Interview with Jeuel Bannister Esmacher - OH 144

Interviewee

Jeuel Bannister Esmacher

Interviewer

Michelle Dubert-Bellrichard

Files

Streaming Media

Abstract

Jeuel Bannister Esmacher (1924-2022) attended Winthrop College from 1940 to her graduation in December of 1943. In this interview, she discusses her admission to Winthrop, her family, her decision to major in music, her classes and favorite professors (George Trumble and Dr. Roberts), her experience as a female band director for a high school, her experience with travelling to the University of Georgia for a charity event during World War II, her health issues and experience at the Winthrop infirmary, her experience as a music counselor at a girls summer camp, dorm life, her experience as a part of a band called “the Swanks,” Winthrop traditions, her experience with coupons during WWII, Winthrop during WWII, meeting her husband, her experience with cryptology courses and codebreaking in Washington D.C. during WWII, the Air Force cadets’ classes at Winthrop College during the war, her experience learning Japanese during the war and then Russian immediately after, her experience working at Arlington Hall, her life after she resigned from cryptography in 1950, and her experience at her class reunion in November of 2014.

Publication Date

1-20-2015

Unique Identifier

OH 144

Format

MP3; WAV;

Length

01:37:35

Restrictions

This interview is open for use.

Series

Alumni, World War II

Disciplines

Law

Keywords

Class of 1944, music department, The Swanks, the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, cryptography, ciphers, codes, Japanese, Russian, Arlington Hall

Recommended Citation

Esmacher, Jeuel Bannister, "Interview with Jeuel Bannister Esmacher - OH 144" (2015). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 144.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/103