ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW
George D. Woody
November 3, 1986
by Larry Lowenthal

0:00:13	Moved to Springfield in 1929 and stayed until 1933.
0:00:29	Moved back to Springfield in 1938 and stayed until 1944.
0:00:46	His father was a Captain during their first stay in Springfield.
0:00:57	During the second stay he became a Major then a Lieutenant Colonel then a full Colonel.
0:01:21	When they first came he was seven years old and lived in Quarters 6.
0:01:41	Talks about Lt. Urban Niblo and his family who lived in the other side of the duplex.
0:02:48	Went to grammar school on Bay Street then when they moved back the second time he went to Classical High School then went to MIT.
0:03:18	He went to grammar school in a military automobile driven by a Private or a Corporal.
0:04:05	Felt a little different from the other children because he felt fortunate to live on a beautiful reservation.
0:05:00	Would play volleyball and in the winter ice skate on a flooded area on the Armory grounds.
0:05:39	Talks about firing the cannon for lowering the flag and important visitors.
0:05:51	Had to stay outside and listen to the cannon even though he was afraid of the concussions.
0:06:27	Talks about how the enlisted men would open the breech of the cannon and ram something down the muzzle that looked like steel wool to make the firing louder.
0:07:14	Talks about Bldg. 6 and how he remembered the high ceilings and the how he would go exploring the chambers that were between the interior walls and the roof.
0:08:17	Had domestic help when they came back in 1938.
0:08:51	His mother would shop downtown in the central market.
0:009:36	Had their own car during their first stay in Springfield.
0:10:00	Father would come home and take a 20 minute nap at lunchtime.
0:10:38	Came back in 1938 and was the works manager at the water shops.
0:10:55	Talks about the build up before the Second World War and how his father would go to Cincinnati to research equipment for the Armory.
0:11:28	Father graduated as a Mechanical Engineer at Texas A & M then went into the Army and went overseas to France as a Lieutenant then was promoted to Captain in charge of an ammunition train.
0:12:32	His first job was purchasing new machine tools.
0:12:43	Lived in Quarters 4.
0:13:00	Talks about Quarters 4 with its long hallway and upstairs quarters for domestic help.
0:13:17	Talks about the woman who would help with the cooking and cleaning.
0:13:45	His mother was very active and also worked at the housework.
0:14:12	Talks about the parties at the Officer's Club.
0:14:40	Their were 45 Officers at the Armory at the peak of W.W. II.
0:14:55	Had attended Junior High in Texas and went directly to Classical when they moved back.
0:15:40	Was conscious of the fact that they lived at the Armory and felt appreciative.
0:16:25	Would discuss things about his work with his family.
0:16:40	Felt his father took problems with certain individuals too seriously.
0:17:19	After his duty at water Shops became works manager at the Federal Square Shops to replace Col. Ford who became General Ford.
0:17:42	Talks about Col. Ford who was assigned to North Africa and later became the Commanding General of the Ordnance Dept.
0:18:40	The Fords lived in Quarters 17.
0:19:00	When his father became Commanding Officer in Dec. of 1943 they moved to Quarters 17.
0:19:34	He was going to college in Boston and was in the ROTC and was away so much that he did not know the details about the period of his fathers command.
0:20:30	Father became ill in the summer of 1944 and spent his remaining days in Walter Reed Hospital until December of 1944.
Side B
0:21:13	Father had a rare liver disease.
0:21:36	Felt his father was over worked because he was an engineer not an administrator.
0:22:46	Had heard that his father got along well with the engineers and skilled workers.
0:23:29	Mother moved to Washington D.C. for 2 years then moved to Philadelphia then Salt Lake City.
0:24:24	Talks about his memories of Quarters 1.
0:24:34	Remembers the floors and the cupola and the servant's quarters.
0:25:10	Was assigned a Corporal Ziemba for domestic help.
0:25:52	Was a swimming pool between Quarters 3 and 4.
0:26:09	There was an area for Victory gardens.
0:26:32	Talks about the rose arbor behind Quarters 1.
0:27:36	Brought their own furniture to Quarters but does not remember if there was furniture belonging to the government.
0:28:14	Talks about how his family did a lot of entertaining among the officers and civilian friends in town.
0:28:52	The friends of his parents from their first period moved to Maryland.
0:29:39	Talks about his brother who was 3 and a half years younger who fought in Austria and Italy and got his degree at Dartmouth then became an editor for the Salt Lake City Tribune.
0:30:23	Thought that the Armory was the nicest post that they had been assigned to.