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Barbara and Glenn's Life Story--As a Timeline
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1927
Chiang Kai-Shek breaks with communists, Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic solo, Television invented
1929
Stalin enforces "forced collectivization," Stock Market crash, First commercial trans-Atlantic radio and telegraph service
1927 Sept. 27 Glenn Everett Halliday is born to Noma and Irl Halliday in Walla Walla, WA. He is their first child. Irl Halliday had a business with poultry distribution.
1928 Oct. 15 Glenn's brother, Leslie Irl Halliday is born in Walla Walla.
1929 Dec. 9 Glenn's brother, Roger Ellsworth, is born in Walla Walla.
1931 Japanese attack Manchuria, EmpireStateBuilding opens to the public, Wiley Post sets a new World record for an around-the-world flight
1932 Japanese attack Shanghai. Hoover establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, Dachau opens, FDR's New Deal programs are implemented, Prohibition repealed, Hoover Dam completed
1934 Stalin begins purges, Mao sets off on a long march
1935 Social Security Act, WPA created
1936 Spanish Civil War breaks out, Hitler occupies the Rhineland, Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia
1937 Hindenburg Blows Up, Amelia Earhart disappears
1938 Germany takes over Austria, Kristallnacht in Germany, Howard Hughes sets around the World record
1939 Germans enter Prague, Germany invades Poland, Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declares the country is at war with Germany, DDT discovered as an insecticide, Einstein writes a letter to FDR, Passenger Service across Atlantic Ocean, Igor Sikorsky Flies a Helicopter, Germans develop the first jet-powered airplane
1931 Oct. 20, Barbara Marlene Kemmerich is born in Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska. Her parents were living at a federal fish hatchery at Yes Bay, Alaska --60 miles by boat from Ketchikan. Her mother stayed in Ketchikan the last month of her pregnancy to be assured of being near the hospital for her birth. Hospital was run by Catholic nuns. Father: Alphonse Kemmerich, his parents: August & Barbara Kemmerich. Mother: Pauline Pressentin, her parents: Charles & Jessie von Pressentin
1931-1933 Barbara's family lived at Yes Bay fish hatchery. See: Stan and the Milk Run
1932 April? Jessie Pressentin, Pauline's mother comes to Yes Bay for a month.
1932 May. Pauline & Barbara made a trip out to Sedro-Woolley to visit Pauline's family. They stay in Sedro-Woolley for a month. Pauline takes Barbara to see Wilhelmine von Pressentin, Pauline's grandmother, at her ranch in Birdsview, WA. The original Karl & Wilhelmine von Pressentin ranch house had burned about 1929. The new one was not yet constructed.
1933 Sept. Glenn starts first grade in Walla Walla, WA.
1933 Oct. 7 Al, Pauline and Barbara Kemmerich move to Spring Creek fish hatchery at Underwood, WA from Yes Bay, Alaska.
1934 Glenn's family moves to Milton-Freewater, Oregon for a few months and then to Pendleton, Oregon for his 2nd grade. Irl apparently tried to start a small trucking business then, first driving one truck then buying a second truck only to have the driver of it crash and bankrupt that business.
1935 Glenn's family moves to Kennewick, Washington staying with the Terrils for a couple weeks before settling on a farm outside of Pasco, Washington. Glenn contracts pneumonia in late October and was in the Catholic hospital in Pasco for most of November. After a relapse, he is back in the hospital until late December. Both the Halliday and the Terril grandparents lived in Kennewick.
1933-1937 Barbara's family lives at White Salmon federal fish hatchery, Underwood, WA. on Columbia River. Barbara had pet dog, “Tippy.” Her family spent summer of 1935 (?) in Yellowstone Nat. Park. Al in charge of Yellowstone Lake hatchery.
1937 Irl Halliday gets a job with Guy F. Atkinson construction at Grand Coulee Dam which was just getting started. Irl's fraternity brother from Willamette University, George Atkinson, is Superintendent of the project. Irl works as a guard at the construction site. Glenn's family moves to "Elmerton" downstream from the damsite. Glenn's school has two rooms. His teacher is Mrs. Seaton. Later his family moves to Mason City (now Coulee Dam), very near the dam site on the north side of the river. Glenn joins the Cub Scouts, and Mildred Atkinson, wife of George Atkinson, is the den mother.
1937 May 3 Barbara's brother, Noel Lee, was born at Hood River, OR hospital.
1937 July-Aug. Barbara's family went to Yellowstone Park. Al was in charge of hatchery at Yellowstone Lake for summer season. Barbara met ex-Pres. Herbert Hoover. Hoover sent her skirt & blouse set from Bullocks, CA. She wore it when she started first grade in fall.
1937 Sept. Barbara started first grade at White Salmon grade school.
1937 Nov. Al transferred to Bureau of Fisheries office, Seattle, WA. Family moved to apartment on Queen Anne Hill. Enrolled in elementary school there. Al, Barb & Noel all got whooping cough.
1938 Jan.-Feb, Barbara enrolled in Sedro-Woolley, WA grade school. Stayed with Grama & Grampa Pressentin.
1938 Mar-April, Barbara's parents bought home in Laurelhurst district, near Lake Washington. Address: 3811 41st N.E. Barbara enrolled in Laurelhurst grade school.
1938 or 1939 Irl Halliday rented a farm upstream from the dam, right up against a coulee wall and several miles away from the nearest town. Indian caves, arrowheads and rattlesnakes made life interesting for Glenn and his brothers.
1939 Irl was given a more responsible job at Guy F Atkinson Co. as Foreman (later Superintendent) of lubrication at the Hansen Dam project above the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles. He rented a house in the center of the San Fernando Valley, near an area called Sepulveda. Glenn and his brothers walk past Mae West's ranch home on their way to and from school.
1940 Germany Invades Norway,Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg, Dunkirk Evacuated, Paris Falls, France Surrenders, Battle of Britain, First xerographic machine designed
1941 German battleship "Bismark" sunk, German forces invade Russia, Atlantic Charter, Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Penicillin first used to treat humans
1942 Singapore Surrenders, Battle of the Coral Sea, Philippines Surrender, Battle of Midway, German Troops Reach Stalingrad, Nuclear chain reaction achieved in an atomic pile
1943 Surrender at Stalingrad, Bombing of Germany, Allies Land in Italy
1944 D-Day, Paris Liberated, Philippines Liberated, B-29 Raids on Japan, Battle of the Bulge
1945 Auschwitz Liberated, Yalta Conference, Bombing of Dresden, US Land On Iwo Jima, US Cross Rhine at Remagen, Germany Surrenders, Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan Surrenders
1946 Verdicts at Nuremberg, UN General Assembly, Chinese Civil War, Iron Curtain, Peron Dictator of Argentina, First Electronic Computer
1947 Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, India/Pakistan Independent, Partition of Palestine, Yaeger Breaks Sound Barrier, Gigantic Spruce Goose Flies
1948 Communists Control Czechoslovakia, Berlin Blockaded, South Africa Apartheid, State of Israel Declared, Berlin Airlift, US Recognizes Israel, Civil War In Costa Rica, Polaroid Camera, Quantum Dynamics Theory
1949 NATO, Communist Victory China, Soviets Detonate A-Bomb
1940 Mar. 15 Glenn's brother, Terry, born in Van Nuys, California
1940 mid-year Irl Halliday was asked to go to a new dam project on the Red River, near Denison in northern Texas. Three older boys, a very young baby, and Glenn's parents made quite a crowded car. They took a week to get to Texas and did some sightseeing along Route 66: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert. Glenn dropped his Brownie Kodak camera at the Grand Canyon--the end of his first photography hobby. Glenn's family lived in Sherman, Texas.
[Postcard from Glenn}
Picture: Lowering Loaded Box Car, Boulder Dam
To: Fred Omura, 9159 Hayvenhurst, Rt. 1, San Fernando
Message: Dear Fred, We arrived at Denison [ Texas] Saturday and are now looking for a house. I will let you know the address. We saw Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam and the Painted Desert on the way.
Your Friend, Glenn. [Glenn was 13 years old, and his family was moving from Sepulveda, in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles. Fred was a friend from school, and lived nearby]
1940 Sept. Glenn enters 7th grade in Sherman (Texas only had 7 years of elementary schools.) Irl took over running a small service station, (Texaco?) with part-time help. Glenn was drafted into pumping gas at times and learned quite a bit.
1940 Aug. Al transferred to newly created agency, US Fish & Wildlife Service, a combination of Bureau of Fisheries & Bureau of Biological Survey. Al is the regional supervisor of the division of fish culture. Barbara's family moved to house at Clackamas fish hatchery, Clackamas, OR. Hatchery no longer hatching many fish, but experimental study of fish diseases is carried on at Clackamas station.
1940 Sept. Barbara enrolled in Clackamas Grade School.
1941 Sept. Glenn starts high school in Sherman, TX
1941 Dec. 07 Glenn's family was still in Sherman on December 7, 1941 when they heard of Pearl Harbor on the radio. "We listened all day and then the next when President Roosevelt gave his famous “Day of Infamy” speech, and war was officially declared."
Barbara's family was visiting Al's sister, Kathryn Stupfel in Salem when the radio station announced that Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Japanese. The next day, at Clackamas Grade School, a general assembly heard President Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech.
1942-1943 Glenn's family moved to Denison, Texas to a farm about 3 miles out of town. It was a real farm and Glenn had to become sort of a farm boy. He learned to milk a cow, pick cotton (elsewhere), kill a chicken for dinner and, very importantly, how to plow a straight furrow behind a mule. He became convinced then that he never wanted to do anything connected with agriculture in later life.
Glenn got his first job earning his own money by delivering papers after school during the week and early on Sunday. He had about 100 papers to deliver in a residential area near the center of town. He learned many lessons of life here.
1942 Summer Barbara joins all the other older children in the Willamette Valley in the annual berry picking: strawberries in May and June, raspberries in July. She rides her bike to the nearby berry fields.
1943 Spring Glenn went out for football and was also a top student. He played Junior Varsity and really liked the game. He also took up stamp collecting. He joined a Boy Scout troop with a really top leader, Robert (Bob) Cox, who was an engineer at the dam, and a former football tackle at Oklahoma. Glenn really liked this group and put a lot of energy into it. He became a Life Scout and Senior Patrol Leader. Later, he went to a Boy Scout summer camp up in Oklahoma.
1943 Summer At the end of Glenn's sophomore year, his family moved back to Kennewick, where Irl was working for Guy F. Atkinson at the secret Hanford Project near Richland, WA. The Project turned out to be a number of reactors turning out plutonium for atom bombs. The plutonium manufactured at the Hanford site was used to build the first
nuclear bomb that was tested at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and used to build "Fat Man" the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Almost immediately Glenn found himself with an adult job even at the age of 15. He went to work for the Hanford power company as a “Rod & Chain” man on a survey crew. It was all so new to him that he didn’t even know what his wages were. When he found they were about $50, he thought they meant monthly, when it was really weekly. He worked for the power company about three weeks, then went to work for GFA at Hanford on a survey crew laying out railroad lines all over the place. At this time Irl found a rental place in Yakima, probably 60 miles from Hanford. So Glenn and Irl stayed in barracks during the week, eating in Army type mess halls, living with thousands of other workers, and then went home on weekends. Forty-five thousand workers were employed in the construction of the Hanford Project.
1943 Summer Besides berry-picking near home, Barbara also stays with her farm cousins in St. Paul and Salem, for a few weeks, where she helps with the dairy work, picks black raspberries and hops.
1943 Sept. Glenn started his junior year at Yakima High School. Almost immediately all the students were released to go to work in the apple orchards for several weeks. Glenn also spent some time picking hops, not a fun job. Glenn learned to drive that fall with Irl as his instructor.
1943 Sept. On recommendation of Miss Trenary, Barbara was “skipped” to 8th grade, along with Frances Lowry and Glennie Corbin.
1943 Sept. 29 Russell Edward, Irl and Noma's fifth son, is born in Yakima. Russell was a "blue baby" due to an untreatable (at the time) heart condition.
1943 Nov. 9 Russell Edward dies.
1943 Fall/Winter Glenn usedsome of his Hanford Project money to buy a brand new Schwinn Bicycle, and a bright blue Mackinaw type coat for winter. The bike later became family property when Glenn went into the Navy, but he kept the coat through college and beyond.
1944 Spring Irl was transferred by GFA to Centerville, California (now part of Fremont ). He managed a gravel pit and plant in Irvington. Glenn drove the family car down to California; Irl drove his pickup.
Irl rented an old farm house, complete with huge century plants, and a water tower-- the mark of an old California farm in the early 20th century. It was about midway between Irvington and Centerville, right on the main North-South highway from Oakland to San Jose.
Glenn enrolled as a junior at Washington Union High School in Centerville. (Now part of Fremont, CA). He made three good friends among his classmates: George Bettencourt, Stan Lewis, and Frank Pinto. The area was mostly agricultural, and heavily Portuguese in ancestry. Glenn went out for football spring training as a quarterback.
1944 May Barbara graduated from Clackamas grade school. Was class Salutatorian. Frances Lowry was Valedictorian.
1944 Summer Glenn sometimes worked with Irl at the gravel pit.
Somewhere in the summer Glenn, Les, and Roger went to Yosemite on a camping trip with a fourth friend, Joe Hilton. Irl took them and their bicycles.They spent a week there, hiking the short and steep trail to Glacier Point. (Now closed as too hazardous.) Leslie climbed Half Dome on his own. He was out and back in what had to be record time. The boys rode their bikes out to Merced, to meet Irl. On the hardest uphill grade, a black Cadillac hearse stopped and offered them a ride. They were at Merced very early and hardly tired at all!
Glenn, Les and Roger helped the "war effort" by contracting to pick a crop of plums and turn them into prunes. A tough job, but they didn't break the contract.
1944 Sept. Barbara entered Milwaukie Union High School. Took bus from hatchery entrance road at 82nd to school, about five miles away..
1945 Spring
Glenn participated in
football, track and tennis at high school. His entry in the Hearst newspaper's History Essay Contest won him third place in the northern California area, and a meeting with Governor Earl Warren in Sacramento.
During “Senior Sneak Day” Glenn went horseback riding up in the foothills, was kicked by another rider's horse below the knee, disabling him for a month and keeping him out of the big valley track meet. Glenn never rode a horse again.
1945 June Glenn graduated from Washington Union High School.
1945 Summer Glenn worked in a small Naval warehouse in Irvington which stocked valves for the Navy. He trucked pallets of valves from one place to another, not exactly skilled work but was part of the war effort.
Glenn enlisted in US Navy with his high school friends, George Bettencourt, Frank Pinto and Stanley Lewis. Not inducted until November.
1945 Summer Barbara started working at Clarke’s Seed Company, on Lawnfield Rd,Clackamas. Picked pansy seed. Did this summer job until 1947, and then worked summers and Saturdays as office clerk for Clarkes.
1945 Aug. World War II ends with surrender of Japan after atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1945 Sept. 2 World War II officially ended.
1945 Nov. Glenn is inducted into the US Navy, and sent to San Diego for basic training. He was first assigned to Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay,and later to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1946 April 1 Glenn arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii, by airplane, just a few hours before a destructive tsunami hits the Islands. He is assigned to an MRI (Machine Records Installation) running IBM punched card machines. He worked in a Quonset hut located in Aiea Crater.
1946 Fall Barbara is appointed to head Milwaukie High School's annual United Way fund drive. A small radio station in Gladstone heard her, and invited her to report on the area high school sports once a week. Barbara is more interested in going to football games with her new boy friend, David Mullan, than reporting on them, and after a few months she and the radio station agree to part.
1947 November Glenn's tour of duty in the Navy ends, and he returns to San Francisco by US Navy ship. Later, he was officially discharged (Honorably) from the active Navy and moved into the Naval Reserve for several years. Glenn had saved most of his military pay ($45 per month). One of his first acts after his discharge was to buy a 1940 Chevrolet Club Coupe for about $1250. The next thing was to buy a $100 Hart Schaffner & Marx glen plaid suit. It was too late to enroll at Willamette University, so Glenn returned to his parents' home, worked for a short time at a Standard Oil gas station in Milpitas, CA and then moved to Sacramento where he ran IBM punched card machines for the Dept. of Motor Vehicles .
1948 May Barbara graduated from Milwaukie Union High School. She was one of two class speakers, along with Ted Loder. Accepted at Reed College, given small scholarship to Linfield College, accepted at Willamette Univ., Salem.
1948 Glenn worked for the Dept. of Motor Vehicles until late summer. He found a girl friend, Georgia Laughlin, who was still in high school. They spent as much time as possible at beaches like Santa Cruz, dances, and one time, dinner and dancing with a Big Band at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley.
1948 Late Summer Irl was transferred to a dam construction job on the Republican River, near Alma, Nebraska.
1948 Sept. A couple weeks before starting Willamette Glenn and friend George Bettencourt drove Irl's old LaSalle with trailer, and Glenn's Chevy to Alma, Nebraska. The LaSalle's leaky radiator required constant refills of water as the two cars played leapfrog across Donner Pass, CA, the Utah Salt Flats, the Rockies and plains of Nebraska. This left Glenn with lifelong fear of overheating car engines.
Roger and Leslie returned to the Bay Area with Glenn and George Bettencourt in Glenn's Chevy. Enroute, they went to Yellowstone Nat. Park, and Glenn hit his first slot machine jackpot in Nevada--$10 on a single dime play. Leaving George B. in Irvington, Glenn, Roger and Leslie drove to Salem. Roger and Glenn both enrolled at Willamette, Roger on an Atkinson scholarship, Glenn on the GI Bill. Leslie went on to Fort Lewis where he enlisted in the US Army. Glenn and Roger are roommates at Baxter Hall, at Willamette. Later, Glenn's roommate is Harold (Hal) Jole.
[Postcard from Glenn}
Picture: Old Faithful Geyser
To: I.A. Halliday, P.O. Box 565, Alma, Nebraska
Message: Dear Mom, Dad & Terry. Here we are—made it at 7:00 last night. Almost 600 miles. Pretty here; but the season’s almost over—everything’s closing. Staying here today—leaving tomorrow. Wish you could see this. Glenn. [Glenn, Les & Roger drove out from Halliday’s home in Alma, Nebraska. Glenn & Roger were headed for Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon and Les enlisted in the Army, went to Ft. Lewis, WA.]
1948 Sept. Barbara enrolled at Willamette University. Lived in Lausanne Hall--freshman dormitory. Roommates: Pat Koupal (1st semester), Virginia Wilson and Lucy Velasquez (2nd semester).
Glenn and Barbara meet in German class and at Baxter Hall dance.
1949 April. Barbara went through Spring Rush, chose Chi Omega sorority.
1949 Sept. Barbara moved into Chi Omega house on 17th Street, Salem.