Longtime resident of Denton County, Texas, and former North Texas State Teachers College student. Memories of life on the Christal Ranch and other Denton Co.

His experiences in the Pacific Theater; and his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II.

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Jacksboro, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.

His experiences in the counterculture of Dallas, Texas, in the 1960s and his role in the founding of Notes from the Underground. Undergraduate years at Southern Methodist University; origins of Notes From the Underground; opposition by the SMU administration; clandestine printing of Notes at a Texas Instruments facility; conservatism in Dallas during the 1960s; comments about the co-founder of Notes, Bartee Haile; financing and distributing Notes; role of Brent Stein [a.k.a.

A combination of interviewing and reading from his personal correspondence about his pre-World War II experiences with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet (1937-1940) and his later experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Former dean of the North Texas State University School of Music, 1938-47. His experiences in the establishment of the NTSU school of music as one of national prominence. Education and musical background; appointment as chairman of the Department of Music; establishment of the NTSU School of Music and his appointment as dean; establishment of the jazz program; appointment as dean of the school of Music at Indiana University; comments about President W. Joseph McConnell, Silvio Scionti, Floyd Graham, Mary McCormic, Helen Hewitt, Walter Robert, Ralph Daniel, “Aces of Collegeland.”

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Childhood and education in Athens, Tex.; decision to enlist in U.S. Army; family’s tradition of military service; basic training at Ft.

College instructor, former assistant football coach at North Texas State University. His recollections concerning the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

Executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation.

His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.