Mr. Richard Tarrence on Education and Employment
- Title:
- Mr. Richard Tarrence on Education and Employment
- Creator:
- Richard Tarrence; Rachel Talbot Ross
- Date Created:
- 2002-05-17
- Description:
- Richard Tarrence was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1945, the second-oldest of seven siblings. His parents moved to Ohio from the South in the 1930s; his maternal grandfather was a bishop in the AME church, and his paternal grandfather was a sharecropper. He was drafted in 1965 and spent four years in the Air Force, including time in Vietnam. He married his ex-wife, Loretta Wilson, who was from Maine, and they moved to Portland in 1975. He completed a degree in Criminal Justice at USM in 1979, and spent twenty-two years working for Allstate Insurance. The family lived in Portland, South Portland, and eventually settled in Gorham. At the time of this interview, Tarrence was the chairman of the board of Green Memorial AME Zion Church, and was involved with the Health 2000 AIDS awareness program there.
- Subjects:
- Education Employment
- Location:
- Portland, ME
- Latitude:
- 43.65830234
- Longitude:
- -70.25811361
- Source:
- University of Southern Maine, Ross, Rachel Talbot and Tarrence, Richard (2002). Home Is Where I Make It Oral History Project. 5.
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Digital Commons URL:
- https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/aa_hiwimi/5/
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Mr. Richard Tarrence on Education and Employment", We Exist Series 5, Digital Projects - University of Southern Maine Libraries & Learning
- Reference Link:
- acg-floating-204-197-4-76.acg.maine.edu/weexist5/items/we5_063.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/