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OWEN, Marler W. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0784
His experiences while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

PEARSON, Lloyd L. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0557
Trucker. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

SCHENCK, Natasha Guytan (b. 1971)

Interview ID#
OH 1699
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Russian-born immigrant to suburban Plano, Texas. Childhood and education in Kazan, Russia, Poland, and Izhevsk, Russia; parents’ work as geophysicists; perceptions of glasnost and perestroika; college and graduate school experiences at Kazan State University and decision to study computer…

SHAW, William J. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1467
Businessman. His experiences as a PBJ (B-25) pilot in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Childhood and education; his joining the Navy V-5 Program at the University of the South, February, 1942; pre-flight training, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, July, 1942; primary flight training, Lambert Field, Saint Louis, Missouri,…

SMALLWOOD, P. J. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0166
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Realtor, advertising executive, 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 and Da Lat, French Indo-China…

SNYDER, Jacob W. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1310
Cabinetmaker. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps; employment as a machinist in south Florida, 1941-42; entry into the Marine Corps, February, 1943; boot camp experiences at Parris Island, South Carolina; training with 40-millimeter antiaircraft guns, New River, North Carolina…

STEIN, Paul D. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1242
Printer, member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaya, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards, 1943-45; Orio, Kyushu, 1945, and American air raids; liberation; description of damage at…

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…

POLNAC, James A. (b. 1924)

Interview ID#
OH 1226
His experiences while aboard the light cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

ROBERTS, John (b. 1932)

Interview ID#
OH 0716
Public school administrator. His experiences concerning the desegregation of the Hamilton Park, Texas, school and the establishment of the Pacesetter program. Educational background and administrative positions held; federal desegregation guidelines; establishment of attendance zones; role of H.E.W.; closing of Hamilton Park High School; decision…

PUENTE, Carlos (b. 1944)

Interview ID#
OH 1481
Political activist. His involvement in the Mexican-American community of Fort Worth, Texas, 1970-2003. His family’s migration from Mexico to Texas in the 1920s; his youth in Galveston; his decision to quit school in the ninth grade; his earning a GED; business school at Galveston Business College and subsequent employment in the Galveston County…

RUNCE, Fred (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 0219
His experiences at Wheeler Field with the Army Ordnance Detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

HUDGINS, H. Paul (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 1842
Artist and author. Childhood in Texas; family history; enlistment in U.S. Army as a medic; staged in France on V-E Day; stationed on hospital train running between Germany and France; post-war college; artistic career; writing career; Honor Flight trip.

FINLEY, Mary (b. 1950)

Interview ID#
OH 1859
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Administrator and co-founder of the UNT Ally program. Building LGBT resources at the UNT library and Ally program; Safe Zone programs; faculty training to support LGBT students in the DFW Metroplex; education and work experiences; influence to become an Ally; support of the gay community.

KIMBLE, Betty J. (b. 1931)

Interview ID#
OH 1903
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; family background; educational and professional background; Denton’s American Legion Senior Center; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Denton desegregation; experiences with discrimination and segregation; continued discrimination after integration; contemporary…

DELUNA, Nicole (b. 1981)

Interview ID#
OH 1764
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Third generation of Bermejo women. Recollections for schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; meaning of high school graduation; reasons for not attending college; discussion of cultural expectations of Mexican American women; daughter’s educational plans; benefit of an education…

PARKER, Walt (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
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.

ARRECHEA, Florencia (b. 1986)

Interview ID#
OH 1925
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Childhood memories of growing up in Necochea, Argentina till the age of 17; family applying for U.S. visa lottery, the process and acceptance; moving to Texas and the culture differences; her family’s struggles and determination to succeed; her life perspectives as a young adult living in the U.S.

LASZLO, Gail (b. 1946)

Interview ID#
OH 1960
Laszlo, Gail: Flight Attendant. 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. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on…

MURPHY, John Patrick (b. 1961)

Interview ID#
OH 2010
UNT professor of jazz studies. His youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society. His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986), playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab…

RUDELSON, Naomie (b. 1934)

Interview ID#
OH 2041
Naomie Rudelson shares experiences as a retailing executive whose career grew in the Dallas fashion scene. While her first fashion experiences were working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans and then working at Dalton’s while attending Louisiana State University, shortly after graduation she moved to Dallas to complete a junior executive training…

GARCIA, Darlene (b. 1985)

Interview ID#
OH 2086
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood and educational experiences in Dallas; college experiences at Texas Woman's University; and experiences as a PHD student in the UNT Department of History as a first generation student of Mexican immigrant parents, originally form the state of Durango;…

AGNICH, Fred (b. 1913)

Interview ID#
OH 0420
His views concerning the development of water resources in Texas.

AMY, Warren (b. 1925)

Interview ID#
OH 1134
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Chub in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1943-44; assignment to the Chub, 1944; his responsibilities as an electrician’s mate; various patrols in the North China Sea, the Java Sea, and off the Philippines.

AUTRY, Wilford (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0209
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.