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…
Information Science professor and refugee from Bosnia to the U.S. Family’s experiences as refugees from the Bosnian War to the United States as she fled from her birthplace of Bosnia to Croatia, and then eventually to the U.S.; memories of her childhood in Bosnia and Croatia and how she remembers her culture; adjusting to life in the US, and…
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…
Industry veteran Kathie Romero discusses her career in the music business, including her work as a DJ and music director for 96Q KSAQ in San Antonio in the 1980s and as a Regional Promotion and Marketing Manager for Interscope Records in the 1990s. Musicians discussed in the interview include the Toadies, Primus, Deep Blue Something, 2Pac, Dr.…
Writer, historian, musician, and cultural activist from El Paso, Texas. Family’s immigration experience; childhood in California and El Paso; experiences in school and church; explorations of Mexican American, Jewish, and Middle Eastern history that inform his work; publishing career.
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 Vielka Roth 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.
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater in World War II. Childhood in Alabama, learning to fly; enlistment in the Air National Guard; Army Air Forces flight training; bombing missions over Germany; career as an American Airlines pilot; 381st Bombardment Group…
His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. His enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1940; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Aviation Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; pre-flight training, San Antonio, 1942-43; primary flight training, Cimarron Field, Oklahoma City,…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Westbrook and Dublin, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 849 at SP-36 at Lake Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
