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LEGLER, Gretchen (b. 1960) and Ruth Diane Hill (b. 1956)

Interview ID#
OH 1886
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteaders and simple life advocates. Childhoods; early experiences with gardening, livestock, and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings and the simple life; homesteading.
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BANKS, Gary T. (b. 1944)

Interview ID#
OH 1341
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Attorney. Written letters from the Republic of (South) Vietnam to his wife and son in Denton, Texas. Topics include: troop morale; interrogation of enemy POWs; spot reports concerning information given by POWs and detainees; Tet Offensive, 1968; personal love poetry; miscellaneous personal family matters; future plans in civilian life; queries…
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KIBOKO, Tanya (b. *)

Interview ID#
OH 1803
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Congolese-born immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in Congo; differences in the school system; travelling around Africa; Congolese culture; moving to the DFW area; differences in food; attending historically black Wiley College; black community in Marshall, Texas; differences between…
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OKON, Howard (b. 1952)

Interview ID#
OH 1912
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Life in Dallas community, coming out experience. Architect and bar owner. Founding member of The Dallas Tavern Guild. Changes in the gay bar scene in Dallas. Police raids of gay bars. Backing politicians who supported the gay community. AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s affecting the bar scene.
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CUNNINGHAM, Bruce

Interview ID#
OH 1944
UNT ROTC Instructor. Video log of military experience. Enlisted in US Army in 1983. Attended Officer Candidate School in 1985; received commission as 2nd Lieutenant; completed Airborne Jumpmaster School, assigned to Italy with 82nd Airborne Division. Work with US Border Patrol. Comparisons to being a US soldier in the 1990s to 2010s. Iraq…
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MILLS, Mitzi (b. 1949)

Mitzi Mills is the President, co-owner, co-founder and creative director of Anzea Textiles located in Fort Worth, Texas. She and her partner Bruce Doeren founded the company in 1990 as a premier source for commercial, or “non-residential,” upholstery fabrics available for specifiers in the design industry. The Anzea story has been inspired by…
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LEWIS, Toni (b. 1956)

Interview ID#
OH 2024
For the Women Veterans Oral history Project. U.S. Air Force veteran. Childhood in New York and New Jersey; decision to enlist in the USAF in 1976; experiences in basic training at Lackland AFB, at technical school at Keesler AFB, at Offutt AFB, at Tinker AFB, and remote tour to Osan Air Base, South Korea, and the Philippines; experiences with…
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BYATT, Nancy (b. 1976)

Interview ID#
OH 2060

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Nancy Byatt is a perinatal psychiatrist, and director of the UMass program Lifeline for Family Center and also the program Lifeline for Moms. The interview centers on her work as the founder of The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms (MCPAP for…

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BROWN, Cheylon D. (OH 2091)

Interview ID#
OH 2091

For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former director of the UNT Multicultural Center. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT. 

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ALBARADO, Nolan J. (b. 1917)

Interview ID#
OH 0738
His experiences at Schofield Barracks with the 19th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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ANDERSON, Miles E. (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 0145
College administrator. 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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BAILEY, Kay (Hutchison) (b. 1943)

Interview ID#
OH 0305
Attorney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston, Republican. Her experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. Decision to enter politics; personal political philosophy; House speakership race; committee appointments; budget surplus and appropriations; public school financing; public utilities…
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BATES, William J. (b. 1916)

Interview ID#
OH 1420
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth and student days at Ohio University; enrollment in the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1940; primary flight training, Camp Gordon, Georgia, 1940-41; basic and advanced flight training, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1941-42; his decision to leave naval aviation; Midshipman’s School,…
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BILLINGSLEY, Mynila (b. 1903)

Interview ID#
OH 0386
Navy wife. Her experiences while living at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with her husband, Lieutenant Commander Oliver Billingsley, during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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BOWSER, Alpha L. (b. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 1256
His experiences as an artillery officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Education at U. S. Naval Academy, 1928-32; Officers Basic School, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1932; assignment as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Texas, 1933-34; Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1935-36; assignment to Marine security detail at Warm…
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BROCK, Euline (b. 1932)

Interview ID#
OH 0759
A follow-up to her earlier recollections concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s.
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BURGIN, Selwyn R. (b. 1914)

Interview ID#
OH 0805
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Terrell, Texas and Tyler, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Maydelle, Texas; transfer to a camp in Lindale, Texas; camp move to Marshall, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
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CAPPS, Thurman (b. 1919)

Interview ID#
OH 1196
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, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance in Burma, 1944-45; liberation.
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CHILES, Harrell E. (b. 1910)

Interview ID#
OH 0526 BOH 0047
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Oilman, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Western Company. Family background; experiences in merchant marine; roustabouting and roughnecking around Barbers Hill, Liberty, and Esperson Dome; education at University of Oklahoma; Depression experiences; employment with Reed Roller Bit Company; early contacts with Clint…
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COLE, Richard E. (b. 1915)

Interview ID#
OH 1401
Member of Doolittle's Raiders. His experiences as Jimmie Doolittle’s co-pilot during the Tokyo Raid of April 18, 1942. Pre-war education and job experiences; enrollment in the Civilian Pilot Training Program, 1939; enlistment in the Aviation Cadets Program, 1940; brief descriptions of primary, basic, and advanced flight training, 1940-41; B-25…
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CRAWFORD, Gladys P. (b. 1927)

Interview ID#
OH 1085
College professor. Her experiences during the desegregation of North Texas State College, 1954-56.
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CZERNER, Ingeborg Israelski (b. 1926)

Interview ID#
OH 0846
Clothing designer, Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Pre-Nazi discrimination in Germany; harassment by the Gestapo; Kristalnacht; evacuation to England as part of “Kinder Transport”; adjustment to life in England; emigration to the United States, 1947; meeting her future husband; career as a fashion designer; lasting…
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DELCO, Wilhelmina R. Fitzgerald (b. 1929)

Interview ID#
OH 1597
Former member of the Texas House of Representatives (D-Austin). Memories of childhood and education in all-black schools of Chicago, Illinois; family involvement in Chicago politics; education at Fisk University; marriage to Exalton A. Delco, Jr., and his experience as first African American Ph.D. student in biology at UT-Austin; Exalton Delco’s…
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DRAWE, Billy (b. 1923)

Interview ID#
OH 1397
Dairyman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment and boot camp, San Diego, California, 1942-43; tank training, El Cajon, California, 1943; tank mechanics school, Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1943; assignment as a replacement to the 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion at Guadalcanal, 1944; invasion of Guam, July-August, 1944;…
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EDWARDS, Sterling (b. 1920)

Interview ID#
OH 0191
His experiences at Hickam Field with the 407th Signal Aviation Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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