Homemaker. Her reminiscences about her African-American family in Jackson, Mississippi, and Gary, Indiana. Early youth in Jackson; African-American social and cultural life in Jackson; early experiences with segregation; her family’s emphasis on education; her father’s migration to Gary in search of work, 1945; her permanent move to Gary; family…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and New Mexico; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp SP-9-O in Ardmore, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
Radio/TV announcer. His experiences aboard LCI-439 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Battle of Leyte Gulf and kamikazes; Battle of Okinawa; preparations for invasion of Honshu.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Callahan County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II aboard the USS Spence. His duties in the S Division as paymaster and disbursing officer; battle station in the Combat Information Center; comments about the skipper, Lieutenant Commander Henry J. Armstrong; assignment to Solomon Islands as part of Destroyer Squadron 23 (DesRon 23); combat…
Labor arbitrator, Denton, Texas. Family background; appointment to Naval Academy, 1923; description of academics and hazing at Naval Academy; assignments in Nicaragua, late 1920s; experiences during World War II as commander of submarine USS Saury in South Pacific; description of torpedo problems during war; teaching management, North Texas State…
Meyer, Birdie Gunyun: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Birdie Gunyon Meyer discusses her background as a nurse, health educator, support group leader, and lactation consultant. Meyer is a past-President of Postpartum Support International (PSI) and serves on the PSI advisory council. She discusses…
Dallas-based business leader and philanthropist. Grandparents’ experiences in present-day Belarus and Prussia and as immigrants to the U.S. and eventually to Fort Worth; parents’ experiences growing up in Fort Worth. Education in Fort Worth public schools culminating at Paschal High School and at UT-Austin; experiences in U.S. Army. Career as a…
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;…
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II and the Korean War. Assignment to 6th Marines, 1943; Guadalcanal; Tarawa; Saipan; Tinian; also Korea and Chosin Reservoir.
His experiences as a B-17 gunner/bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; Drake University, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; washing out of the Aviation Cadet Program due to his problems with depth perception; armament school, Lowry Air…
Educator. His experiences as a teacher and coach at Frederick Douglass school in Denton, Texas, 1936-43. Comments about Principal Fred Moore; segregated education in Denton; his admission to the doctoral program and breaking the color barrier at North Texas State College, 1954; his teaching philosophy.
Public relations consultant, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Fort Worth, Democrat. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; constitutional revision; Equal Rights Amendment; public…
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to USS Richmond; Komandorski Island action; Aleutians Campaign; post World War II naval career.
Judge (36th Judicial District of Texas). His observations on the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1940-70. Criminal offenses in Aransas County; justices of the peace; appointment of county commissioners; selection of grand jurors; comments about Governors Dan Moody, James Allred, Allan Shivers, and John Connally; South Texas…
