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PACE, Glenn W. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 0134
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” An account by one who escaped capture by the Japanese on Java during World War II. Fall of Java and evacuation by plane with the 19th Bombardment Group.
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PAINTER, Leon (b. 1921) U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 0214
His experiences at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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PAINTER, William E. (b. 1924) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, C Company, 1st Battalion, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division

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OH 1275
College professor. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His pacifistic/isolationist background and the influence of his mother; his parents' attitude toward Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; his personal dilemma over accepting induction into the military; induction into the Army summer, 1944; basic training, Camp Hood…
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OH 1053
Businessman. His experiences concerning the Kaiser Permanente Prudential Insurance Company joint venture in providing health care.
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OH 2082
For the Women in Business Oral History Project. Director of Client Services in the insurance industry. The interview spans her motivation and education leading up to her career, the diversifying workforce in the industry, and the impacts of current technology and COVID. She discussed her role in starting a Women In Business group in the past and…
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PAPISH, Paul E. (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0781
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Changi Jail, 1944-45; liberation.
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PARADEAUX, Will (b. 1933)Slade’s Saddle Shop

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OHB 0085
Owner, vice president, and manager, Slade’s Saddle Shop, Uvalde, Texas. Purchase of saddle business by grandfather, 1929; origins of saddle shop, 1883; changes in ranching industry since Depression; father’s employment as manager of shop; reminiscences concerning grandfather; comments on major considerations when “building” saddles; description of…
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PARKER, Walt (b. 1918) Texas House of Representatives Democrat

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OH 0051
Builder, farmer-rancher, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-first Legislature. Biographical information; revenue legislation; influence of lobbyists; state minimum wage law; creation of new four-year colleges; committee appointments; changes in state sales…
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OH 0158
Builder, farmer-rancher, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-third Texas Legislature. Freshmen legislators; reform legislation; appropriations; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
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OH 0287
Builder, farmer-rancher, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Selection of Bill Clayton as Speaker of the House; committee appointments; constitutional revision; public school financing; public utilities legislation; personal legislation.
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OH 0388
Builder, farmer-rancher, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Budget surplus; highway appropriations; public school financing; Peveto Bill and property taxation; personal legislation.
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OH 0084
Builder, farmer-rancher, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Democrat. 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…
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OH 1806
For Richard Rafes’s dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” Former Texas state legislator. Professional background; creation of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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PARR, Thomas E. (b. 1936) U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, Nurse Corps

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OH 0884
His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1971. Psychiatric casualties at Long Binh; heroin detoxification center at Cam Ranh Bay.
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OH 2057

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Barbara L. Parry is a professor of psychiatry focused on women's mood disorders, especially postpartum depression and premenstrual disorders. She discusses her training and early research in the field, her work with light therapy and with sleep and circadian rhythms…

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PARSONS, John (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0270
His experiences while aboard the tug USS Ontario during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1204
Homemaker. Her reminiscences about various aspects of the history of Denton, Texas, 1910-1976. Church activities; revivals; brush arbors; baptisms; Great Depression; courting; miscellaneous items.
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OH 1249
Graduate student. Her experiences in working with women's issues at the University of North Texas, 1993-97. Early education on the Isle of Man and in England; family background; searching for career choices; college years at Oxford Polytechnic College; student activism at Oxford Polytechnic; origins of her interest in women's issues; scholarship…
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OH 0286
Oilman. His career in the oil industry; Board of Regents, University of Texas. Rainey controversy; government service during World War II; political philosophy and activities.
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OH 0870
Physician, Holocaust survivor. His experiences during the Holocaust. Childhood in Budapest; family’s practice of Judaism; anti-Semitism before Nazi invasion; anti-Jewish laws in 1930s; Hungarian declaration of war against Soviet Union and formation of Jewish labor battalions, 1941; German occupation of Hungary, 1944; deportations from countryside…
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OH 0965
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-91. Youth in East Texas; education in segregated schools; decision to move to Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; Hamilton Park School; flooding problems; desegregation of Hamilton Park School and coming of Pacesetter; violations of deed restrictions;…
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OH 0925
Her experiences while growing up in Hamilton Park, Texas, 1957-70. Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
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OH 0034
Banker. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Port Aransas and Aransas Pass, Texas, 1920-70.
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PATTON, Howard L. (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, A Battery, 202nd Battalion, 607th Coast Artillery Regiment

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OH 1304
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Induction and stateside training, Camp Hulen, Palacios, Texas, and Camp Cook, Lompoc, California, 1942-43; operations in New Guinea, 1943-44; invasion of Toem, 1944; invasion of Leyte, 1944; invasion of Mindoro, 1944; eyewitness accounts of kamikaze attacks; operations around Zamboanga,…
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