Film, Video Audio Recording Mary Jo (Kulesza) Veluzat and Phillip L. Veluzat interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-06-24

Title

• Mary Jo (Kulesza) Veluzat and Phillip L. Veluzat interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-06-24

Summary

• Mary Jo Veluzat, former Assistant Chief of Maintenance, and her partner Phillip Veluzat, former Chief Ranger, have deep, lifelong connections to Mammoth Cave National Park. Mary Jo's father was the Superintendent of the Park, and Phillip is a native of Cave City. Reflecting on her experiences growing up as the child of a ranger, Mary Jo discusses family dynamics and her father's career, and her decision to leave her first job in medical technology and join the National Park Service, too. Her first NPS job involved monitoring radon levels in the caves during the summer, when it was discovered to have a harmful effect on park employees. She took advantage of the ongoing computerization and digitization of park records and began working on the maintenance office budget. Phil Veluzat, a former military policeman, took a job in the NPS as a law enforcement ranger after it began professionalizing in the 1970s. He recounts run-ins with bike gangs, marijuana growers, poachers, thieves, and a particularly rowdy group of campers. Together, the couple discuss changes in the park, including computerization, changing gender dynamics, budget problems, and decreased geographic career mobility.

Names

• Veluzat, Phillip L., interviewee
• Veluzat, Mary Jo, interviewee
• Björkman, Brent, interviewer
• Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor

Created / Published

• 2014-06-24

Headings

• -  Veluzat, Phillip L.--Interviews
• -  Veluzat, Mary Jo--Interviews
• -  Architecture
• -  Children of working parents
• -  Park rangers--Clothing and dress
• -  Work and family
• -  Job postings
• -  Job vacancies
• -  Mentoring
• -  Office politics
• -  Quality of work life
• -  Sex discrimination in employment
• -  Sex role in the work environment
• -  Supervisors
• -  Technological innovations
• -  Park rangers--Wages
• -  Park rangers--Kentucky--Interviews
• -  Park naturalists--Kentucky--Interviews
• -  Women park rangers--Kentucky--Interviews
• -  National parks and reserves--Kentucky
• -  National parks and reserves--Employees--Kentucky
• -  Park rangers' spouses--Interviews
• -  Police--Kentucky--Mammoth Cave National Park

Genre

• Sound recordings
• Video recordings
• Interviews
• Oral histories
• Personal narratives

Notes

• -  Recorded in Cave City, Kentucky, June 24, 2014.
• -  Ranger Lore: The Occupational Folklore of Park Rangers, Archie Green Fellows Project, 2013-2015 (AFC 2013/014: 01004) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers.
• -  In English.

Medium

• 16 video recordings (01:26:58) : digital, sound, color, mov
• 1 sound recording (01:26:58) : digital, wav
• 1 manuscript : pdf, text file

Source Collection

• Ranger Lore: The Occupational Folklore of Park Rangers, Archie Green Fellows Project, 2013-2014 AFC 2013/014: 01004

Repository

• Library of Congress American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2013014.afc2013014_01004_mv
• afc2013014.afc2013014_01004_sr01
• afc2013014.afc2013014_01004_ms03

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020785337

Rights Advisory

• Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

Access Advisory

• Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact

Online Format

• image
• audio
• video
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020785337

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• Dublin Core Record