For the Denton County Historical Commission. Postal carrier. His experiences as a longtime resident of Denton County, Texas, 1927-2002.
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood; military experiences in Vietnam; love of the sea; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
His experiences as a member of the Marine detachment on the light cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also his experiences in the Solomon Islands Campaign and the amphibious assault on Peleliu Island. Enlistment in the Marine Corps, 1939; assignment to the Helena, December, 1939; his activities during…
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Former Denton City Council member, community activist, and longtime Denton resident. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; teaching career in Dallas; marriage and move to Denton; three terms on Denton City Council; Civil Rights struggle; work for NAACP; Quakertown, future of Denton; family.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, restaurant owner and real estate investor. Coming to U.S. from Tehran, Iran; driving taxi cab and working in restaurants in Dallas; acquiring his restaurant “The Old Warsaw”; meeting his wife, having three daughters; decision to come to America; living…
For the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Denison, Texas, and at Grayson College, Southern Oklahoma University, and UNT; career as a Certified Public Accountant; work with the UNT comptroller’s office and the UNT Foundation.
Independent oilman, 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; liberation in Bangkok.
His experiences as an Army officer in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Businessman. His experiences as a businessman in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1936-72. Business ventures of Heldenfels Brothers; shell dredging and conservation; banking interests; real estate interests; future industrial development.
His experiences while aboard the seaplane tender USS Tangier during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
His experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with the beaching crew during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Founder, owner, and operator, Miss Hendley’s Shop, Denton, Texas. Family background; employment with Federal Reserve Board, Washington D. C., 1920; financial reverses of father’s farms and ranches; opening of gift shop, Denton, 1924; comments on Dallas suppliers; relocation of gift shop near Texas Woman’s University; description of merchandise;…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Sherman, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences while aboard an officers’ gig alongside the repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Her recollections concerning the Crater of Diamonds and diamond mining around Murfreesboro, Arkansas.
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in all-black McKinney schools; nursing education at Prairie View A&M College and McKinney City County Hospital; career at Ashburn Veterans Administration hospital, Cook County (Illinois) Hospital; history of McKinney black community…
Attorney, environmentalist. His comments and observations concerning water basin development in Texas. Citizen’s Environmental Coalition; Wallisville lawsuit; Citizens Against Water Taxes (CAWT); Trinity River Barge Canal; Texas Environmental Coalition (TEC); comments about Ned Fritz, J. R. Parten, Bill Clayton, Sierra Club.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Midwest and Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 901 at Pine Valley, California; description of camp; camp life.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Coleman County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Mesa Verda, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences aboard the destroyer (later attack transport) USS Talbot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aleutians operations, 1942; conversion of the Talbot into an attack transport, 1943; operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; island landings of Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and underwater demolition teams on New Georgia, Vella…
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Second generation of Bermejo women. Recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; consequences of not having a higher education; sending daughter to college; lack of emphasis on Latinas attending college; results of cultural factors on education.
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Childhood in Mexico; immigration to the United States; becoming American; attending college while undocumented; activism and the North Texas DREAM Team; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); resistance to the DREAM Act; debate over immigration law/reform; American…
Physicist. His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the Mediterranean and European Theaters during World War II. His decision to join the Enlisted Reserve Corps while a student at the University of Massachusetts, September, 1942; call to active duty, March, 1943, and Army basic training at Kearns, Utah; decision to volunteer for Aviation Cadet…
Copper craftswoman. Her reminiscences and childhood memories of her brothers, the architect O’Neil Ford, and the cabinetmaker Lynn Ford. Childhood games and construction projects; amateur theatrical presentations; design and construction of the Little Chapel in the Woods, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, by the National Youth…
Crop duster, businessman. His experiences as a fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Early interest in flying and aviation; employment at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California, 1939-42; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1942; Aviation Cadet Program, 1942-43; primary flight school, Visalia, California, 1943; basic…
