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Collins, Naomi F The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project NAOMI F. COLLINS Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial Interview Date: February 9, 2012 Copyright 201 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born and raised in New York City NY $ueens College, City University of ew York( University of Indiana: Harvard University( Moscow State University ,ork at Settlement House Anti-female bias Racial prejudice 0rowing up in Brooklyn Indiana environment Teacher Assistant, Indiana University Marriage to FSO 1ames Franklin Collins Russian language study Moscow, Russia( Moscow State University( student 1235-1233 Environment Students 60B America maga7ine Russian views of America Russian assigned 8friends9 Daily living Lack of basics and amenities 8Escape9 to London London, England: Research at British Museum 1233-1237 Environment Oliver Cromwell Commissions 8Commission for Ejecting Scandalous, Ignorant and Insufficient Ministers and Schoolmasters9 Thesis Lam.eth Palace Li.rary Bodleian Li.rary (Oxford) Oliver Cromwell and the disintegration of the Church 1 English 8Revolution9 Annapolis, Maryland: Constitutional Convention of Maryland, 1237-1232 Research Staff Drafting Bill of Rights FSO Hus.and, Professor at Naval Academy Birth of son ,ashington, D.C. riots Senior Seminar Aietnam ,ar Racial segregation Arlington, Airginia: Accompanying FSO hus.and at Foreign 1232 Service Institute (FSI) Comments on ,omenBs issues I7mir, Turkey: Accompanying FSO hus.and 1232-1271 8Duties9 of wives Archaeological sites Environment ATO base Local friends Congressional delegations Security Aer.al harassment Family Aice Chair American ,omenBs Clu. Parents visit Birth of son 1onathan History teacher, University of Maryland, I7mir campus ,ashington, DC: Awaiting hus.andBs FS assignment 1272-127C Hus.and accompanying Soviet exhi.it in US Comments on Foreign Service life House-hunting Comments on dissertation Hus.andBs illness Moscow, Russia: Accompanying FSO hus.and 127C-1275 ,ork in Pu.lic Affairs Office li.rary as Contact Management System Contact Officer Housing Am.assador ,alter Stoessel Environment Daily living pro.lems 2 Household help Restrictions on contacts Staff divorces Professional counseling Em.assy radiation and cancer Pollution Access to world news Comments on Russian pu.lic Attitudes toward regime 1ewish community Dissidents The Arts Surveillance Stress Russian children ,ashington, DC (Hus.and assigned to State Department) 1275-1282 Enjoyment of environment ,ork at Li.rary of Congress, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Research, 17th Century English Radicals ,ork at Institute for cultural programs a.out the Muslim ,orld (Middle East InstituteE) Traveling exhi.its Children of A.raham Iranian hostage taking ParentsB views on Islam and other religions Am.assador Lucius (Luke) Battle Advisory Committee mem.ers Religious tolerance 8,hat is IslamE9 Hartford Seminary MotherBs illness ChildrenBs education ,ashington, DC( Executive Director( MD Humanities Council 1281-1222 Programs Funding CultureBs New Frontier: Staking a Common 0round The National Endowment for the Humanities Discussion on race and religious issue Hus.andBs assigned to Amman, 1ordan (1282-1284) Temporary Separation Separation allowance pro.lems State Department response to spouse and family issues Family visits of Amman C Em.assy wivesB views on spouse and family separations ChildrenBs education Hus.and return to State Department Maryland politics Racial mix History projects Underground Railroad Historic Black Colleges and Universities La.or, ethnic mix ,ashington, DC: Executive DC Director, AFSA: Association 1222-1227 of International Educators Agenda and Programs Aisiting ChargG hus.and in Moscow (127C-1275) Changes in Russia Role of wives in Moscow em.assy Moscow environment Attempted coup (1221) and outcome YeltsinBs message of assurance to President H.,. Bush Russian characteristics C reporting from Moscow 0or.achev Am.assador Strauss Return to ,ashington Organi7ation history Mem.ership International Exchange Programs English as Second Language 0eneral operations Foreign meetings Foreign female representation Foreign students in US Effect of 2/11 Chinese students AFSABs oversight role US government relations Student visas ational Association of Foreign Student Advisors ( AFSA) Moscow, Russia: ,ife of the United States Am.assador 1227-2001 Responsi.ilities Spaso House Russian agriculture Population growth Status of women Role of the Am.assadorBs wife 4 Family Liaison Offices (FLO) Pro.lems of spouses at post Aisiting museums Changes in surveillance Muslim population Chechens Theater Industrial production American business interests Summary of Professional activities Project work( research, writing, analysis and evaluation US Department of Education projects American Council of Education proposals US and foreign educational projects Author: Through Dark Days and ,hite Nights( Four Decades O.serving a Changing Russia Additional Comments Foreign Service Examination Aisi.le changes in Moscow and Russia after Communism Comments on days in Russia over four decades and its future Addenda References to pu.lications by this author in this interview INTERVIEW Q: Today is 9 February 2012. This is an interview with Naomi F. Collins. What does the F stand for) COLLI S: Feldman, my maiden name. Q: This interview is on behalf of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and I am Charles Stuart Kennedy. Do you go by Naomi) COLLI S: Yes. Q:+ Naomi,+ by the way I just chec-ed on it. In Hebrew it means /beautiful+ and in 0apanese it means both+ beautiful+ and /honest+. COLLI S: ,ell this is good to hearJ I only recently learned of the 1apanese meaning from 1apanese visitors. And IBve heard that the He.rew word has also been interpreted as 5 8pleasant.9 But I was named 8 aomi9 for the more mundane reason that my mother was named 8Ruth,9 and taken with the lovely mother / daughter (actually mother-in-law, daughter-in-law) story in the Bi.le. This is the good news. The bad news tuned out to be that people often mis-spell or mis-pronounced it. Q: Well they are the same people who tal- about the A1rabs. COLLI S: Pro.a.lyJ So that is how I started out. A little girl with a big name. Q: 2K, well let3s start out. When and where were you born) COLLI S: I was born in Brooklyn in 1anuary 1242. I just had my 70th birthday. ,e lived in a very small apartment in a neigh.orhood that would now be called 8ethnic,9 but was then just 8normal9 for ew York City and its boroughs. Q: Well let3s start on your father3s side. What do you -now about where they came from) COLLI S: Both my fatherBs and my motherBs families came from areas that have been at different times in different countries. They were in Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, and/or Russia. I recall that my fatherBs mother came from what today is Ekaterinoslav and his father from Brest-Litovsk on the border of Poland and Russia. I believe they all lived within the 8Pale,9 the region to which 1ews were confined. Q: What was your grandfather, grandparents doing) COLLI S: They were all very young when they emigrated, around 13 or 17 years old. My fatherBs father joined his older brother in America. My fatherBs mother joined her father. My maternal grandfather reported that he escaped in the dark of night to avoid possi.le arrest for his revolutionary political activity, and may have joined cousins in the States. My maternal grandmother likely joined cousins on her arrival alone at a.out 13 years old. Q: So they got to the States when, around the turn of the century. COLLI S: Pro.a.ly around or just after 1205. Q: Then where did they settle and what were they up to) COLLI S: My fatherBs mother moved in with her father into a rooming house/tenement in lower Manhattan. She worked as a seamstress. He, although educated to be a Ra..i, chose instead to work as a carpenter. She was the oldest child so she had to migrate first. They both worked full time to pay for the passage of one child at a time, her sisters and .rothers, to come join them in the States, through a.out eight children, until at the last shipment, they brought her mother / his wife /with the remaining children, those that had .een ba.ies at the time they had emigrated some 10 years earlier. 3 My fatherBs father joined his brother, already working as a custom tailor on Fifth Avenue. They sat side by side for the next 30 years or so creating fine suits and dresses for ladies and gentlemen who brought their excellent Scottish and English wools for working. And sometimes the luscious fa.ric remnants and scraps trickled down to my mother and me. My motherBs father worked in several crafts in the U.S. K ca.inet making, mirror and window glass, shades K furnishing homes. After she married, my maternal grandmother worked with him in the shop, bookkeeping and organi7ing things. Her father, she told us, had been the manager of a large estate in Ukraine owned by Polish landowners. She grew up on what she referred to as a farm, a very rural setting in which she milked the cows and did other chores. She lost her mother at an early age: her mother died in child.irth after having had a num.er of children. Q: Had the 4reat War started) COLLI S: They were already settled in the States before ,orld ,ar I. A good thingJ Q: Were there any stories that came down to you about the Cossac-s or life in the Shtetl or that sort of thing) COLLI S: Ekaterinoslav (now called Dniepopetrovk), where my paternal grandmother was born and raised, was a fairly ur.an center, not a village. She had seen railroad trains and steam.oats as a child. And we learned that her father had chosen when he educated his sons, her brothers, to have the tutor teach his daughters as well.
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