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 black women by whites; decision to attend Texas Woman’s University and earn degree in nursing; decision to return to Cisco; career as nurse in various hospitals throughout region; social life among African Americans in Eastland County

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in San Antonio, Texas; challenges of the Great Depression; decision to enter John Sealy College of Nursing of the University of Texas; decision to enlist in U.S. Army Reserves, January 1941; service in U.S.

Her experiences at the station hospital at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Her experiences at Tripler General Hospital during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1972-73. Assignment to the 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon; activities while providing immunization shots to Vietnamese orphans; social life and living conditions; Vietnamization of the war; effect of Vietnam experience on his later life.