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Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri

 Collection
Identifier: SR12251

Scope and Contents

This oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri was conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on November 2, 2017. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. In this interview, Allegri discusses her father’s work as a Philippine Scout for the U.S. Army during World War II; her family’s subsequent immigration to the United States from the Philippines in 1949; and her early life on a military base in Georgia, including her family’s experiences with racism. She describes moving to Palo Alto, California, in the early 1950s, growing up in a diverse community in the California Bay Area, and her high school experience. She talks about dropping out of college to help her sister raise her family after her sister's husband was killed during the Vietnam War. She discusses her marriage to Bill Allegri and living in Midwest while he completed his education and then taught high school. She describes the racism she experienced in the Midwest; returning to the Bay Area; and working as a freelance artist. She talks about completing her college degree at Colorado State University in 1989. Allegri talks about moving to Oregon in 1991, operating a wine shop with her husband from 2000 to 2014, and being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. She talks about her art, teaching watercolor classes, and some of her exhibits. She closes the interview by talking about her art collection and how her Filipino heritage influenced her art.

Dates

  • 2017 November 2

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Biographical note

Kathy Delumpa Allegri was born at Fort McKinley in the Philippines in 1948. She came to the United States with her family in 1949, when she was a year old. She grew up on a military base in Georgia. After her father retired from the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, the family moved to Palo Alto, California. She studied art and sociology at the University of California Davis, but put her studies on hold in 1969 to help her sister, whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War, to care for her young children. While continuing her education at Stanford University, she met Bill Allegri. They married and later had six children. She later completed her bachelor of science in art at Colorado State University in 1989. In 1991, she moved to Gresham, Oregon, and she began en plein air painting in 1992. She and Bill Allegri owned a wine shop from 2000 to 2014. She taught art classes at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon, and opened a gallery in Troutdale, Oregon.

Extent

884 Megabytes (1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 20 min., 30 sec.))) : WAV

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on November 2, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Allegri immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her family in 1949, when she was a year old, and later became an artist.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of The Immigrant Story, 2020 (Lib. Acc. RL2020-017).

Publication note

An article about Kathy Delumpa Allegri, "Painting Her History, Healing Through Art" by Paige Weide, was based on this interview and published on The Immigrant Story website at https://theimmigrantstory.org/art/.

Creator

Title
Guide to oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri
Status
Completed
Author
Sarah Stroman
Date
2020
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Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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