Randy Loftis, M.A., Lecturer in the UNT Mayborn School of Journalism, is an award-winning journalist with over thirty years of experience as an environmental and investigative reporter. His career path has afforded him a profoundly unique perspective on environmental awareness, environmental justice, and environmental policymaking in North Texas. Randy began his career at The Miami Herald covering the Everglades. He came to The Dallas Morning News in 1989 during a time when multiple green initiatives where occurring at the city, regional, state and national levels.

Growing up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the economy was based on industrial chemical production and coal mining, Stan Ingman experienced environmental degradation first-hand. An affinity for the outdoors and a concern for public health resulted in degrees in botany, rural communities and medical sociology. The “engaged university” offered a forum for multidisciplinary projects and research-based results.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Canadian-American immigrant to suburban Flower Mound, Texas. Childhood and education in Montreal and at Queen’s University in Ontario; experience as member of Anglophone minority and as a Jew in Quebec; first impressions of the U.S.; family history, including grandparents’ immigration from Europe; job offer from computer programmer in California; experiences with U.S.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Russian-born immigrant to suburban Plano, Texas.

Business executive. His experiences as a statistics control officer in the European Theater during World War II.

Salesman, electric furnace pioneer, corporation founder. Family background; education; rural schoolteacher; salesman of school equipment, electrical appliances; employment with Mathes; building dealerships; development of electric furnace; founding of Electric Products, Inc.; growth and expansion; selling out to Square D Electric.

For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA flight controller, communications officer, and manager. Childhood in Lufkin, Orange, and Huntington, Tex.; education at Stephen F. Austin State University and Lamar State College of Technology; career as mathematics teacher at Port Neches-Groves High School and in U.S.

Educator. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Family life and growing up around Groesbeck, Texas, during the Great Depression; his education through Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute; thoughts about Franklin D.

College professor, musician. His recollections concerning the development of the Electronic Music Center in the North Texas State University School of Music.