For the For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident and Denton Convention and Visitors Bureau employee. Family and early childhood in Kansas City, Missouri; family’s move to Dallas; college in Denton; career in Dallas-Fort Worth area; Denton attractions; Denton history; African American life in Denton.
Hugo Loera reflects on his relationships to food. As someone who enjoys cooking for others, he attributes his cooking skills to his mother. Following her passing, Hugo sees food as a way to keep her memory alive. He further reflects on the role of weight, body image, and health in his evolving relationship with food.
Loftin's experiences with fictional young adult literature and modern-day fictional novels. Loftin was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Growing up on Nancy Drew, Loftin explains how that impacted their life growing up and how those stories contributed to their childhood, which is discussed in the beginning of the interview. Loftin also had…
Randy Loftis, M.A., Lecturer in the UNT Mayborn School of Journalism, is an award-winning journalist with over thirty years of experience as an environmental and investigative reporter. His career path has afforded him a profoundly unique perspective on environmental awareness, environmental justice, and environmental policymaking in North Texas.…
UNT alumna whose college education began in 1956 and concluded in 2011. Childhood and education in Dallas and New York City; love of piano and musical education; decision to become one of the first African American students at North Texas; experiences as a college student, including racist incidents on campus, and as a boarder in Southeast Denton…
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Descendant of Quakertown homeowners. Experiences of his father, John Logan, and other family members who were forced to move from the all-black Quakertown neighborhood of Denton; experiences while attending segregated schools in Denton; career in U.S. Air Force and communications industry and as a…
Logan, Reverend Reginald. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Logan’s interview for the Bolivar Oral History Project was conducted in conjunction with the Bolivar Archeological Project’s community engagement efforts. Reverend Logan is a Quakertown descendant and starts his interview by retracing his paternal ancestry; his great-grandfather moved…
Owner and operator of Logan’s Shoe Repair, Denton, Texas. Family background; early work experiences; work as youth in shoe repair shops; thoughts about an African-American man in white business world; employment at North Texas State University library and Morrison Milling Company; going into business for himself; experiences with financial…
Vice-president and general sales manager, Tex Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Yoakum; experiences in Army and as prisoner-of-war of Germans during World War II; employment as assistant personnel manager and salesman for Tex Tan; product line; sale of business to Charles Tandy and company…
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and long-time Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Cambridge, England; first realization of being gay; being gay in the post-World War II Royal Air Force; immigration to the U.S. in 1956; Texas gay rights movement; Human Rights Foundation; activism in the Dallas LGBT community; rejection of…
Antonio Lopez recalls the role of food throughout his life. Antonio begins in his childhood during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From there, he elaborates on his time serving as a cook in Austin, Texas at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change during the 1990s. Finally, he reflects on his life in the food industry and living on the border in…
Business manager, Texas Woman’s University; owner and operator, Marvin Loveless Photography Studio, Denton, Texas; and owner and operator, Denton Mini Warehouses, Denton, Texas. Family background; farming in West Texas; employment as secretary to president, Texas Woman’s University, 1922; experiences as secretary to Board of Regents and business…
Member of the United States Army. Reasons for joining. Experiences at the New Mexico Military Institute. What it was like being stationed in Kuwait. Missions with the Texas National Guard. ROTC recruiter at the University of North Texas.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood and education in China; family life; parents’ role in decision-making; decision to enter U.S. to study accounting; practice of Christianity in China; immigration process; religious freedom in U.S. vs. China; struggles to acculturate.
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Primary, basic, and advanced training in the U.S., 1942-43; assignment to the B-17; stationing at Thorpe-Abbotts, England, 1943; his first combat mission; subsequent missions; German antiaircraft defenses and fighter tactics; raid to Bremen, October 8, 1943; defensive…
For Richard Rafes dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” TCOM co-founder.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. He discusses his family’s immigrant history from Vietnam to North Texas, his identity as a Texan, how he found his way to working in the culinary world, and what he hopes to see in the future of Vietnamese American cuisine.
African-American former student of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood and early education in South Dallas, Texas; decision to enroll at North Texas in 1964; off-campus life in “Shack Town” and support from black citizens of Denton; social life among African-American students and relations with white students and faculty;…
