For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Air Force Major, Logistics Planning Officer (21R), Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Veteran. Childhood in Nebraska; reasons for joining the Air Force; experiences in the University of Nebraska ROTC program and tech school; memories of September 11th attacks while in tech…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas; Civil/structural engineer and businessman. Childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution;…

For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Telephone operator and EEOC member and activist. Childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans’ experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Uzbekistani-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas. Childhood in Uzbekistan; move to the U.S. at age eleven; transition to American school system; first impressions of the U.S.; mother’s family in Russia; transition of Uzbekistan from a Soviet satellite to an independent Muslim nation;…

For the Southlake Historical Society’s Bob Jones Family Oral History Project. Grandson of Bob Jones and Director Emeritus of Bob Jones Nature Center. Bob Jones family history; segregation in Southlake and surrounding area; Jones annual picnic; Jones family traditions; impact of Civil Rights Act; impact of Jones family on local area.

World War II Veteran. Recollections of military service under General Curtis LeMay; military pilot training; 305th Bomb Group.

Artist, Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard), member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaja, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Nagasaki shipyards; Tokyo, 1943-45;…

Howard Garrett graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Park Administration and Landscape Architecture. An early career focus on golf course design and management evolved to include landscape architecture and design. He decided to become an organic person when his daughter Logan was born in 1985. A photograph he took of her when she was nine…

Mexican-born immigrant to the U.S.; immigrant rights activist, and anthropology professor with expertise in immigrant communities from Guanajuato, Mexico, in the U.S. Childhood and education in Mexico City; decision to pursue a career in the field of political anthropology; decision to open the Oak Cliff Center for Community Studies; work with…

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Adrienne Griffen is a postpartum depression policy advocate. She was a warmline volunteer for Postpartum Support International (PSI) mi the mid-2000s. Then she founded Postpartum Support Virginia (PSVa) in 2009, and served as executive director of the organization. In…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-eighth Legislature. Speaker Gib Lewis and financial disclosure; appointment as chair of the Environmental Affairs Committee; appropriations and taxes; comments about Governor Mark White; teachers pay; personal legislation.

His experiences while aboard the hospital ship USS Solace during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Executive, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Early training with Texaco; employment with Caltex, 1945; establishment of postwar marketing operations for Caltex (Philippines); assignment to Cebu district; product sales in Philippines; transfer to Davao; competition with Shell and Standard Vacuum in Philippines; marketing strategies; social life of…

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…

Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Boyhood in North Dakota; various jobs during the Great Depression; enlistment in the Navy, 1939; volunteering for duty in the Philippines and assignment to the submarine tender USS Canopus, 1940; pre-war military life in the Philippines;…

His experiences at Bishops Point with the Hawaiian Naval Reserve during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences while aboard the destroyer tender USS Whitney during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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

Businessman. His experiences as a guerrilla fighter on Mindanao, Philippine Islands, during World War II.

County adult probation officer. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.

Founder, owner, and operator of Craven’s, Inc., Denton, Texas. Childhood memories; Depression experiences; comments about Craven’s Dairy and early dairy industry in general; employment with Burr Stores; recollections about growth and development of Denton; schooling at Akron University and North Texas State; starting his uniform business in Denton…

Her experiences while employed by the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texarkana, Texas, during World War II and the postwar years. Hiring procedures and job assignments; safety precautions; social activities; swing shifts; race relations; relationships between male and female workers; social and economic effects of the plant on Texarkana.

His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Schley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.