28 december 1920. He was the one who gathered genealogical information about the family in the US and in the Netherlands. From him I received the information about you. Ralph died in the 1980s.

About Ethel Mae Reenders:
For her you need to go back to William (the minister). William had a sister called Jantje (Jennie) Pool, b. 07 jan 1856 in Warffum, d. 28 oktober 1916 te Kalamazoo MI. Jantje was married to Tjeert (George) Reenders, b. 15 september 1855 te Eenrum, d. 22 april 1933 te Kalamazoo MI. They had six children. The last one in that row was William Reenders, married to Kate Munter. They had four children, and the oldest of them was Ethel Mae.

So your father and Ethel Mae came to the Netherlands in 1946 to find their roots. I probably already sent you another picture of your father standing before the house of Roelf and Derkje in Warffum made in that same year. If not please let me know.

We live in the Netherlands between Nijmegen and Den Bosch in a little village (700 inhabitants) called Macharen. (Dorpstraat 17, 5367 AK, tel +31 (0)412 492608). We renovated a farm and changed the stables into living space. It took us 10 years but now it is a really great place. With an account on my website you would be able to see pictures of our house and family in the “gallery”.
We live an hour from Wageningen.

I am sorry you cannot read all of the information on my website. Some parts I translated into English, but to do it in German would be too difficult for me. I would make too many mistakes in the grammar. If you would make an account (and I would like to encourage you to do so) on my website, you would be able to find more information, like texts and pictures and genealogical data. I built the website in this way because I do not want the “whole world” to have access to these data.

I hope this answers your questions. Of course I will not publish any more information about you on my website. If you want me to change anything about you or your relatives, please let me know. Once someone in the family reached me and asked me to take him out of the database. I did so of course and this person (of whom I forgot the name) does not exist anymore in the family tree. That is up to you because I do not think I have the right to publish things about other people without their permission.

If you want to take a look at a censured database of the family, please take a look at this address: http://members.home.nl/stamek/gen/pool/frame3.htm

I could send you a Word-document with the family data if that is what you would like. Please let me know. In the meantime I am glad I can communicate with you in English. My German is terrible.

I also have some questions for you but I do not want to ask them right away. Maybe later and maybe some day in Wageningen?

Met vriendelijk groet,
Erik Stam
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En toen ging ik de fout in! Ik had een zinnetje van haar mails niet serieus genoeg genomen:

Please do not release any new information on me yet, I need to think about this.

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20-12-2004

Dear Beatrice,

I talked about your email with an American distant-cousin: Tom Pool. He is a son of Gerard Pool, who was the youngest son of William Pool the minister that I mentioned in my previous e-mail. You probably do not know him. After that he wrote this to me (for you):

“… please let her know that one of my fondest Thanksgiving memories is of her grandmother, Louise Pool. Louise would usually bring part of the meal when they were invited to our home for Thanksgiving, and it would always be a molded orange yellow salad with shredded carrot. For some reason, she knew that I like it, and she would always see to it that I got some.

Besides that, she was always willing to talk to me like an adult, and I admired that about her. She and Uncle Will once took me on an outing to see the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan and also to some of the old movie studios in New Jersey [just the buildings from the outside]. Funny what things remain in one’s memory from childhood.

There was a lot of sadness in that family, some of which you already know, but if not, I’ll tell you about it. Cousin Ralph [who would be Beatrice’s uncle] was one of my dad’s favorites, Ralph was very kind to my dad during the years after my mother’s death. He had worked for the telephone company for many years, as did his wife Ronnie, whom he had met and married, I think, during WWII.”

I hope this makes sense to you. Family memories. I do not have memories of the people Tom mentions (I  never knew them) but I am glad Tom shares this with you and me.

I think the Cousin Ralph he mentions is the one I told you about. Your father’s brother who did the genealogy bit.

Met vriendelijk groet,

Erik Stam
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21-12-2004

Dear Eric,

thank you for all of the information, it is interesting for me, since we have had no contact to the Pools. But I would prefer that you do not mention me to them.

Our memories are not fond and I fear that the German side was not appreciated.

I have not (and probably will not) be too explicit on this type of contact to my parents. So please do not divulge any more information.

We can talk about this some time later, in another few years, meantime I need to think about it and will be back to you, as soon as I am ready.

Thank you and best wishes for Christmas, for you and your family. Beatrice

Prof. Dr. Beatrice L. Pool-Zobel Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena Institut for Nutrition

Department of Nutritional Toxicology Dornburger Str. 25
07743 Jena, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 3641 949670
Fax: +49 (0) 3641 949672
e-mail: b8pobe@uni-jena.de
web site: http://www.uni-jena.de/biologie/ieu/ew/et

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21-12-2004

Dear Beatrice,

I have read your mail carefully, and I think I understand your worries. Obviously I am trespassing in a way I was not aware of.

So I promise any contact with you will be only between you and me, and I will tell no one about this anymore (except my wife and she can be trusted; Tom Pool will certainly respect your wish and I will ask him to not communicate about you with anyone).

I was wondering if you have an email address that is not involved with your work so our contact could be even more confidential and secure. Now I see your reply comes from another address so I will use that.

I want you to know I am really appreciating your replies and I cherish our contact. I am very sorry to hear that in the past there has been estrangement in the family. I hope you and I can, as the next generation, almost 60 years after the war, heal these wounds and live in peace.

You express the wish to have no contact for the next few years. You know: I do not want to be a security risk in your life and/or work so if there is any other way I could gain your trust I would appreciate that. You do not know me and I am a stranger from the internet, so to speak, so I am aware of the vulnerability of our exchange. I am planning to live a very long life, and I like to believe so are you, but who knows what may happen?

To be explicit, I was thinking one day we could meet, in the Netherlands or in Germany. For instance have a cup of tea somewhere, when you visit our country in Zeist or Wageningen. That could help to make a decision about eventual further contact, and give a chance to growing feelings of trust and sympathy. The advantage of a meeting would be there is no written result (like these e-mails) and you and I could communicate. I mean email is a wonderful thing but it has its shortcomings compared to real speech and visual contact. I hope with this suggestion I am not trespassing again.

Thank you Beatrice for your reply. I wish you and your family all the best for Christmas and the year to come.

Met vriendelijk groet,
Erik Stam
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Ik schreef hierover vervolgens naar Tom in Evanston en zijn reactie troostte me.

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21-12-2004

Erik,

Although I have always admired you, I am now really awestruck by your sensitivity, your warmth, your human skills. Thank you for sending on the information, which you did. I will not mention Beatrice at all by name. However, I await some sort of written response from David, about whom I have written to you, and I will fill you in on some information I have which you may not. It is too bad that my parents are deceased, though even if they were alive, I doubt that I would get much information from them. There are still living cousins, I think, who are children of Ralph and Ronnie, but I don’t know them.

David is our best chance, I think, if he is willing to talk. More later. I have to get ready to face the world and catch a train downtown.

Tom

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Ook de reactie van Beatrice troostte mij

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21-12-2004

Thank you dear Eric!

Yes, you have struck the right note!

And it certainly will not take years, I am sure I will communicate before too long, but only with you for the time being.

Best wishes again and thank you for your understanding, Beatrice

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Tot zover de correspondentie met Beatrice Pool.
De rest ben ik kwijt geraakt helaas.

Want er was meer, en ze vertelde me dat ze naar haar vader was gegaan in Heidelberg. Vermoedelijk was dit na het overlijden van haar moeder in 2006. Ze had hem toch verteld over mij en ze vroeg hem of ze met mij verder mocht uitwisselen over de familie. Zijn reactie was geweest: “By all means! Of course feel free!” Dat was goed nieuws en nu voelde Beatrice zich vrij om me wat meer te vertellen.

Haar gegevens heb ik verwerkt in de database die ik had gemaakt voor de genealogie (zie verderop) en toen werd het stil tussen haar en mij.

Toen, een half jaar na haar overlijden in 2008, bereikte mij dit bericht:

Heidelberg Prof. Beatrice L. Pool-Zobel passed away at the age of 59 on May 13. She had kept her private home in Heidelberg since she graduated and worked as a scientist in the former Institute of Toxicology and Chemotherapy at the DKFZ in the 70’s and 80’s. In recent years, she held a Chair of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Jena, but continued her relationship to the DKFZ by many scientific and personal links. She was also an active member in our Alumni Association since its foundation in 2004. The internationally recognized scientific work of Pool-Zobel was dedicated to cancer prevention by appropriate nutrition. At the University of Jena she was an esteemed member of her Faculty and an admired academic teacher.

With Beatrice Pool-Zobel, the Alumni Association loses an amiable member who will be kept in good memory

Bron: Obituaries for DKFZ Alumni

Ik schrok. De betovering was voorbij en ik zou haar nooit ontmoeten. Ik meen begrepen te hebben dat zij dezelfde ziekte kreeg als waar ze levenslang op studeerde om die te bestrijden, namelijk darmkanker. Hoe bizar kan het zijn.

Achteraf denk ik dat het zo zat: Haar vader werkte direct na de tweede wereldoorlog voor de geallieerde overheid in Duitsland. Er moest orde op zaken gesteld worden daar en hij deed als jurist wat hij moest doen. En hij werd verliefd.
De vrouw die zijn hart had gestolen werd de moeder van Beatrice en haar zuster Brigitte. Die moeder overleed in 2006 en toen was het blijkbaar in orde om wat meer info te geven aan mij.
Die moeder, Berta Katharina Rannoch was, vermoed ik, op de een of andere manier fout geweest in de oorlog, en als die informatie in de krant (lees: bij Erik Stam op de website) zou komen dan kon het wel eens grote schade aanrichten in hun familie en loopbanen. Er was duidelijk een familiegeheim en Beatrice deinsde terug toen ik daar in de buurt kwam. Ik voelde dat aan maar te laat. Enfin, het kwam goed maar ze ging dood helaas.
Ik begreep van haar dat de kinderen van Brigitte mijn verhalen interessant vonden, dus wie weet komen die nog eens op het net.

Beatrice in 1994

Bij bovenstaande foto:

Dr. Rainer Wild-Preis 1994
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Pool-Zobel, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Ernährung, Karlsruhe/Universität Jena

Die Analytik von Lebensmitteln und deren gesundheitsfördernder bzw. -hemmender Inhaltsstoffe standen am Anfang der heutigen Debatten über Functional Food. Prof. Dr. Pool-Zobel hat mit ihrer Forschung, insbesondere von Milchprodukten, diese Diskussion entscheidend mit angestoßen.

Het familie verband voor zover ik dat heb achterhaald van deze Pool-verwanten.
(Na het overlijden van de professor heb ik geen verdere moeite gedaan.)

Parenteel van Berta Katharina Rannoch

generatie I

Gezin I-a
Berta Katharina Rannoch

Geboren 20 september 1925 Frankfurt am Main als dochter van Fritz Rannoch en Katherina Heene, overleden 14 oktober 2006 Heidelberg, 81 jaar
Gehuwd ± 1945 Heidelberg (ongeveer 61 jaar gehuwd)
met:
William Mergler Pool, zoon van William Albertus Pool en Louise Mergler.
Roepnaam: Bill, geboren 10 jun 1918. Beroep: werkte als procureur (attorney) in dienst van de US overheid in Europa (Heidelberg)

Kinderen:

  1. Brigitte Pool gehuwd met Walter Herbert Brosi, volgt: II-a

2. Beatrice Louise Pool gehuwd met Siegfried Eberhard Günther Zobel, volgt: II-b

generatie II

Gezin II-a
Brigitte Pool, dochter van William Mergler Pool en Berta Katharina Rannoch.
Geboren 16 aug 1946 Heidelberg, overleden 30 jun 1998 Erpel, 51 jaar. Beroep: werkzaam aam de Universiteit van Trier als vakdocente Engelse taal
Gehuwd voor 1982 (minimaal 16 jaar gehuwd)
met:
Walter Herbert Brosi
Kinderen:
1. Richard William Walter Brosi Geboren 23 maart 1982 Linz am Rhein.
2. Victoria Katharina Franziska Brosi Geboren 20 april 1983 Linz am Rhein, graduated 24 January 2014 University of York Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Gezin II-b
Beatrice Louise Pool, dochter van William Mergler Pool en Berta Katharina Rannoch.
Roepnaam: Belu, geboren 04 april 1949 Heidelberg, overleden 13 mei 2008 Heidelberg , 59 jaar. Beroep: Director of the Institute for Nutrition and Prodean, Jena University
Gehuwd 21 jul 1989 (18 jaar gehuwd)
met:
Siegfried Eberhard Günther Zobel Geboren 03 mei 1941 Bolkenhain.

Nawoord en correctie
(voor de volledigheid) inzake Ethel Mae Reenders en haar man John Russell Riddell Jr.

Ik schreef aan Beatrice onder meer:

Ethel Mae Reenders lost her husband John Russell Riddell. He was an American pilot who was shot when he did his work in 1945 in the air over Luxembourg.

Die informatie klopt niet. Zie het onderstaande.

JOHN RUSSELL RIDDELL JR.

1917 – 1945

John Russell Riddell, Jr., was born in Memphis, Tennessee, December 25, 1917, the son of John Russell and Anita Chighizola Riddell, who were also the parents of Mary Elma, who married Wallace MacMullen and resides in New York City.
John Russell, Jr., attended school in Memphis, Tennessee, in Boston two years, in Pawling, New York, Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, and Louisiana State University.
He found employment with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in a branch office in Spartanberg, South Carolina, for about one year.

Military Experience
John joined the infantry March 27, 1942, and was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for basic training, after which he joined the 94th Division at Fort Custer, Michigan. He was then transferred to Camp Phillips, Kansas, later participated in maneuvers in Tennessee. For a time he was in Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and later in Camp McCain, Mississippi. He was shipped overseas to England in August 1944 and reached France in September, 1944, and was at St. Nazaire until January 1, 1945. He then went into Germany with the Third Army under General Patton and was killed in action at Tettingen, Germany, January 18, 1945. He received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and was also holder of the Good Conduct Medal.

Marriage
John Russell Riddell, Jr., was married January 30, 1943, to Ethel Reenders of Kalamazoo. She was educated in the Kalamazoo public schools and was graduated from Central High School in 1932, after which she spent two years in Michigan State College.
Mr. and Mrs. Riddell began housekeeping in Salina, Kansas, and went from there to Mississippi.

Personal Characteristics
John was five feet eleven inches tall and weighed about one hundred thirty pounds with medium brown hair and green eyes. He enjoyed golf, tennis, fishing and dancing, and was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity and of the Roman Catholic Church.
The name of John Russell Riddell, Jr., now belongs with the radiant list of fine young men who gave their lives to preserve and extend freedom.

May his memory ever be cherished by us all !

24 January 1945
Mrs. Ethel Riddell 529 Forest Street Kalamazoo, Michigan

Dear Mrs. Riddell:
It is with deep sympathy that I write to you of the death of your husband Staff Sergeant John R. Riddell, Jr., 322 323 85. John was killed 18 January 1945 in Germany while engaged in action against the enemy. He was buried with fitting burial rites read by a Catholic Chaplain in an Army Cemetery in Luxembourg.
John joined this regiment more than two years ago and has served his country well as a superior non-commissioned officer and leader until the day of his death. He had been awarded the Good Conduct Medal for his exemplary behavior, efficiency and fidelity. By his excellent conduct in action against the enemy he had been awarded the right to wear the Combat Infantryman Badge.
The Company and the Regiment join me in extending our heart-felt sympathy. His loss will be keenly felt by all who knew him. We shall do our part in bringing this war to an early and successful conclusion so that his sacrifice will not have been in vain.

Very sincerely

H. H. McCLUNE
Colonel, Infantry Commanding.

bron: https://archive.org/stream/Binder27_201812/Binder27_djvu.txt

DESCRIPTION

Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in “Tractorette” class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman, farm equipment manager of Hinton & Hutton, and Floyd Sherrod, branch manager.

RECORD DETAILS
Image ID: 50965
Creation Date: 1942
Creator Name: International Harvester Company City: Collierville
County:
State: Tennessee
Collection Name: Photo albums, circa 1899-1965 Genre: Photograph
Original Format Type: photographic print, b&w
Original Format Number: MCC MSS 7Z, Album 596, Pg.31 Original Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
International Harvester Company announced the “Tractorette” plan in 1942. The plan was intended to address the farm labor shortage created by U.S. war mobilization. The plan called for local dealers to offer free training for thousands of farm women and girls in the operation of tractors and other farm machinery. Similar images appear in the International Harvester publication “News and Views of the Tractorettes: Food for Victory” [McCormick Mss 6z, file 496].

Dus op de foto de echtgenote en de zus van John Russell Riddell Jr. Ik denk dat Ethel Mae achter het stuur zit

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