Librarian. Her experiences as a student in the library school at Texas State College For Women, Denton, Texas, during the late 1930s and early 1940s; her professional career as a librarian.
Her recollections about Texarkana, Texas, 1915-50. Education; local industries; church activities; social clubs and fraternal organizations; women’s issues.
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, 1942-44; Changi Jail, Singapore, 1944; various railroad camps in Sumatra, 1944-45; liberation.
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1970-1971. Assignment to Chu Lai; temporary assignment to the 91st Evacuation Hospital at An Khe; TDY in Korea; combat experiences at An Khe and Da Nang; permanent assignment to Chu Lai; treatment of wounded troops; relationship between doctors and nurses; morale problems; recreation;…
His recollections of the military service of his four brothers during World War II. His youth on the family farm near Van Alstyne, Texas, in the 1930s; comments about his parents; his brother “Bud’s” military experiences with the 6th Infantry Division in the Southwest Pacific Theater (New Guinea and the Philippines); his brother Bailey’s…
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Republican. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. Biographical information; decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; one-year budget versus two-year budget; revenue legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown Stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal legislation.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Legislature. Freshman senators; comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; committee appointments; reform legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
His experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Need for constitutional revision; Price Daniel, Jr., as chairman of the Constitutional Convention; Finance Committee; right-to-work provision; failure of Constitutional Convention.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; personal legislation.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Texas Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; opposition to special session; repeal of sales tax on utility bills; modification of inheritance tax exemptions; ad valorem tax; agricultural land; initiative referendum; Peveto Bill;…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Relationship with Governor William Clements; appropriations; Budget Execution Act; consumer legislation; Peveto Bill; public school financing; comments about “Killer Bees”; separate presidential primaries.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Texas Legislature. Financing primary elections; appropriations bill; “lame ducks”; nomination of Larry Teaver to the State Insurance Commission; insurance legislation; Senate rules revision; nomination of Bob Bullock to the State Insurance…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Texas Legislature. Budget surplus; appropriations; highway bill; public school financing; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Auto mechanic His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Alvarado, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3804 at Camp SP-53-T near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
A founder of Spectra Biologicals of New Brunswick, N.J., and Nuclear Medical Labs of Dallas, Texas. Family background; employment at Wadley Blood Center, Dallas, and Herman Hospital, Houston: founding of Spectra Biologicals, 1961; innovations in blood typing serum products; involvement as salesperson for Texas and Louisiana territory; sale of…
Public relations executive, executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. His experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction…
Retired Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas. Childhood in east Texas; education and work history; move to librarianship; changes at UNT over the years; work at UNT Libraries; move to digital libraries; creation of UNT’s digital repository and the Portal to Texas History; logistics of creating a digital library;…
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the Assembly and Repair Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves (or SPARs). World War II-era veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserves (or SPARs). Childhood and education in Edwardsville, Virden, and Girard, Ill.; father’s experience in World War I; waitressing and clerical work…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and education in rural Tenn.; family’s experiences in the Great Depression; decision to attend University of Tennessee-Knoxville and major in mechanical engineering; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to join U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942; 1943 call-up; basic…
Younger sister of Gen. Curtis LeMay. Family history; Ohio farm life during the Great Depression; brother’s visits, including a fly-over in a B-36 aircraft; Lemay’s World War II service and work in the Pentagon thereafter; feelings about his vice-presidential bid as George Wallace’s running mate in 1968; perceptions of LeMay’s legacy.
Homemaker. Her experiences as the wife of a serviceman (William Haugh) who was in Europe during World War II. Her education and youth on the family farm; effects of the Great Depression on her family; effects of the Rural Electrification Administration on farm life; her marriage to William Haugh on October 4, 1941; birth of their first son on…
His experiences as a tank commander in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Europe during World War II. Prewar induction and training, Fort Benning, Georgia; North Africa landings, November, 1942; his role as a tank commander; evolution of tank tactics; invasion of Sicily, July, 1943; transfer of 2nd Armored Division to England, December, 1943;…
