Oral history interview with Mayo Rae Roy

Collection

Identifier: SR 9355

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This oral history interview with Mayo Rae Roy was conducted by Linda S. Dodds in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on September 10, 1981. At the time of the interview, Dodds’s name was Linda S. Brody.

In this interview, Roy discusses her early life in Portland, Oregon, including her early interest in table tennis. She talks about her career as a table tennis player, including her equipment and playing technique. She talks about tournaments she played in, including one in Japan just before the beginning of World War II. She closes the interview by speaking about her final tournament in 1952 and talking about how the sport changed.

Dates

1981 September 10

Creator

Roy, Mayo Rae, 1919-2005 (Interviewee, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Biographical note

Mayo Rae Roy, nee Rolph, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1919. She began playing table tennis in tournaments in 1933 while still in high school. In 1942, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. She was later a table tennis coach at Clackamas Community College. She married several times, and variously went by the names Mayo Rae Rolph, Mayo Rae-Rolph Barrett, Mayo Rae Roy, and Mayo Rae Miller. She died in 2005.