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In the fall of 2009, the Cooperstown Graduate Program Class of 2011 completed oral history interviews with members of the Cooperstown community and surrounding villages of Otsego county, adding to the rich oral history database started by the Program…

Dr. Charles Schoenlein was born in 1929 in Queens County, New York. His upbringing encouraged a love of music and an active, involved life-style. Educated at Queens University and then at Columbia Dental School, Dr. Schoenlein met his wife, Louis,…

Geri Erwin grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. When she was twenty, she married her husband, Richard, nicknamed Marston, and together they had two children, Kristen and Matthew. Marston’s job as a high school administrator took the family first to…

Roger MacMillan is a longtime resident of Cooperstown, NY. Macmillan was born and raised Schenectady, NY in the years surrounding World War II, when the city enjoyed a national manufacturing reputation. As a young man, MacMillan left Schenectady to…

Pamela Washburn, originally from rural Ohio, arrived in Cooperstown in 1970 and has been involved in a number of community-oriented projects throughout the village since that time. A member of the League of Women Voters and a teacher, she has worked…

Wayne Wright is the Associate Director for the New York State Historical Association Library. He was born in Oneonta, New York and has lived there his entire life. Wayne grew up in a typical American family during the 1950s. During his childhood his…

Dennis Savoie was born on April 12, 1945 in Putnam, Connecticut. He moved to Cooperstown in 1971 for a two-year internship as a part of his general internist degree. After his internship, Savoie worked at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital and raised…

Leslie Gray was born on 8 April 1924 in East Springfield, NY and grew up on a hundred-acre dairy farm. In high school Gray was an active member of the Boy Scout Troop 47 and was the first troop member to become an Eagle Scout. With the Boy Scouts,…

Donald Fenner has lived a life filled with community involvement. Fenner was born in Herkimer, New York in 1930. Until he retired at age fifty-five, Fenner spent his life tied to the funeral business. Fenner worked at his uncle’s funeral…

JoAnn Van Vranken was born on April 4, 1959 in Cooperstown, New York. As a child she lived on a dairy farm and after graduating high school she attended SUNY Morrisville for an Associate’s Degree in Secretarial Science. She married in 1979 and…