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OH 2003
For the Geezle Oral History Project. This interview traces the background of Alfred Edgar Greer from Snyder, TX, to his public school education in Decatur, TX. It continues with his two-years of study at Decatur Baptist College, where he starred for and captained the basketball team. It examines his continued academic pursuits at North Texas…
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OH 0824
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 878 at Camp SCS-37-T in Waxahachie, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
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GREGG, Robert (b. 1915) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 0069
Postal worker, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma Thailand death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Saigon, French Indo-China, 1944-45; liberation.
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GREGORY, Mike (b. 1948)Braniff International Airways

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OH 1956

Gregory, Mike: In-flight Service Coordinator (attended first class for male flight attendants). The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members…

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OH 2058

Griffen, Adrienne: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Adrienne Griffen is a postpartum depression policy advocate. She was a warmline volunteer for Postpartum Support International (PSI) mi the mid-2000s. Then she founded Postpartum Support Virginia (PSVa) in 2009, and served as executive director of…

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OHB 0094
Founder of Uvalde Producers Feed and Elevator, Inc., Uvalde, Texas. Family background; farming and education near Weslaco, Texas; employment with Texas A&M Extension Service; experiences during Depression in College Station, Texas; assignment as county agricultural agent for Jones and Brown Counties; employment with Quaker Oats Company…
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OHB 0076
Owner and operator, R & R Motor Supply, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; comments concerning work on Will Evers’s pecan farm and hiring out to pick cotton, Denton; employment in Bailey Mullins’s machine shop and auto parts store, 1935; description of merchandise and prices; employment with Public Construction Company building defense…
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OH 1823
Former Black Panther and long-time civil rights advocate. Family history; childhood in Fort Worth; life during segregation; process of integration; Civil Rights Act; changes in urban demographics; generation differences in living under segregation; civil rights participation; military service; Black Panther Party participation; March 1972 bank…
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OH 0715
Educator. His experiences concerning the integration of the Hamilton Park, Texas, school and the establishment of the Pacesetter program. His employment at the Hamilton Park School; federal desegregation suits; activities of Hamilton Park Civic League; decision to establish Pacesetter; fate of black teachers; PTA activities.
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OHB 0075
Owner of auto repair business, Denton, Texas. Family background; experiences moving from Georgia to Texas, 1919; description of work and education near Homer and Royston, Georgia; description of Denton, 1919; employment with Acme Brick; part-time work as auto mechanic and work in will Evers’s pecan Orchard, 1922; full-time employment as auto…
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OH 1251
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 708 at Camp Rabideau in Blackduck, Minnesota; description of camp; life in camp.
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OHB 0077
Owner and operator, Griffith’s Independent Ginner, Weinert, Texas. Family background; education in Texola, Oklahoma; part-time employment as cotton picker; involvement in building cotton gins and operating drug stores, West Texas, 1920s; operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, Weinert, Texas, 1927; comments on buying cotton and retaining…
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GRISSOM, Richard (b. 1925) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1176
Business executive. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Tirante in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; his training as an electrician’s mate; qualification examination; assignment to the Tirante, 1945; various patrols around the Japanese home islands.
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OH 1701
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Family history; Parker County farming history; childhood and education in Weatherford; Depression-era struggles; enlistment in U.S. Navy; World War II service; studies at Weatherford College, Duke University, and Duke Law; legal career with FBI, in private practice in Weatherford, and as Parker County…
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GROSS, C. R. (b. 1920) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0183
Civil servant. His experiences at Hickam Field with the Finance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0177
His experiences while employed by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
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GROTE, Richard (b. 1932) U.S. Air Force Veteran

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OH 1663
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Cold War-era Air Force veteran. Childhood in El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona; memories of Great Depression and World War II; father’s service in World War I; decision to attend University of Arizona and enter the U.S. Air Force ROTC program; assignment to Lackland AFB; training in…
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OH 1795
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Simple life advocate. Childhood in New Jersey; family losses; discovery of the Nearings and the simple life; memories of Scott and Helen Nearing; the Good Life Center.
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OH 0908
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Lubbock, Texas; transfer to Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
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OH 0116
Governor of Guam, 1963-72. His experiences as secretary of Guam during the governorship of Bill Daniel; economic and educational development of Guam; congressional bill for the establishment of an elective governorship for Guam.
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GUEST, Revella (b. 1912) U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps

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OH 0471
Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GUILES, Jake (b. 1920) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0133
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; coal mining at Histashi, Honshu, 1944; copper mining at Ashio; Niigata, 1945; liberation.
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GUIN, Jack (b. ca. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0758
His experiences while aboard the hydrographic vessel USS Sumner during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0737
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Decision to join the Fellowship; conditions in the African-American section of Denton; early Fellowship meetings; desegregation of public facilities; street paving in the African-American section of…
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OH 1902

GULLEY, Pat: For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; Fort Smith black community and interracial relations; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; educational and professional background; civil rights groups; contemporary race relations.

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