The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College

Title

Interview with Dorothy Bloom, May 28, 1993

Interview Participants

Interviewee: Dorothy Bloom (Dottie Bloom), wife of Robert L. Bloom, Professor of History, Gettysburg College

Interviewer: Michael J. Birkner, Benjamin Franklin Professor of the Liberal Arts & Professor of History, Gettysburg College

Document Type

Oral History

Description

Dorothy Bloom, wife of Robert Bloom, a professor of history at Gettysburg College, was interviewed on May 28, 1993 by Michael Birkner about her experience as a spouse of a faculty member from 1949 to 1981. She discusses other faculty members and administrators at the time, her husband's work and the events they participated in on campus.

Length of Interview: 91 minutes

Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4^th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search

Interview Date

5-28-1993

Department 1

History

Copyright Note

This interview appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Recommended Citation

Bloom, Dorothy and Birkner, Michael J., "Interview with Dorothy Bloom, May 28, 1993" (1993). Oral Histories. 2.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/oralhistall/2