Longtime North Texas music professor and wife. Bob Rogers’ childhood in Bartlesville and Tulsa, Oklahoma; education at Julliard School of Music and Columbia Teachers College; service in World War II-era Army; and career as faculty member in North Texas School of Music (piano) from 1948 to 1984, including experience with State Senator Lyndon B.…
College professor, former director of the North Texas State University News Service, former university administrator. His recollections concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56. Admission of A. Tennyson Miller, 1954; Adkins case, 1955-56; admission of Mrs. Irma E. L. Sephas, 1956; role of President J. C. Matthews in the…
President, Mary Kay Cosmetics. Recollections of his mother’s
(Mary Kay. selling career and its impact on her own company; relations with sales personnel;
their decision to form own company; marketing and sales motivation; wig business; pricing; dual
management system; legal aspects and government regulations; views on government
regulation, self-…
Businessman, contractor. His role in the development of
Hamilton Park, Texas, during the 1950s. Efforts of Dallas Home Builders Association to establish
residential neighborhoods for African Americans; role of Karl Hoblitzelle and Hoblitzelle
Foundation; Dallas Citizens Interracial Association; selection of Hamilton Park site; role of Jerome…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexicanborn
immigrant to North Texas, restaurateur in Krum, Texas. Childhood in a mountainous village
in the state of Puebla, Mexico, and how he fulfilled his dream of coming to the U.S. to become a
successful businessman/entrepreneur.
Oilman, geophysicist. His work experience with Petty Geophysical
Engineering Company doing refraction seismic work; employment with Geophysical Service, Inc.,
doing reflection and refraction work, 1936; oil exploration in South America; work in oilfield
instrumentation equipment; work as a “computer” interpreting geological data; founding of…
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project.
Longtime resident of Cisco and Eastland, Texas. Memories of education in Cisco’s all-black,
one-room Smithville Elementary School that included grades 1-6; negative experiences in newly
desegregated schools; perceptions of different treatment accorded to young black men and
young…
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15, USS Randolph, USS Noble. His experiences as a PT boat skipper in the North African and European Theaters and various other duties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early naval career, 1941-42; assignment to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Center, Melville, Rhode Island, October, 1942; association with…
Co-founder (with husband Herman, deceased) of Tex Glass,
Inc., Decatur, Texas. Family background; education in Brooklyn, N. Y.; teaching career; her
knowledge of husband’s family background and his life in Europe during Hitler era; his technical
training, work in glass factories; starting his own glass factory in Vienna; fleeing Nazis and…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater in World War II. Childhood in Alabama, learning to fly; enlistment in the Air National Guard; Army Air Forces flight training; bombing missions over Germany; career as an American Airlines pilot; 381st Bombardment Group…
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; pre-flight training, San Antonio, 1942-43; primary flight training, Cimarron Field, Oklahoma City,…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Westbrook and Dublin, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 849 at SP-36 at Lake Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during
World War II in the Pacific Theater. Marianas invasion; Carolines invasion; Battle of Leyte Gulf;
Battle of Surigao Strait; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Kurile operations and occupation of Japan.
Naomie Rudelson shares experiences as a retailing executive whose career grew in the Dallas fashion scene. While her first fashion experiences were working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans and then working at Dalton’s while attending Louisiana State University, shortly after graduation she moved to Dallas to complete a junior executive training…
Businessman. His observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-68. Ruhmann Manufacturing Company; rural social life.
