Recollections concerning her Basque parents, her work at the Bastanchury Ranch, and the raising of her children in America; discussion of Basque customs and folkways.
Stage director. His recollections of his father, the artist Perry Nichols. Growing up at the family house/studio on Forest Park Road, Dallas, Texas, in the 1940s; his father’s first wife, Mary Nell Brooks; his description and identification of the arts people who visited his father’s studio; his father’s conversion of a church on Cole Avenue in…
Former chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Caltex Petroleum Corporation. Education; military service in China during World War II; employment with Caltex, 1946; assignment to Shanghai as legal officer; land titles and property claims in China; postwar marketing strategies in the Far East; competition from Shell and Standard Vacuum;…
Businessman. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His parents’ reactions to the cultural changes of the Sixties; his opposition to the Vietnam War, 1968-69; his high school experiences in the mid-Sixties; influences of the Beatles on his musical tastes; his college…
Veteran and his wife. Their experiences while at home in Honolulu and at the Pearl Harbor Submarine Base during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
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, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45; Phet Buri, Thailand, 1945; liberation.
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of- war of the Japanese during World War II. Education at the U. S. Military Academy, 1935-39; assignment to the Philippines with the 57th Infantry, 1939; preparations for war with Japan and evacuation of dependents; opening days of the war; defense of Bataan and surrender; Bataan…
His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
His experiences with the 11th Field Artillery, 24th Infantry Division, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; his selection for navigator training, Santa Ana; aerial gunnery training…
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese after his capture on Corregidor, Philippine Islands, 1942; his account of the Palawan Massacre, 1944.
Civil service administrator, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations;…
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Former resident of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood and long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Quakertown; family history; family’s forced move out of Quakertown to Solomon Hill neighborhood of Denton; race relations in Denton; participation in Denton Christian Women’s Fellowship; family…
Engineer. His experiences aboard the destroyer USS McGowan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Everyday life aboard ship; Iwo Jima; Okinawa and kamikazes; operations off northern Japan, 1945.
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Youth in Gelsenkirchen, Germany; pre-Nazi anti-Semitism; work and school in Berlin; Kristallnacht; job, education, and housing discrimination; deportation to the Riga (Latvia) Ghetto, 1942; life in the Riga Ghetto; transfer to concentration camp at Kaiserwald, 1943; transfer to Stutthof,…
Co-founder (with husband Herman, deceased) of Tex Glass,
Inc., Decatur, Texas. Family background; education in Brooklyn, N. Y.; teaching career; her
knowledge of husband’s family background and his life in Europe during Hitler era; his technical
training, work in glass factories; starting his own glass factory in Vienna; fleeing Nazis and…
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and long-time Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Dallas-Fort Worth area; awareness of sexuality; coming out; AIDS crisis in Dallas; the Dallas Way LGBT history project; local LGBT history; Dallas gay community; recent changes in legislation.
For the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. Attorney and UNT Foundation emeritus board member. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; education history; political activities; involvement in the UNT Foundation and Board of Regents; Foundation history; law career; future of UNT; diversity at UNT.
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.
For the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. Former Director of Planned Giving and former executive director. Childhood in Dallas; education; employment history; work with the UNT Foundation in the 1990s and early 2000s; Foundation history.
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Long-time Denton resident. Family history; Denton history; political changes in Denton; Krum, Texas history; model-making.
