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GRACE, Arthur R. (b. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0394
His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-11 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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GRAHAM, Bette C. (b. 1920)Liquid Paper Corporation

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OHB 0010
Founder, Liquid Paper Corporation. Her secretarial background; development of Liquid Paper formula; developing the organization and marketing approach; growth of organization, markets, product lines, technology; uniqueness of her philosophy and structure of company and profits stemming from her personal views of life as practitioner of Christian…
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OH 0631
Journalist, former sports information director at North Texas State University. His recollections of the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College while an assistant in the News and Information Office, 1956.
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OH 1528
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His first experiences with the Sixties counterculture at Allen’s Landing, Houston, Texas; his attraction to rock ‘n roll music; his earning the nickname “The Diller” from distributing Armadillo Comics in high school;…
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GRAHAM, William (b. 1919) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force

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OH 1325
Businessman. His experiences as a flight engineer on a B-17 in the European Theater during World War II. Basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1942; technical training at Consolidated Aircraft, San Diego, California, 1942; assignment as head of operations, Sioux Falls, Iowa, 1942-44; description of his functions as a flight…
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OH 2138

Grant, Serena. Participant in Our Stories, Our Justice, a participatory storytelling project that centers individuals and their communities in a collective effort to (re)produce oral and visual histories that shine light on a continuum of radical leadership by BIPOC and marginalized women.

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OH 1584
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Memories of childhood in West Dallas, Texas; experience of attending all-black schools and perceptions of how well that education prepared him for NTSU; decision to enter North Texas in Fall 1961 with intention to major in Commercial Art; decision to change major to Biology, with an eye…
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OH 1447
Her comments about the history of Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Early history of her descendents, the Sullivan family, 1856-1900; cattle raising and marketing; comments about the oil industry.
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GRAY, Hedwige Kaczanowski (b. 1914) U.S. Army WWII Veteran. Nurse Corps

Interview ID#
OH 0222
Her experiences at the Schofield Barracks hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 0650
Judge (211th district Court, Denton County, Texas). His recollections concerning the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
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OHB 0007
A founder of Texas Instruments. Family, education, and work background; education and experiences in electrical engineering; work and training with General Electric; development of Spencer Thermostat; work with Raytheon and Charles V. Litton; joining Geophysical Research in Oklahoma; meeting J. Erik Jonsson and rising through Geophysical Research…
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OH 1630
Alumnus of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in High, Texas; graduation from high school in 1959; initial decision to attend Paris Junior College and subsequent decision to attend North Texas beginning in 1961; campus life at North Texas, particularly involvement in Baptist Student Union; graduation with…
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OH 0854
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Childhood in Memel, Lithuania; education; Nazi occupation of Memel, 1939; moving to Kovno, Lithuania, 1939; Russian occupation, 1940; German occupation and life in the Kovno Ghetto, 1941-43; transfer to Stutthof concentration camp, 1943; death of her mother and sister, 1945; liberation by…
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OH 1719
Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in rural northern Alabama; farm life during the Great Depression; decision to enter CCC at the age of fifteen; experiences at CCC camps at Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi, Florence, Oregon, and Rainier, Washington; memory of Pearl Harbor; wartime rejection from U.S. Army; postwar decision…
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GREEN, John Plath (b. 1910) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0182
Attorney. His experiences as the officer in charge of the liberation of American and other Allied prisoners-of-war in Japan at the end of World War II.
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OH 1593
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. African American resident of Cisco, Texas. Memories of childhood in Robertson County, Texas, farming family; experience in one-room, all-black schoolhouse and E.A. Kemp High School; marriage to Roland Green and decision to move to Abilene, Texas; separation from Roland Green and…
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GREEN, Virgil (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

Interview ID#
OH 0531
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 31st Bombardment Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 2167

Joycelyn Green, an educator from Knoxville, Tennessee, discusses her journey from being a student-athlete at Prairie View A&M University to becoming a dedicated teacher with over 26 years of experience. She reflects on her upbringing in a predominantly white community and how attending an HBCU exposed her to a supportive environment where…

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OH 1015
Her experiences while employed by the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texarkana, Texas, during World War II. Hiring procedures and job assignments; relationships between male and female workers.
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OH 1687
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Brandenburg an der Havel and Graudenz, Germany; escape to Berlin from advancing Soviet army in 1944, and again from Berlin to Bavaria in 1945; family’s experiences with occupying U.S. Army forces; marriage to an America GI; memories of first trip to U.S.; travel due…
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GREENWOOD, Robert (b. 1921) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 0230
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 16th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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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

Interview ID#
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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