Degree Department

Oral History Interview with W. Hoyt Baird, February 14, 1980, and Vernon Baird, February 28, 1980 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. Hoyt Baird, February 14, 1980, and Vernon Baird, February 28, 1980

Interviews with W. Hoyt Baird and Vernon Baird, chairman of the executive committee and President of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries, respectively, concerning the history of the Mrs. Baird’s Bakery Co. and history of the Baird family of Fort Worth.
Date: {1980-02-14,1980-02-28}
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Baird, W. Hoyt
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Henry D. Akin Jr., 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Henry D. Akin Jr., 1989

Interview with Henry D. Akin Jr., an attorney from Amarillo, Texas. Akin discusses his family background, initial work as a lawyer and representing Richardson ISD, the Civil Rights Act, desegregating, issues with government financing while he was on the Richardson board, the Green Decision, Swann v. Charlotte-Meclenburg and busing, balancing the school district and related cases, and the Biracial Committee.
Date: {1989-02-22,1989-03-30}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Akin, Henry D., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Henry D. Akin, Jr., February-March 1989 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Henry D. Akin, Jr., February-March 1989

Interview with Henry D. Akin, Jr., an attorney from Amarillo, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of work for the Richardson Independent School District integration of the Richardson and Hamilton Park schools, the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the closing of Hamilton Park Junior High School, and other legislation related to desegregation.
Date: {1989-02-22,1989-03-30}
Creator: Wilson, William & Akin, Henry D., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Herman W. Lay, 1974-1975 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Herman W. Lay, 1974-1975

Interview with Herman W. Lay, executive committee chairman of Pepsi Co., Inc., from Greensville, South Carolina. Lay discusses his childhood and education, his earlier jobs, working in distribution during the Depression, buying the Barrett Food Company and founding H. W. Lay & Co., Inc., the company's growth and expansion, merger with the Frito Co. and gaining nationwide distribution, buying the Red Dot Co., merger with Pepsi, continued expansion, work with Eastern Bloc countries, establishment in the Arab world, the Japanese market, involvement in the Dallas economy, and words on successful entrepreneurship.
Date: {1974-12-31,1975-02-20}
Creator: Caruth, Donald & Lay, Herman W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Olgie Ivey, Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, and Ben Ivey Jr., 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Olgie Ivey, Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, and Ben Ivey Jr., 1979

Interviews with Ben Ivey Jr., Olgie (Mrs. Ben) Ivey Sr., and Mary Louise Ivey Bardas, from Denton, Texas. The interviewees discuss Ben Ivey Sr's business ventures in Denton, including their family history, each's upbringing and education, the history and operations of businesses owned by the family, life in Denton, neighbors, and local government.
Date: {1979-10-17,1979-11-14}
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Ivey, Olgie; Bardas, Mary Louise Ivey & Ivey, Ben, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, June 16, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, June 16, 1971

Interview with Dr. Jack B. Scroggs, history professor at North Texas State University from Little Rock, Arkansas. Scroggs discusses his experience as chairman of the Faculty Search Committee at NTSU after the resignation of university president John J. Kamerick, and the process of finding a new president.
Date: June 16, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Scroggs, Jack B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dora Geneva Clement transcript

Oral History Interview with Dora Geneva Clement

Interview with Dora Geneva (Clement) Talkington (1886-1976) discussing how her family came to Texas and about growing up on her parents' farm, as well as other events including Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Waco when he was campaigning to be president.
Date: 1974~
Creator: McAmis, Odessa True Talkington & Talkington, Dora Geneva Clement
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interviews with Mary Kay Ash, November 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Mary Kay Ash, November 1974

Interview with cosmetics entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash. The interview includes Ash's personal experiences about her early sales career and its impact upon her future business philosophy, methods, and the success of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Ash talks about planning prior to launching the company, problems and solutions in the beginning, early legal problems with competitors, her concern for women's opportunities, development and growth of sales, the role of her children in the company, methods of recruiting, training, and attitude building, marketing and sales techniques, incentive plans, sales territories, pricing, the party plan, employee promotion, her views on successful managerial traits and on the motivational differences between men and women, applying the Golden Rule toward employees and customers, her attitudes and philosophy toward employee relations, using her intuition in decision making, and reasons for the growth of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Date: November 1974
Creator: Caruth, Donald L. & Ash, Mary Kay
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Richard Rogers, November 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Richard Rogers, November 1974

Interview with Richard Rogers, president of Mary Kay Cosmetics. The interview includes Rogers' personal experiences about forming a company. Rogers talks about his mother's (Mary Kay) selling career and its impact on her own company, relations with sales personnel, marketing and sales motivation, the wig business, pricing, the dual management system, legal aspects and government regulations, his views on government regulation, self-regulation, consumerism, product quality, reasons for going public with stock, financing methods, contract and private labeling, budgeting, expansion, reasons for the success of Mary Kay Cosmetics, specialization vs. diversification, building a management team, and his views on motivational differences between men and women.
Date: November 1974
Creator: Caruth, Donald L. & Rogers, Richard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, December 23, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, December 23, 1974

Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, an attorney and a Republican member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, concerning his experiences and personal views as a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention in 1974. Harris discusses the need for constitutional revision, Price Daniel, Jr. as chairman of the Constitutional Convention, the Finance Committee, the right-to-work provision, and the failure of the Constitutional Convention.
Date: December 23, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul Voertman, June 24, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul Voertman, June 24, 1977

Interview with Paul Voertman concerning his expriences as President of Voertman's Book Store in Denton, Texas. He discusses the founding of Voertman's by his father in 1925, the early years of the store, the Depression, the opening of a store near Texas Women's University, and the effects upon his business from North Texas State University opening its own book store. He also shares his thoughts on education, his early work experience, the growth in merchandise lines, and the problems of the book business.
Date: June 24, 1977
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd Harold & Voertman, Paul, 1929-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Wesley Bott, October 14, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Wesley Bott, October 14, 1977

Interview with Wesley Bott, a veteran of the Marine Corps from Racine, Wisconsin, discussing his experiences during the World War II Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Bott discusses training, life at the Kaneohe base, time as a police sergeant, and reminiscence of the attack itself.
Date: October 14, 1977
Creator: Bowman, Larry & Bott, Wesley
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979

Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, being a flying salesman, flying helicopters, and building the Aero Valley Flying School.
Date: February 8, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. J. Curry, March 29, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with O. J. Curry, March 29, 1979

Interview with O. J. Curry, Dean Emeritus of the College of Business at North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, regarding his background growing up on the family farm, his own education, experience as dean and what sort of materials were needed in the business department, staffing difficulties faced there, and changes in the education system over time.
Date: March 29, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Curry, O. J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, November 15, 1979

Interview with Bertha Rosenzweig, co-founder of Tex-Glass, Inc. in Decatur, Texas. The interview includes Rosenzweig's personal experiences about her education in New York, and having a teaching career. Rosenzweig talks about her family background, her knowledge of her husband's family background and his life in Europe during the Hitler era, his technical training, work in glass factories, starting his own glass factory in Vienna, fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece, the Jewish underground in Central Europe, fleeing to Egypt, Palestine, and his migration to the U.S. Additionally, Rosenzweig talks about their meeting and marriage, work in Canada and Mexico, opening a glass factory in Athens, Texas, moving to Decatur, employee relations, products and the production process, the distribution system, financing methods, her managing the business, sale of the business, and reparations from the Austrian government.
Date: November 15, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Rosenzweig, Bertha
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joyce Calhoon, November 20, 1979. transcript

Oral History Interview with Joyce Calhoon, November 20, 1979.

Interview with Joyce Calhoon, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the Texas book depository system, Jefferson County, and Liberty County
Date: November 20, 1979
Creator: Smith, Vicki & Calhoon, Joyce
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pat Ruyle, 1980 transcript

Oral History Interview with Pat Ruyle, 1980

Interview with Pat Ruyle, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Robert E. Lee High School history and Baytown history.
Date: 1980
Creator: Brown, Wanda & Ruyle, Pat
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ernest L. Ellis, June 30, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ernest L. Ellis, June 30, 1981

Interview with Ernest L. Ellis, owner and operator of Frank Ellis Dealer in Everything. The interview includes Ellis' personal experiences of employment with his father, Frank Ellis, in the general store. Ellis talks about his family background, effects of the Great Depression in New Hope, Texas businesses, food market opening, business operations during World War II, his employment as a feed salesman, general store advertising, his father's use of peddling wagon, Dallas fair and Mesquite trade day, and retirement.
Date: June 30, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Ellis, Ernest L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with C. S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981 (open access)

Oral History Interview with C. S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981

Interview with C. S. Turbeville, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas, regarding his family background, upbringing on the farm, connection to business and the stores his family owned, research and testing of baits, fishing tournaments, and involvement in the Chamber of Commerce. (appliance store)
Date: July 17, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Turbeville, Clarence S.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marvin Gearhart, August 17, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Marvin Gearhart, August 17, 1982

Transcript of an interview with Marvin Gearhart, chairman of board, president, and CEO of Gearhart Industries, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas about his experiences in the oil industry and Gearhart Industries' success.
Date: August 17, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Gearhart, Marvin
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nathan Donsky, September 11, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Nathan Donsky, September 11, 1982

Interview with Nathan Donsky, a business-owner from Dallas, Texas. Donsky discusses his family history, his upbringing, first job as a secretary, running small businesses in San Angelo and Forsan, Texas, founding Goren & Donsky's Pawn Shop, how he married his wife, expanding the business, starting Nathan's Jewelers, family happenings, company finances, and business partnerships and relations.
Date: September 11, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Donsky, Nathan
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982

Interview with Ernest Griffith, owner and operator of Griffith's Independent Ginner. The interview includes Griffith's personal experiences about education in Texola, Oklahoma, part-time employment as cotton picker, and being involved in building cotton gins and operating drug stores. Griffith also talks about his family background, the operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, buying cotton and retaining cotton seed, variations in cotton prices, sale of coal to farmers, buying grain for Kimball Milling Company, Weinert cotton gin personnel, significant changes in the cotton ginning business during thirty years, the ginning procedure, and civic and trade association activities.
Date: November 4, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffith, Ernest
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ikard Smith, January 7, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Ikard Smith, January 7, 1983

Interview with Ikard Smith, President and senior chairman of board, Mcclurkan’s, Wichita Falls, Texas. Smith shares concerning his family background; father’s employment with McClurkan’s store in Denton and Krum; father’s experiences opening and managing McClurkan’s store in Wichita Falls, 1907; comments on grandfather W. S. Ikard’s ranching activities in Clay County and relationship with Comanche chief, Quanah Parker; educational and social experiences at Wharton School; entry into business with father, 1946; expansion and modernization of facility; comments on popularity of hats and ball point pens, 1946; views on development of shopping malls and discount businesses; expansion into shopping center, Wichita Falls, 1956; comments on changes in retailing; training of salespeople; establishment of store in Golden Triangle Mall, 1981; personnel selection for Denton store; design of Denton store; comments on merger with Dunlap Company of Fort Worth, 1982; comments on growth of sales; views on profitability of downtown Wichita Falls store; comments on advertising; involvement in trade associations and civic activities.
Date: January 7, 1983
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Smith, Ikard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bob and Ada Reed Brewer, March 14, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bob and Ada Reed Brewer, March 14, 1984

Interview with Ada Reed and Bob Brewer, owners and operators of A. B. McGill and Company General Merchants. In the interview, the Brewers discuss their family backgrounds, marriage, losses on charge accounts during the Great Depression, the change from clerk-service to self-service operation of the store, the credit business, purchasing clothes at the Dallas fashion market, customer interests, changes in product lines, commercial and residential growth in the Bertram area, using direct mail and radio advertising, their involvement with the Texas Retail Association, factors in developing a successful business, and civic activities. The interview includes an appendix with a flyer, photographs, articles, and letters.
Date: March 14, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Brewer, Ada Reed & Brewer, Bob
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library