For World War II Home Front Oral History Project. English and Humanities lecturer. Childhood in wartime Durant, Oklahoma; education at Robert E. Lee Elementary; sense of community; poor economy; wartime vitamin deficiencies; polio; reflecting on the war through a child’s eyes; post-war struggles; PTSD; role of religion in wartime Durant; gold star families; reflections on the Korean and Vietnam wars; experience in the Oklahoma Army National Guard; graduate school at the University of Oklahoma; hippies and the counterculture movement.