Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project Recording with Chad Wahls
Chad Wahls came to Postville in 2001 and worked at the Postville schools for 15 years, serving as a principal for nine of those years. During his time working for the school in Postville Chad also coached many sports from girls basketball to boys football, baseball, and basketball. During his first...
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UNI ScholarWorks
2015
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/14 https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/postville_oralhistory/article/1013/type/native/viewcontent/Wahls_C_03022015.mp3 https://scholarworks.uni.edu/context/postville_oralhistory/article/1013/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Wahls_Online.pdf |
| Summary: | Chad Wahls came to Postville in 2001 and worked at the Postville schools for 15 years, serving as a principal for nine of those years. During his time working for the school in Postville Chad also coached many sports from girls basketball to boys football, baseball, and basketball. During his first year as Principal, the raid threw the town and the school into an unprecedented situation. Chad explains how the community and the school regrouped in the aftermath of the raid. Schools are often the foundation of small communities and that becomes clear in this interview as Chad describes how the school tried to meet the needs of all its students before and after the raid. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/1013/thumbnail.jpg |
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