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STRITTMATTER, Joseph (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
STRITTMATTER, Joseph (b. 1919)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0210
His experiences with VP-24 at Ford Island Naval Air Station during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 08/06/1974
STRNAD, John C. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
STRNAD, John C. (b. 1921)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0417
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Allen during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 29/03/1978
STROBEL, Naran “Nora” Dorj (b. 1971)
STROBEL, Naran “Nora” Dorj (b. 1971)
Interview ID: OH 1737
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mongolian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas, surgical technician. Granddaughter of Dorj Cembel, first state governor for the Bulgan State and Selenge State in Mongolia. Born and raised in Ulan Bator, Mongolia; education in Mongolia, China and United States; life in Communist Mongolia; aftermath of Perestroika; emigration from Mongolia; citizenship; marriage and family in the United States.
Date of Interview: 06/03/2011
STRONG, Raymond D. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
STRONG, Raymond D. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 1124
His experiences with Base Communications on Ford Island during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/12/1995
STROUD, James (b. 1914)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.
STROUD, James (b. 1914)
Texas House of Representatives. Democrat.Interview ID: OH 0087
Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, 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; personal legislation.
Date of Interview: 27/06/1971
Interview ID: OH 0090
Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences as an employee in the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
Date of Interview: 06/08/1971
Interview ID: OH 0150
Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. House speakership races; selection of committee chairmen; House rules changes; Governor Preston Smith’s one-year budget; insurance legislation; comments about Governor Smith.
Date of Interview: 28/11/1972
STROUD, Wendolyn (b. 1927)
STROUD, Wendolyn (b. 1927)
Interview ID: OH 1923
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Childhood memories growing up in a family as one of eight children in Weatherford, TX during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 25/02/2010
STROUD, Wendolyn (b. 1927) and DAVIS, Donald (b. 1935)
STROUD, Wendolyn (b. 1927) and DAVIS, Donald (b. 1935)
Interview ID: OH 1923A
For the Weatherford Oral History Project. Sister and brother sharing childhood memories growing up in a family of eight children in Weatherford, TX during the Great Depression.
Date of Interview: 30/03/2010
STUTH-WADE, Robert (b. 1953)
STUTH-WADE, Robert (b. 1953)
Interview ID: OH 1499
Artist. Recollections of his relationship with Dallas painter Perry Nichols, 1971-1985. His early interest in drawing and art; his introduction to Nichols; comments about Nichols’s marital life and alcoholism; Nichols’s teaching style and mentorship; his description of Nichols’s studio; his comparison of Nichols’s lifestyle to that of Ernest Hemingway; his critique of Nichols’s works and work habits; his criticisms of abstract expressionism; Nichols’s marriages; comments about the “Dallas Nine” and Nichols’s contribution to the Texas art scene.
Date of Interview: 19/02/2003
SUDDUTH, Joseph (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.
SUDDUTH, Joseph (b. 1921)
U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0797
His experiences with B Company, Barracks Detachment, at the Marine Barracks between Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 05/07/1990
SULLIVAN, Mary George Billingsley (b. 1908)
SULLIVAN, Mary George Billingsley (b. 1908)
Interview ID: OH 1682
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton County resident. Family history; farming life, religious practice, and education in the public schools of Argyle, Texas; marriage to Carson Sullivan and 1929 move to city of Denton; work for Denton Building and Loan Association; 1951 move to Dallas and 1973 return to Argyle; recollections of Influenza epidemic, Great Depression, World War II, and Kennedy assassination; admiration for Barack Obama.
Date of Interview: 26/11/2009
SUMMERLIN, Granville T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
SUMMERLIN, Granville T. (b. 1919)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 0543
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, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944, and American air raids; Bangkok, 1944-45; liberation.
Date of Interview: 09/06/1981
SUMMERS, J. L. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.
SUMMERS, J. L. (b. 1921)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran. 2nd Battalion. 131st Field Artillery. Texas National Guard.Interview ID: OH 1079
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 and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance work in Burma, 1944; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1944-45; Bangkok, 1945; liberation.
Date of Interview: 21/08/1995 to 22/08/1995
SUN, Hui (b. 1968)
SUN, Hui (b. 1968)
Interview ID: OH 1831
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Childhood in China; education; family dynamics in China compared to United States; children; decision to immigrate; Chinese culture; importance of language; American parenting; importance of religion and family; community building in Plano; Chinese military service.
Date of Interview: 18/11/2012
SURRATT, Jessie Marie (b. 1915)
SURRATT, Jessie Marie (b. 1915)
Interview ID: OH 1063
Her recollections concerning women’s lives in Texarkana, Texas, during the Progressive Era. Childhood descriptions of business community; “Swampoodle” and speakeasies and prostitution; folk medicines; funeral practices; education; stay at Fort Worth Masonic Home; memories of parents; church activities; mother’s membership in Maccabees; gender roles; child rearing; holiday customs.
Date of Interview: 28/10/1994
SWAIM, Kenneth (b. 1939)
SWAIM, Kenneth (b. 1939)
Interview ID: OH 1854
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Lifetime Tolar, Texas resident. Childhood in Tolar; rural life; memories of segregation; race relations in Tolar; visits to Fort Worth; work experience; electrifying rural Texas; integration of little league sports; post-World War II changes to rural Texas; John F. Kennedy assassination; desegregation in Tolar.
Date of Interview: 13/03/2014
SWAIN, C. N. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.
SWAIN, C. N. (b. 1924)
U.S. Navy WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0676
His experiences while aboard the auxiliary repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date of Interview: 16/04/1986
SWETLICK, Stephan (b. 1900)
SWETLICK, Stephan (b. 1900)
Interview ID: OHB 0106
Farmer-rancher, Robstown, Texas. Family background; farming and social activities near Hillje, Texas; comments on preserving meat; description of family farm auction, 1924; employment as cottonseed culler operator, Robstown, 1925; establishment of meat delivery route, 1925; operation of cafe; comments on leasing farm, 1926; purchase of farm, 1928; description of clearing 1,400 acres of rented farmland near Robstown; description of land deals, 1930s; sale of farm produce; comments on cotton and maize production; distribution of land to his children; description of cattle and hog raising; comments on farm equipment; civic activities.
Date of Interview: 10/07/1984
SYKES, C. S. (b. 1913) and Ruth (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.
SYKES, C. S. (b. 1913) and Ruth (b. 1915)
U.S. Army WWII Veteran.Interview ID: OH 0092
Veteran and his wife. Their account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, while living at Kawailoa.
Date of Interview: 27/09/1971
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