Oral history interview with Vern B. Ryles [Session 07, Recording 02]
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- 1995-02-23
Tape 13, Side 2. In the seventh and final interview session, conducted on February 23, 1995, Ryles continues to discuss Nancy Ryles' career in public service. He talks about working with Portland Mayor Neil Goldschmidt on the Central Eastside Industrial Council and about the council’s efforts to improve the industrial district of East Portland. He also discusses the right-wing rhetoric by radio personalities at the time of the interview. He talks about his marriage to Nancy Ryles, and about her death from cancer in 1990. He closes the interview by discussing doing volunteer work in hospitals around the world, particularly Kenya, and by reflecting on his work to provide services to unhoused people.
Ryles, Vern B. (Vernon Barton), 1937-2013