Blanchard, Marie (December 19, 1925)

Abstract In her interview with Terri Schorzman on April 15, 2022, Marie Blanchard discusses her personal history and experience as a singer and board member for Boise Civic Opera. Marie begins the interview with discussing her training to be a nurse where she worked in a tuberculosis sanitorium and recounts being present for the first pneumonectomy. She next worked as a stewardess for Pan America, frequently flying to cities in Alaska prior to getting married; she describes the working...