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HOOPER, Thurman H. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0910
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Arkansas and Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Peaceful Valley, Colorado; camp move to Bonham, Texas; Durango, Colorado; Camp Mesa Verde, Colorado; Alamosa, Colorado; Jasper, Texas; Bowie, Arizona; description of camps; life…

HUTCHEN, Eugene (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1406
Businessman. Experiences of the Hutchen family after its move from Mississippi to Gary, Indiana, 1930-1950.

JAMISON, Alonzo (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0010
His experiences and personal views on the Sixtieth Legislature; activities on House Education Committee.

JONES, Robert E. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 0590
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Pennsylvania during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

KENNEDY, Hazel (b. 1899) and Annie Mae (b. 1901)

Interview ID#
OH 0990
Their recollections about Texarkana, Texas, 1927-41; their careers; church activities; social organizations; their education; entertainment; local business enterprises; women in business; ethnic groups.

KLINE, Frederick H. (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 1218
His experiences as a photographic laboratory technician in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Technical training at Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado, 1942; Air Force Photo-Intelligence School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1943; voluntary duty with the Flying Tigers, Kunming, China, 1943; flying "The Hump"; assignment to 14th Air Force…

LAWLEY, George P. (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0164
Accountant, 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; Kanchanburi, Thailand, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1945; coal mining on Kyushu, 1945;…

LINDQUIST, Theodore (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1473
Aircraft worker. His experiences as an aerial gunner in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; enlistment in the Marine Corps, September, 1942; boot camp, Parris Island, South Carolina, 1942; aviation mechanics school, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, 1943; gunnery school, Hollywood,…

MARTIN, Jack J. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 0725
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

McCLELLAND, James (b. 1912)

Interview ID#
OH 0428
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Helena during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

MICHAEL, Simon (b. 1905)

Interview ID#
OH 0128
Artist. His experiences as an artist and art teacher in the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1948-72. Early art training; Fulton School of Fine Arts; his move from Fulton to Rockport, Texas; Simon Michael School of Fine Arts; art exhibitions; art and local architectural styles; art students; techniques for teaching art; philosophy of art;…

MOORE, Daniel (b. ca. 1900)

Interview ID#
OH 0077
Retired farmer. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; economy of the area; mule raising.

MYNIER, Velma (b. 1911)

Interview ID#
OHB 0098
Owner and administrator, South-Park Manor Nursing Homes, Corpus Christi and Refugio, Texas. Family background; experiences at Flour Bluff, Nueces County, during hurricane of 1919; employments as bookkeeper for husband’s car dealership, Kingsville, Texas, 1930s; effects of Depression in Kingsville; work with Red Cross during World War II and…

TAIT, John (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 1426
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Saint Louis during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also brief comments about naval operations in the Aleutians, Solomons, Philippines, and Okinawa.

TIMLIN, Charles (b. 1922)

Interview ID#
OH 0434
His experiences while aboard the fleet repair ship USS Vestal during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

UTTAL, Jordan R. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 1330
Business executive. His experiences as a statistics control officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and business experience in the dairy industry; entry into the Army, December 29, 1941; Air Forces Administrative Officer Candidate School, 1942; training as a statistical control officer at Harvard Business School…

WELLS, Thelma (b. 1941)

Interview ID#
OH 0903
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Schoolteacher, secretary. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1963-79. Education; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; substitute teaching at Hamilton Park School; church activities; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park High School; Pacesetter; Interorganizational Council; president of Civic League; traffic access…

WILLIAMS, Joseph R. (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0871
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Physician. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, in 1950s and 1960s. Childhood and education in Dallas; medical school at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1942-45; Army career; segregated housing in Dallas; discrimination against African-American physicians; dealing with the white power structure in Dallas; civil…

WOOTEN, Ben (b. 1894)

Interview ID#
OH 0029
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Banker, public servant, philanthropist. His observations on the growth and development of banking and finance in the Southwest. Service in World War I; assistant cashier of the Alba National Bank, Alba, Texas; cashier of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Farmersville, Texas; state bank examiner; Federal Home Loan Banking System; vice-president and…

OELSCHALAEGER, Max (b. 1943)

Interview ID#
OH 1202
College professor. His experiences concerning the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Early interest in women's issues; views concerning environmental ethics, eco-philosophy, and eco-feminism; ideas concerning the components for a quality women's studies program.

PEACE, Erma B. (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 0907
Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1925-36. Family background; school facilities; school extra-curricular activities; physical layout of Frederick Douglass Colored School; comments about teachers and Principal Fred Moore; church activities; segregated public facilities in Denton.

SAMPLEY, Arthur (b. 1903)

Interview ID#
OH 0252
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College professor, former college administrator, former poet laureate of Texas. The making of the poet; analysis of his poetry; tenure as director of libraries and vice-president for academic affairs at North Texas State College; his philosophy of teaching; desegregation of the college, 1955-56.

SEFCIK, John (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1407
His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Youth in central Texas; decision to enter the military, 1940; assignment to the 12th Artillery Battalion, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1940; transfer to Headquarters, 2nd Infantry Division, November, 1940; transfer as part of the cadre for the newly-formed 102nd Infantry…

SHUFORD, Cecil (b. 1907)

Interview ID#
OH 0259
Former college professor, writer, poet. Evolution of the Journalism Department at North Texas State University; his philosophy on the training of professional journalists; his theories on creative writing; impressions of various presidential administrations at the University.

PITTS, Connie H. (b. 1921)

Interview ID#
OH 1392
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Law enforcement officer. His experiences while serving with the Birmingham, Alabama, Police Department during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His youth in a rural segregated community in Alabama; contacts with African-American servicemen while a member of the SeaBees during World War II; decision to join the Birmingham Police…