Interview with Father Joseph Kopecky, May 12, 1995, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-akvhs-0006-t1s1
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Title
Interview with Father Joseph Kopecky, May 12, 1995
Subject
Catholics, Priests, Family life, Floods, Kopecky, Father Joseph, St. Clement Church (Tarentum, Pa.)
Description
[t1s1]Joseph Kopecky talks about growing up in Tarentum in the 1920s to 1930s; the School Sisters of St. Francis as teachers at St. Clement School; the history of St. Clement; ethnicities in West Tarentum; funerals and St. Clement Cemetery. [t1s2] Joseph Kopecky speaks about why he became a priest; status and future of religious vocations; being a student at St. Joseph High School in Natrona and the Sisters of St. Joseph; summers working at Allegheny Ludlum; becoming a professional barber; attending St. Vincent College; work in chancery under Bishop Dearden; barber while a priest; St. Clement Church during the Depression; collectible glass; changes in industry in Tarentum; 1936 flood; St. Wenceslaus in 1970s floods. [t2s1]Joseph Kopecky talks about effects of 1936 flood in Tarentum; decline of Tarentum; his retirement.
Contributor
Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society (depositor), Kopecky, Joseph (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer)
Date
1995-05-12
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 125 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-akvhs-0006
Language
eng
Relation
Voices of Faith, Years of Change: West Tarentum Oral Histories, 1995
Coverage
Tarentum (Pa.)
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