Mr. Warn grew up in Pierce County, attened the Normal School, and taught school for a short time in Webster, Wisconsin.

Miss Wharton became a faculty member in the Music Department at the River Falls State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin-River Falls), River Falls, Wisconsin, in 1925. Most of the interview deals with her teaching career there, from 1925 to 1955. She discusses students, music programs and contests, the Music Department, am her teaching methods and experiences. She also has some very interesting memories of fellow faculty members she knew at River Falls, including Marvin Geere, Olen Junkman, James I. Mallott, and C.O. Stratton, to mention only a few. Miss Wharton also discusses changes that have occurred in the town of River Falls, Wisconsin, within her memory. A collection of the Wharton Family papers were donated by Miss Wharton to the State Historical Society, and are currently reposited at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Area Research Center.