Homemaker, schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Childhood in Nacogdoches, Texas; desegregation of North Texas State College in 1950s; student stand-in at Campus Theatre in Denton; early organization and social activities;…
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; family background; educational and professional background; experiences with racism and segregation; Denton desegregation; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; continued community involvement; activism.
Johnny Barragan describes his childhood through the foods he grew up on. His grandparents, who provided him and his sister with care and supervision, influenced Johnny's palate. As he grew up, his relationship to food changed as he became aware of his body and body size. His relationship, then, became one of control in order to obtain a…
Archeologist, United States Department of Transportation Cultural Resources Division, Office of Environmental Program Management. Background and interest on becoming an archeologist. Working for the USDOT and experiences on excavations nationally and internationally. Helping with the Denton, Texas Archeology Fair.
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Nursing school at Lubbock Methodist Hospital, 1955; enlistment in Army, 1969, and anesthesia training at Fitzsimons general Hospital, Denver, Colorado; assignment to Vietnam, 1969; 95th Evacuation Hospital, Da Nang; medical cases and responsibilities; functions as special services officer; treating…
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton residents. Frank’s childhood in Jasper County, Tex., and family’s move to Denton; career; education at North Texas State College and Louisiana State University; career as radio announcer, including at Denton’s KDNT radio station and the Atlantic Radio Network; wartime service in the…
Her reminiscences as the wife of General Olinto Barsanti, 1942-1973. Their courtship in San Antonio; her coping with various assignments to Europe, Japan, and Washington, DC; child-raising; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the…
Accountant. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in an Italian immigrant family in Tonopah, Nevada; his early job selling newspapers while in school; graduation from high school and enrollment at Woodbury College, Los Angeles, California, 1941; his transfer to the University of Southern California and enrollment…
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Corregidor and capture, 1942; Malinta Tunnel; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1943; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Tanagawa, Honshu, 1943-44; Zentsuji and Rokorushi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.
Emeritus professor of economics, University of North Texas. Family background; educational experiences at the University of Texas, Austin; membership in League for Industrial Democracy; winter lambing in West Texas; experiences during the Great Depression; view of economics and sociology department at North Texas, 1939; experiences in U.S. Army…
Engineer. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army and basic training, Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, 1943; transit to Europe as a replacement to E Company, 119th Infantry Regiment, 1944; action on the Siegfried Line, 1944; the Battle of Aachen, 1944; individual episodes of close ground combat; his…
Growing up in Puerto Rico, Zaida Basora was surrounded by Spanish colonial architecture and a culture that celebrated design for people and nature. She came to Dallas in the mid 1980’s to study and practice architecture. In the mid 1990’s she accepted a position with the City of Dallas in the Public Works department. Nationwide, concerns were…
Retired schoolteacher. His recollections about the African-American business community in Sherman, Texas, 1912-86; his eye-witness account of the lynching of George Hughes in Sherman, 1930; experiences as an African-American educator; local race relations.
As an Environmental Design student at Texas A&M, Denise Bates made a conscious decision to focus on interior design and architecture. She saw an opportunity for a sustainable approach that could both reuse existing structures and better integrate interior functions with building design. Denise has remained an advocate for the building occupant…
Attorney. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army, April, 1943; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943-44; selection for the Counter Intelligence Corps, 1944; British Intelligence School, Karachi, India, 1944; assignment to Kweiyang, China, 1944; end of the war and his transfer…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth and student days at Ohio University; enrollment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1940; primary flight training, Camp Gordon, Georgia, 1940-41; basic and advanced flight training, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1941-42; his decision to leave naval aviation; Midshipman’s School,…
Businessman, maintenance man. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Aubrey, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas; description of camp; life in camp; experiences as camp cook; WWII Naval service in Pacific Theater.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Waxahachie, Texas and Campbell, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camp in Wolfe City, Texas; life in camp; description of camp; WWII Army service in the European Theater.
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Remembrances of childhood and early education in Waxahachie, Texas; decision to accept athletic scholarship to North Texas; experiences as a football player at North Texas and with Pittsburgh Steelers and other professional teams; social life among African-American students and relations…
