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.
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;…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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 the organization. In…
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…
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…
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…
