Ventura Junior College Graduation Vespers, 1971

Ventura Junior College Vespers, 1971 & Audio Letter from Korea to Sweden
Side 1 & part of side 2: Ventura Junior College Vespers service, Ventura, California, 13 June 1971.
Side 2: Oscar & Hellen Audio Letter from Pusan Korea, 19 January 1972.

Speakers
Side 1: Doris Holmquist & others
Side 2: Oscar & Hellen Rinell

Language(s)
Side 1: English
Side 2: English & Swedish

Places Mentioned: Side 2
India, Pakistan, Korea, Sweden.

People Mentioned: Side 2
Lennie (Lennart Holmquist)
Roy Rinell
Dodo (Doris Rinell Holmquist)
Jan (probably Jan Front, good friend of Roy)
Ludde Colldén (sister of Hellen Rinell)
Helga (a town official apparently)
Jim (probably Jim Jones who later went by the name of Jim Jonell)
Carlsson Family

Digital Conversion by
Lennart Holmquist

Background
In 1948 at only fifteen and a half years old Doris, whose nickname was 'Dollan' at that time, started as a nurse trainee at Faber Krankenhaus (Faber Hospital) in Tsingtao, China. Her training was cut short when she and her family left for Sweden for their sabbatical. Dollan continued nurses training in Sweden, but her training again was cut short when she caught polio. During this time she began writing a U.S. marine she had met in Tsingtao, Bernard (Bud) Holmquist. Their relationship deepened. Bud asked Dollan to marry him. Dollan was reluctant. She wanted to complete nurses training first and become a Registered Nurse (RN). Bud said she could continue training in the States.

Dollan took the Mauritania to America and married Bud. The year was 1948.

However, Dollan's dream of continuing her nurses training to become a Registered Nurse did not happen. It remained a dream.

Dollan and Bud, and their two young kids Lennart and Meilynn moved to California. Carey and Carolynn (Cookie), the next two members of the family, were born in California. Over the years Dollan, who went by Doris now, worked as a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) under the supervision of doctors and Registered Nurses.

In 1969 or 1970 Doris entered the nursing program and Ventura Junior College in Ventura, California. In 1971 she graduated becoming an Registered Nurse. Not only did he graduate, but she earned the California Nurses Association Award and the Student Nurse of the Year Award. Because of her high standing she spoke at the graduation vespers service. After the speech she gave a prayer.

Doris mailed audio cassette tape recording of the vespers service to her missionary parents in Pusan, Korea. They in turn recorded on the second half of side two in an audio letter to their son Roy Rinell in Sweden. Oscar encourage his son to be sure that the tape was not recorded over, and thus deleting the original recording, because the tape had "historic interest", i.e. the graduation of his sister Dollan. Oscar goes on to speak of the speed or lack of speed of mail between Sweden and Korea, the superiority of Kodak over Agfa film (both he and Roy were amateur photographers, negotiations for the purchase of the property on which the family's cabin, Sulatorp, was to be built and the problem of finding drinkable water. Hellen Rinell finishes the tape in Swedish.

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