Background
Ford, Victoria was born on November 1, 1946 in Carroll, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Victor Sargent and Gertrude Francis Ford.
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The Great Depression of the 1930s had a devastating impact on sparsely populated Nevada and its two major industries, mining and agriculture. Even prior to the national economic collapse, nature and overgrazing had rendered millions of acres in the arid state unusable. However, thanks to Nevada's powerful senate delegation, Roosevelt's New Deal funding flowed abundantly into the state. Among the programs thus supported was the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal program intended to provide jobs for unemployed young men and a pool of labor for essential public lands rehabilitation projects. In all, nearly 31,000 young men were employed in fifty-nine ccc camps throughout Nevada, most of them from outside the state. These "boys," as they were called, went to work improving the state's forests, parks, wildlife habitats, roads, fences, irrigation systems, flood control systems, and rangelands, while learning valuable skills on the job, through vocational courses, and in a formal education program intended to help them find employment when the economy improved. Rural communities near ccc camps reaped additional benefits when local men were hired as foremen and when the camps purchased supplies from local merchants. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada" is based on extensive research in private manuscript collections, unpublished memoirs, ccc inspectors' reports and other records, government documents, newspapers, and other sources, as well as on interviews with ccc veterans and personnel. The book also includes period photographs depicting the Nevada ccc and its activities. This is the first comprehensive history of the Nevada ccc, a program designed to help the nation get back on its feet, and of the "boys" who did so much to restore Nevada's lands and resources - and who in the process became men.
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oral historian public relations executive writer
Ford, Victoria was born on November 1, 1946 in Carroll, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Victor Sargent and Gertrude Francis Ford.
Associate of Arts, Iowa Lakes Community College, 1972. Bachelor summa cum laude, Buena Vista College, 1974. Master of Arts in Journalism, University Nevada, Reno, 1988.
Parole officer juvenile Iowa Department Social Services, Sioux City, 1974—1978. Staff reporter Feather Public Company, Quincy, California, 1978—1980. Training counselor Comprehensive Employment Training Act, 1980.
Officer library public information University Nevada, Reno, 1982—1984. Executive public relations Brodeur/Martin Public Relations, 1984—1987. Director public relations International Winter Special Olympics, Lake Tahoe (California) and Reno, 1987—1989.
Owner Ford Factor Public Relations consultant firm, Reno, 1989—2002. Retired, 2008
Staff writer Publications and Public Information Office Truckee Meadows Community College, 2001—2005. Communications specialist University Nevada Cooperative Extension, Reno, 2005—2008.
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Member advisory board Reno Philharmonic, 1985-1987, Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, 1985-1993. Board directors Truckee Meadows Habitat for Humanity, 1992-1993, half-time executive director, 1994. Member Governor's Committee on Fire Prevention, 1991-1992.
Member University Nevada Reno Oral History Program, 1994. Board directors Nevada Women's Archives, 1996. State secretary and roll of honor Nevada Women's History Project, 1998, 2001, committee Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, 1993-1996.
Board directors Friends of the University Nevada at Reno Library., 1995-1998. Member of National Organization of Women, Women Writing the West, Association Personal Historians, Southwest Oral History Association (board directors 2000-2002, State History Recording advisory board 2002-2008), Public Relations Society of America (charter vice president Sierra Nevada chapter 1986-1987, president 1987-1988), Sigma Delta Chi.
Married John K. Frans, July 4, 1965 (divorced August 1975). Married David W. Keller, May 2, 1981 (divorced November 1985). Married Jerry W. Lambert, March 30, 1991 (divorced August 2002).