T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Myron Falk #4700.0723

IDENTIFICATION: [1906 - 1997]; Former Director of United Way in Baton Rouge

INTERVIEWER: Unknown

PROJECT: Volunteers of America Series

DATE: 18 April 1995 FOCUS DATES: 1930s - 1940s

ABSTRACT: transients during Depression; Old Penitentiary Receiving Station; World War II evacuation plan for Baton Rouge; Community Chest; director of United Givers Fund; United Way; Arthur Belcher; agreement between Salvation Army and VOA over services offered; use of script; impact of Depression; VOA organizational structure; founding of VOA; Advisory Board of Baton Rouge chapter; work in exchange for shelter; VOA philosophy; VOA funding; transient women; role of women in VOA; VOA in the 1990s

Tape #: T1050

# of CASSETTES: 1 C-90 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 30 minutes

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 9

RESTRICTIONS: Copyright retained by interviewer and his/her heirs.