Agricultural expert. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Education at Kansas State College; experiences in agricultural marketing research; employment with the Production Marketing Administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration; employment at Topaz Relocation Center for Japanese Americans, 1942-44; induction…
Nurse. Her experiences as a civilian secretary with the State Department in Washington, D.C., before and during World War II. Educational background; decision to take a position with the State Department in early 1941; adjustments in moving from a town of 2,500 people to the nation's capital; personal observations of activities at the Japanese…
Draftsman. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II; fall of Wake island and capture; hell ship to China, 1942; Wusong Prison Camp, Shanghai, 1942; Kiangwang Prison Camp, 1942-45; Pusan, Korea, 1945; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1945; liberation.
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor; survivor of the Palawan massacre. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Enlistment in the Marine Corps and assignment to Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines; bombing of Cavite by the Japanese and evacuation to Corregidor; fall of Corregidor, 1942; his personal comments about…
Dallas clergyman and social activist. Childhood and education in Dallas; membership in Methodist Church; pursuit of undergraduate and MBA degrees from Southern Methodist University; career in banking and oil businesses; decision to enter Perkins School of Theology at SMU and Union Theology Seminary in New York; influence of Reinhold Niebuhr;…
McFATRIDGE, Mrs. Carl. Wife of Carl McFatridge and co-founder of Carl’s Tasty Sausage. His and her family backgrounds; founding of company; early production, distribution methods, problems; death of Carl McFatridge, 1967.
McFATRIDGE, Billy Ed. Son of founders, president of Carl’s Tasty Sausage. Early work experience; education; church ministry;…
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; Denton Christian Preschool; desegregation of public schools; meeting activities; social activities; comments about former…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Ellis County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Waxahachie, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
College professor. His experiences concerning his career as director of choral music and the development of the College of Music at North Texas State College and North Texas State University. Training with Westminster Choir; comments about Deans Wilfred Bain, Walter Hodgson, Kenneth Cuthbert, and Marceau Myers.
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her brief reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1905-1985; comments about the founding of Vaughn Town.
Attorney, former member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Democrat. General views concerning problems in Texas state government. Voter registration bill; appointment of committee members; campaign financial disclosure; ethics legislation; committee structure; appropriations and taxation; annual legislative sessions; lobby activities; insurance…
Insurance executive, former chair of the Texas State Board of Insurance, 1963-68; chairman of the Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas. Comments on the evolution of the State board of Insurance; insurance scandals of the mid-1950s; fire and casualty rate-making; automobile insurance; Johnson-Humphrey campaign in Texas.
College professor. His experiences concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, Denton, Texas, 1955-56. Race relations while growing up in Central Texas, 1930s and 1940s; his African-American friend, Jesse Fisher; racial climate in Denton during 1950s; comments about the role of the President of North Texas State College, James Carl…
Executive. Educational background; early work experience; employment with Texaco in China; comments about the Young Marshall (Chiang Hsueh-Liang); Texaco (China) marketing policies; Texaco’s product lines in China; formation of Caltex, 1936; transfer to Caltex; assignment to Caltex (India), 1937; expansion of the Indian market; employment with…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Long-time civil rights activist. Childhood in Dallas; memories of the black community; life during segregation; growing awareness of “race” and racism; participation in the Dallas NAACP Youth Council; Juanita Craft; interest in black history and black power; Dallas SNCC; assassination of Martin…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil rights activist. Childhood in Tennessee; Dallas life during segregation; involvement in the Dallas Progressive Voters League; experiences with racism; SNCC and SCLC activities; Dallas NAACP; civil rights activism; son’s (Ernest McMillan) activism; influential figures in life; current state of…
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; early experiences with gardening and self-sufficiency; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Entry into the Aviation Cadet Program, 1941; primary, basic, and advanced training, 1941-42; assignment to the 91st Bomb Group for B-17 training, 1942; characteristics of the B-17; stationing at Kimbolton, England, as assistant operations officer, September, 1942;…
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Marshall, Texas; move to Denton; North Texas State University Trailblazers; segregation; local civil rights protests; Denton history; Quakertown; changes in Denton; job discrimination.
