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HERNANDEZ, Cecelia Bermejo (b. 1957)

Interview ID#
OH 1774
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Second generation of Bermejo women. Recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; consequences of not having a higher education; sending daughter to college; lack of emphasis on Latinas attending college; results of cultural factors on education.
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SMITH, Paul F. (b. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 0117
College professor. His experiences as a member of the faculty advisory committee that was responsible for the selection of John Kamerick as president of North Texas State University.
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PEDINI, Erio Enzo (b. 1946)

Interview ID#
OH 1941
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Memories growing up in the Republic of San Marino and going to school in Italy. Coming to America in 1958 and the differences in cultures and lifestyles. Living and working in Detroit, Michigan, becoming a U.S. citizen, moving to Dallas, Texas and working in the building industry.
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BATES, Denise (b. 1969)

As an Environmental Design student at Texas A&M, Denise Bates made a conscious decision to focus on interior design and architecture. She saw an opportunity for a sustainable approach that could both reuse existing structures and better integrate interior functions with building design. Denise has remained an advocate for the building occupant…
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CHIPMAN, Donald (b. 1928)

Interview ID#
OH 2019
UNT Emeritus Professor of History. Childhood in Kansas; graduate education at University of New Mexico and teaching career at North Texas, beginning in 1964; remembrances of Vietnam War-era protest on campus and feelings about the war more generally among NT students and faculty.
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BLOCKER, Carol (b. 1938)

Interview ID#
OH 2054

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Carol Blocker is an advocate for sufferers of postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She discusses the life and illness of her daughter Melanie Blocker-Stokes who died by suicide amid postpartum psychosis in 2001, including her interactions with psychiatric…

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SAMPSON, Melissa (b. 1958)

Interview ID#
OH 2080
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Childhood, family, and adulthood in the DFW area. Discovering family history through genealogy and other official records: birth and death certificates, census reports, local history. Wright family history of members buried in a mausoleum in the Independent Order of ODD Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery: William…
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VICIOUS, Dolly (b.1988)

Interview ID#
OH 2125

Dolly is a non-binary goth/fetish model here in Dallas, Texas. We talked about what it was like growing up with a father in Vice and how it affected their life and relationship with their father. We touched on the half-sibling they did not know they had for a while in their life and their relationship with him. Dolly gives us insight to how…

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ALLEE, A. Y. (b. 1905)

Interview ID#
OH 0040
His version of the Crystal City Incident, 1963; Mexican-American relations.
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ANTIQUESTONE. Interviews with Grady Leroy Smith, Jr. (b. 1937) and James M. Dyke, Jr. (b. 1949)

Interview ID#
OHB 0095
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SMITH, GRADY LEROY, JR., President, Antiquestone, Inc., Bertram, Texas. Family background; experiences working with father for Trafton Tile Company, Austin; self-employment in the tile installation business, 1966; description of tile installation procedures; entry into tile manufacturing business, 1967; partnership with James Dyke, Jr. And Sr. to…
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BAKER, S. L. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0952
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood near Jacksboro, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
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BECKMAN, Pierina E. Mercado (b. 1958)

Interview ID#
OH 1726
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and UNT professor. Childhood in Mexico City; parents’ desire to relocate family to U.S.; decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa; culture shock and homesickness; marriage to Curt Beckman; decision to earn Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from…
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BLALOCK, Tom (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0065
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Onomichi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.
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BRABHAM, Charles C., Jr. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1553
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II; his youth in Dallas during the Great Depression; his decision to join the 112th Cavalry, 1939, at age sixteen; mobilization and assignment to Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940; Louisiana Maneuvers, summer, 1941; assignment to Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, and duty along the…
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BROWDER, Jack (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 1216
Businessman. His experiences as an officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war stateside training; forming and training the 741st Tank Battalion; amphibious training in England prior to the Normandy invasion; assignment as operations officer for the 741st; the fate of the DD tanks on D-Day; assignment as executive officer for the…
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BURRIS, Charles W. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0657
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Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1945; liberation.
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CARTER, George (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0344
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Mugford during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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CIRULI, David (b. 1911) and Virginia (b. 1909)

Interview ID#
OH 0696
Farmers-ranchers. Their recollections concerning the Italian immigrant experience and their life as second generation Italians around Pueblo, Colorado. Education; old world customs; nativism; development of the Ciruli Brothers produce business; farming and ranching activities.
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COMPERE, Dr. Dolphus E. III (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 1716
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. World War II veteran. Childhood in Dallas, Texas, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, and internship at the University of Michigan prior to enlistment in the Army Air Corp as a surgeon with the Third Air Commando Group. Experiences in the…
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CRESSON, Louis (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 0887
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pennsylvania; joining the CCC; assignment to Camp 74 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania and Camp 70 in Renovo, Pennsylvania; description of camps; life in camps.
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DANIEL, James (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0348
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Hull during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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DENMON, Debbie (b. 1967)

Interview ID#
OH 1634
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Local news media personality and third-generation descendant of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Childhood in Denton; education in Denton public schools and at UNT; career in broadcast journalism; memories of great-grandmother Othella Hill, great-grandfather “Dollar Bill”…
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DUNCAN, Kenneth W. (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 0960
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Redvale, Colorado; camp move to Paradox Valley, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.
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ELLIS, Harry E. (b. 1908)

Interview ID#
OH 0520 BOH 0057
Executive, Dr Pepper Company. His and experiences concerning the development of the Dr Pepper Company. Discovery of the Dr Pepper formula and roles of Charles Cortes Alderton, Wade Morrison, and R. S. Lazenby; transfer of company headquarters from Waco to Dallas, 1922; financial difficulties during 1920s; his employment with Dr Pepper, 1931;…
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FEATHERLING, Howard (b. 1918)

Interview ID#
OH 0443
His experiences at the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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