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OH 2017

For the Geezle Oral History Project. NTSC alumnus, football player, and member of the Geezles Fraternity. Childhood and public-school education in Dallas and Garland, TX; experiences as a high school football player and recruitment to North Texas in 1956; experiences with the North Texas freshman and varsity football teams; decision to join Geezles Fraternity, experiences with and lessons learned from fraternity members; experiences in North Texas business school; career as an insurance company executive, in the Marine Corps, and volunteer work as a Stephen Minister.

OH 2018

Attorney, state representative, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas, college president, and feminist leader. Childhood in a liberal, politically active family in Corpus Christi, Texas; experiences with racial segregation and discrimination; experiences in Corpus Christi public schools, the Hockaday School for Girls, Vassar College, and University of Texas Law School.

OH 1936

For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Childhood memories growing up in China and Japan. Masanobu’s music career. Tomoko’s early work as a midwife. Spiritual life and practices. Their married life together in simple living community.

OH 2010

UNT professor of jazz studies. His youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society. His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986), playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab Band and at venues around Denton.

OH 2009

For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. He discusses his family’s immigrant history from Vietnam to North Texas, his identity as a Texan, how he found his way to working in the culinary world, and what he hopes to see in the future of Vietnamese American cuisine.

OH 2008

UNT professor of jazz studies. His youth in Denver, CO during the 1960s and 1970s including thoughts on the Baptist Church community and Denver music venues such as the El Chapultapec. His work as a professional saxophone musician in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s touring all over the world with groups such as the Harry Connick Jr. Orchestra and Count Basie Orchestra.

OH 2007

Food blogger, photographer, and stylist. Discussion on her family’s immigrant history from Bangladesh to Scotland to Texas; her cultural and national identity; her work with food; experiences with food-shaming; and the act of de-colonizing food and recipes.

OH 2006

For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Swiss-born Elisabeth Gertrud Brolin discusses the defining moment of her life including the decision to move to the United States (DFW, TX) as well as her Christian faith. More specifically, she includes the reasons for her immigration, the first impressions of the U.S., the positive aspects of her experience as an immigrant and the reasons for becoming a committed Christian and how her faith fundamentally changed her life.

OH 2005

For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan; growing up in Pakistan; father’s experience working for Afghan government and being captured by Taliban; immigrating to the United States; work and education experiences in the United States; contract work with the Department of Defense related to the War in Afghanistan; family background; cultural ties to the Middle East.