For Richard Rafes’s dissertation, “The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975.” Former TCOM employee. History of TCOM.
Retired Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas. Childhood in east Texas; education and work history; move to librarianship; changes at UNT over the years; work at UNT Libraries; move to digital libraries; creation of UNT’s digital repository and the Portal to Texas History; logistics of creating a digital library;…
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Immigration to Colorado at two years old; life as undocumented; family’s decision to leave Mexico; involvement in the North Texas DREAM Team; activism; DACA.
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil rights activist. Childhood in Tennessee; Dallas life during segregation; involvement in the Dallas Progressive Voters League; experiences with racism; SNCC and SCLC activities; Dallas NAACP; civil rights activism; son’s (Ernest McMillan) activism; influential figures in life; current state of…
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Author and LGBT activist. Family history; childhood in Corsicana, Texas; gay high school culture in the 1960s; horsemanship; Dallas Gay Rodeo; lesbian culture in the 1950s and 1960s; Dallas LGBT community; Circle of Friends; AIDS epidemic; LGBT night life; writing career.
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Executive director of Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society and Civil Rights advocate. Childhood in Fort Worth; experience attending desegregated high school; family history; life during segregation; changes after desegregation; preserving Tarrant County African American history;…
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela; moved to DFW to pursue Ph.D. in theology. His work as Director of Immigration Services for Catholic Charities of Fort Worth, services provided for the community and his thoughts on immigration issues.
Flight Attendant to National Recruiter and Recurrent flight attendant trainer. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content…
For the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. Childhood and education in Denison, Texas, and at Grayson College, Southern Oklahoma University, and UNT; career as a Certified Public Accountant; work with the UNT comptroller’s office and the UNT Foundation.
The early life and experiences growing up in Denton, Texas, raised by his grandmother and his struggles overcoming a speech impediment. Attended Fred Moore High School. Actively involved in sports led to a career of coaching in football, girls’ basketball, track and golf in Denton, Texas and in Missouri. Received many awards and recognition in…
For the Women in Business Oral History Project. Director of Client Services in the insurance industry. The interview spans her motivation and education leading up to her career, the diversifying workforce in the industry, and the impacts of current technology and COVID. She discussed her role in starting a Women In Business group in the past and…
His experiences and personal views while serving as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Need for constitutional revision; Constitutional Revision Commission; Price Daniel, Jr., as chair of the Constitutional Convention; Finance Committee; Right-to-Work provision; failure of Constitutional Convention.
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism in Memel, Lithuania, prior to Nazi occupation; early childhood life; move to Kaunas (Kovno), 1939; Russian occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; establishment of Kaunas Ghetto; Die Grosse Aktion (“The Great Roundup”); escape from the Kaunas Ghetto; life as a disguised…
Agronomist, U.S. Department of Agriculture and professor and small grains research leader, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas. Family background; employment with U. S. Department of Agriculture experiment stations, San Antonio and Denton, Texas; history of Denton station; development of varieties of small grains…
Survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Corregidor and capture, 1942; Malinta Tunnel; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1943; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Tanagawa, Honshu, 1943-44; Zentsuji and Rokorushi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.
His experiences as an infantry platoon leader in the European Theater during World War II. Education at U. S. Military Academy, 1940-43; basic infantry training at Fort Benning; assignment to the 66th Infantry Division, Camp Joseph Robinson, Arkansas, 1943; transfer to the 94th Infantry Division, early 1944; comments about the quality of non-…
Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1975-91. Segregated education in El Dorado, Arkansas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; Pacesetter; church activities; Willowdell Park; the “Buy Out.”
Physician. A monologue of his experiences as a P-47 fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Basic training, Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, 1942; primary flight training, Avon Park, Florida, 1942; basic flight training, Shaw Field, Sumter, South Carolina, 1942; advanced flight training, Craig Field, Selma, Alabama, 1943;…
Attorney, member of the Texas Senate from Garland, Democrat. His role in the passage of public utilities legislation during the Sixty-fourth Legislature.
Executive director of Resource Center Dallas. Childhood in Ohio and Bartlesville, Oklahoma; education at Northwestern University; decision to move to Dallas; career as a photojournalist and studio photographer; “coming-out” narrative; involvement with groups such as Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Dallas Gay Alliance/Dallas Gay and…
Founder and Chairman of the Board, El Chico Corporation. Family background; education problems; work as barber; employment in kitchen of Adolphus Hotel; “Mama” Delilah Cuellar’s Mexican food stand at Kaufman County Fair, 1926; opening of first “Cuellar’s” restaurant, 1928; expansion to other towns; Depression; work on ranch in Mexico; first El…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon, near Tucson, Arizona; camp move to Pitkin, Colorado; re-enlistment for a camp in Tucson, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
