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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;…

SHAH, Rashmikant (b. )

Interview ID#
OH 2111

For the South Asians in North Texas Oral History Project. Past president of the Hindu Temple Society of North Texas and Indian immigrant in the United States. Experiences with racism and discrimination during the Civil Rights Era in the 1960s as well as the specific political developments that changed his life and allowed him to stay in…

ACIERNO, Sharon “Tommie” (b. 1949)

Interview ID#
OH 1647
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War veteran. Childhood in Brook Park, Ohio; decisions to drop out of high school and to enlist in the U.S. Army; basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala.,; clerical training; assignment to Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. and base in Heidelberg, Germany; “coming out” experience with self and with…

ALLRED, David (b. 1936)

Interview ID#
OH 0440
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and Special Sessions of the Sixty-first Legislature. One-year versus two-year budget; revenue bills; comments about Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes And Speaker Gus Mutscher; extension of state sales tax; Cavness Plan; minimum wage law; workman’s compensation; welfare legislation;…

ARNOLD, Annie Mae (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 1064
Her recollections about the African-American community in Texarkana, Texas, 1931-94; marriage customs; farm work; diet; birthing and child delivery; courting practices; education; cooking; child-rearing.

BARNES, Ben (b. 1937)

Interview ID#
OH 0033
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His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature. Reapportionment and the “one-man, one vote” decision of U.S. Supreme Court; state employee pay raise; state water planning; federal-state relations; revision of Code of Criminal Procedures; comments about Governor John Connally; changes in House rules; industrial safety…

BENEDICT, Norman (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1154
His experiences as an engineering officer with Submarine Division 46 and Submarine Division 106 in the Pacific Theater while stationed at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Assignment to the USS Cuttlefish, 1941; transfer to the Engineering and Repair Department, Pearl Harbor, 1942, as a division engineer; comments about submarine maintenance,…

BLUNTZER, Robert (b. 1897)

Interview ID#
OH 0088
Farmer-rancher. His observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the coastal bend area of south Texas, 1900-25. Ranch life; home seekers; Marizak plow; rural social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; Irish-Catholic influence.

BRAND, Harry (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1133
His experiences as an aircraft mechanic with the 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

BROWN, W. C. (b. 1935)

Interview ID#
OH 0652
His experiences as a student during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

BYNUM, Ben (b. 1943)

Interview ID#
OH 0304
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House Speakership race; committee appointments; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; insurance legislation; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.

CHAIN, John T. (b. 1934)

Interview ID#
OH 1552
His perspectives as commander of the Strategic Air Command; comments about leadership; his personal relationships with General Curtis LeMay.