T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection
ABSTRACT
INTERVIEWEES: Fred and Helen Belcher #4700.0721
IDENTIFICATION: Fred [ 1913 - ]; Helen [1916 - ]; son and daughter-in-law of Arthur
and Corrie Belcher, founders of VOA in Baton Rouge
INTERVIEWER: Randall Snowden -- Vice President of the Volunteers of America; Program
Director for America House, the Downtown Christian Outreach Center, and Transitional Housing
PROJECT: Volunteers of America Series
DATE: 8 September 1994 FOCUS DATES: 1900s - 1930s
ABSTRACT: Salvation Army; Volunteers of America (VOA) focus on families; original VOA
house; fund raising; Christmas Chimney; shoes for the poor; prison ministry; Vine House; racial
composition of South 16th Street; VOA work with black community; Hanson's Disease Center at
Carville; New Orleans maternity home; VOA role in adoptions; tent meetings; role of religion in
VOA; Pilgrim Church; Charles and Maude Booth (VOA founders) in Baton Rouge; 1927 flood;
Carrie Belcher's role in VOA; 1920s automobiles; J. C. Cheveallier as VOA head
TAPE: T1048 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hour
# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 69
RESTRICTIONS: None