{"id":6243,"date":"2017-05-31T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:16:22","slug":"researching-sister-genevieve-lantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/researching-sister-genevieve-lantz\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching Sister Genevieve Lantz"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Paige Scofield\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n
The current exhibit in Hamersly Library is one for the books. After four journals that dated back to World War I were donated to Western, student Max Norr, senior social science major with a history focus, got the chance to research them and turn them into an exhibit.\"\"<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re four journals that belonged to a nurse in World War I, named Sister Genevieve \u2018Birdie\u2019 Lantz, and she was from Canada,\u201d explained Norr. \u201cShe moved to Boston to study nursing, and then when the war started, she went over to France with a Harvard Surgical Unit. [The journals] weren\u2019t her diaries, she had her patients, from all of the wards that she worked in and managed, she had her patients write in them. So they would write their experiences, they wrote jokes, they wrote stories, they drew pictures, there\u2019s some amazing art.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew nothing about Sister Lantz, except that her name was Lantz, because she wrote \u2018G. Lantz\u2019 in the journals,\u201d said Norr. \u201cThe owners of the journals found them at an estate sale or an antique shop, they found these four books, and they were just looking for somebody to research them. So Dr. Jensen was like, \u2018hey, this would be a really cool, I think you should research these. I think that we could make a really good practicum for it.\u2019 So that\u2019s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal was to create an online blog exhibit, website, type-thing , and I would find certain entries within the books that I wanted to research further, so I did five, and then one extra for Sister Lantz herself,\u201d Norr said passionately. \u201cI found one on the 1914 Christmas Truce, I did an exhibit on all the art that was in the books, one on propaganda and one on neutrality, and a few other ones. It was amazing because no one had ever seen them before. Nobody had ever researched these, it was all new information, all new material. So it was just me using Ancestry.com<\/a>, corresponding with other researchers, I\u2019ve talked to people in Australia, Canada, Britain, all these different people, I scoured newspapers for information about the Harvard Surgical Unit. No one knew about this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
After countless hours of research Norr created a blog called \u201cThe Record Keeper,\u201d which you can visit at www.record-keeper.blogspot.com<\/a>. The journals themselves were found in Klamath Falls, Oregon at an estate sale for one of Sister Lantz\u2019s grandson or son\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe died in the mid-1960s, so she\u2019s been gone for a while, but it was right here in Oregon. So that\u2019s what\u2019s really cool, we got to make that connection,\u201d said Norr. \u201cShe came all the way from Canada, and France from all these different places and her journals ended up in Oregon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The exhibit will continue to be in Hamersly Library until summer break begins.<\/p>\n
Contact the author at journalcampuslife@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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