His experiences at Fort Shafter with Headquarters Battery, 3rd Battalion, Coast Artillery, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
College professor. Her experiences concerning the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas, 1992-96; educational background; participation in student protests against the Vietnam War; activities with the National Organization of Women (NOW); origins of her interest in women writers; her role in the Women's…
Businessman, musician. His recollections concerning the development of the Northside (Fort Worth, Texas) Hispanic community, his music career, and the evolution of his family’s Mexican foods business. Immigration of his parents and grandparents from Mexico, 1919; employment of his father with Swift & Co., Fort Worth; opening of the family…
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Childhood in Mexico and Dallas, Texas; family’s immigration to the United States; difficulty travelling while undocumented or on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); connection to Mexican heritage; American identity; becoming American; activism and North Texas DREAM Team…
Dr. Victor Rodriguez spotlights significant insights into his storied career through five eras: his early all-Hispanic elementary school training; his continued study and budding athletic prowess in the Edna, TX, school district; his Victoria Junior College athletic achievements and learning; his higher education, Geezle membership, and track…
For the Geezle Oral History Project; Dr. Victor Rodriguez spotlights significant insights into his storied and sterling career through five time dimensions: (1) his early all-Hispanic elementary school training; (2) his continued study and budding athletic prowess in the Edna, TX, school district; (3) his Victoria Junior College athletic…
Longtime North Texas music professor and wife. Bob Rogers’ childhood in Bartlesville and Tulsa, Oklahoma; education at Julliard School of Music and Columbia Teachers College; service in World War II-era Army; and career as faculty member in North Texas School of Music (piano) from 1948 to 1984, including experience with State Senator Lyndon B.…
College professor, former director of the North Texas State University News Service, former university administrator. His recollections concerning the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56. Admission of A. Tennyson Miller, 1954; Adkins case, 1955-56; admission of Mrs. Irma E. L. Sephas, 1956; role of President J. C. Matthews in the…
President, Mary Kay Cosmetics. Recollections of his mother’s
(Mary Kay. selling career and its impact on her own company; relations with sales personnel;
their decision to form own company; marketing and sales motivation; wig business; pricing; dual
management system; legal aspects and government regulations; views on government
regulation, self-…
Businessman, contractor. His role in the development of
Hamilton Park, Texas, during the 1950s. Efforts of Dallas Home Builders Association to establish
residential neighborhoods for African Americans; role of Karl Hoblitzelle and Hoblitzelle
Foundation; Dallas Citizens Interracial Association; selection of Hamilton Park site; role of Jerome…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexicanborn
immigrant to North Texas, restaurateur in Krum, Texas. Childhood in a mountainous village
in the state of Puebla, Mexico, and how he fulfilled his dream of coming to the U.S. to become a
successful businessman/entrepreneur.
Oilman, geophysicist. His work experience with Petty Geophysical
Engineering Company doing refraction seismic work; employment with Geophysical Service, Inc.,
doing reflection and refraction work, 1936; oil exploration in South America; work in oilfield
instrumentation equipment; work as a “computer” interpreting geological data; founding of…
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project.
Longtime resident of Cisco and Eastland, Texas. Memories of education in Cisco’s all-black,
one-room Smithville Elementary School that included grades 1-6; negative experiences in newly
desegregated schools; perceptions of different treatment accorded to young black men and
young…
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15, USS Randolph, USS Noble. His experiences as a PT boat skipper in the North African and European Theaters and various other duties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early naval career, 1941-42; assignment to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Center, Melville, Rhode Island, October, 1942; association with…
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…
Alyssah describes their relationship to food and how it has changed over time. Alyssah describes family traditions and how their attendance at the Border Health Network's camp for kids shaped her relationship to food, especially around issues of body image.
