Salesman, electric furnace pioneer, corporation founder. Family background; education; rural schoolteacher; salesman of school equipment, electrical appliances; employment with Mathes; building dealerships; development of electric furnace; founding…

College professor, musician. His recollections concerning the development of the Electronic Music Center in the North Texas State University School of Music. Early interest in music; sister’s influence; 344th Infantry Band; “Monk” Peters Band;…

Educator. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Family life and growing up around Groesbeck, Texas, during the Great Depression; his education through Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute; thoughts about Franklin D.…

Business executive. His experiences as a statistics control officer in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and business experience in the dairy industry; entry into the Army, December 29, 1941; Air Forces Administrative…

For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA flight controller, communications officer, and manager. Childhood in Lufkin, Orange, and Huntington, Tex.; education at Stephen F. Austin State University and Lamar State College of Technology; career as…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Canadian-American immigrant to suburban Flower Mound, Texas. Childhood and education in Montreal and at Queen’s University in Ontario; experience as member of Anglophone minority and as a Jew in…

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Russian-born immigrant to suburban Plano, Texas. Childhood and education in Kazan, Russia, Poland, and Izhevsk, Russia; parents’ work as geophysicists; perceptions of glasnost and perestroika;…

Growing up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia where the economy was based on industrial chemical production and coal mining, Stan Ingman experienced environmental degradation first-hand. An affinity for the outdoors and a concern for public health…

Randy Loftis, M.A., Lecturer in the UNT Mayborn School of Journalism, is an award-winning journalist with over thirty years of experience as an environmental and investigative reporter. His career path has afforded him a profoundly unique…