Oral history interview with William Waybourn. Topics covered include: Waybourn's leadership roles with the Dallas Gay Alliance and the Resource Center Dallas, Gay Urban Truth Squad (GUTS) protests, the AIDS epidemic, and Waybourn's recollections about AIDS activist and Resource Center Dallas volunteer Duane Puryear.

Rain Stick, a piece for live-electronic keyboard, tape, and dance, uses light sensitive continuous controllers in the performance of the live electronic parts of this piece. The choreographic aspects of the dance were influenced by the images from the poem Gallisted Campfire by Stuart Heady: A hushed whipser hangs in the air; Ancient rock trembles to life as if to answer. Soft is the spirit, and its traces are in the tissue of time. Here before, here before, hands touch- though a millenium apart.................... The sound sources of the music are digital synthesizers and samplers controlled and modified by computer. A MIDI controller automated mixing console was also used. Using rain sticks in actual dance performance and setting rock sculptures on the stage add the inspiration to awareness of Earth Day. List of Instruments & Equipment Used Sound Sources: Yamaha DX7II, Roland D50, Yamaha TX802, Yamaha TX16W Sampler, Akai S900 Sampler Audio Processors: Yamaha DMP7, Yamaha SPX90, Yamaha DEQ7 Computer: Macintosh SE/HD, Opcode Studio Plus Two Interface, JLCooper MSB Plus MIDI Patch Bay

Strange Attractors v1.Ob is a composition which involves live interaction between bassoon and computer-controlled electronics and synthesizers. The work was commissioned by bassoonist William Ludwig for the 1990 International Double Reed Society Conference. Strange Attractors uses a Macintosh II computer to control a digital signal processor/mixer, an analog-to-MIDI converter and a Yahama TX802 synthesizer. The controlling software was created by the composer using THINK C and utilizing the Apple MIDI Manager. The Strange Attractors algorithm is a "hyper"-instrument for the bassoon. The hyper-instrument, which resides in the computer, is under the control of the bassoonist through the analog-to-MIDI converter. The reactions of the hyper-instrument translate acoustic performance parameters into computer synthesis and signal processing parameters. Dynamics are translated into spacial location, amount of harmonization, and synthesis, while the number of sonic events controls the synchronization of acoustic and synthesis performance. The hyper-instrument is made of four virtual instruments which progressively become delayed from the sonic event which trigger them. THe voices then become progressively re-synchronized only to become more and further delayed again. This cycle oscillates faster and faster as the piece progresses until the virtual instruments reach their maximum delay. The further along in the piece, the longer the …

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Reas. Reas grew up in Indiana and Ohio and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. After training, he boarded the USS Houston (CA-30) at Charleston, South Carolina. He was assigned to the aviation unit. On February 28, 1942, he survived the bombing and sinking of the ship. He and other survivors in life rafts were picked up by the Japanese the next day and taken to Java as a prisoner of war. He was taken to a ship and then back to an island, where he met survivors of the Australian ship HMAS Perth (D29). They were moved from Serang to Batavia. He was told to record the POW's occupations and those idenitified as skilled were sent to Japan. Inspired by this, he kept a detailed and complete list of the survivors that he kept hidden. From Java, the survivors are put on a cargo ship to Singapore. Then they went to Pynang by train. He then boarded another ship to Burma. Allied forces bombed a ship next to Reas. He describes living in bamboo huts while building the railroad. During one of the routine abuses in …

Lecture given Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Religious music touches on two explosive areas: 1) memories of music learned in our youth and 2) religious change. Throughout the 2,000 years of Christianity, change has always caused problems and music was often at the top of the hit list."

Lecture given Monday, June 27, 2005 at Abilene Christian University: "A fresh look at the "one another" passages in the New Testament provides a unique, often untried, way of living as community in our churches. Not only our individual relationships, but our leadership styles, our evangelism, our worship and our fellowship should be controlled by these 1-A principles."

Lecture given Monday, June 27, 2005 at Abilene Christian University: "A fresh look at the "one another" passages in the New Testament provides a unique, often untried, way of living as community in our churches. Not only our individual relationships, but our leadership styles, our evangelism, our worship and our fellowship should be controlled by these 1-A principles."

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Raymond F. Hasker. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 22, 1922 and enlisted in the Navy on December 11, 1940. After graduating from Aviation Machinist School in May 1941, he sailed on the USS Wharton (AP-7) to Pearl Harbor. During the Japanese attack on December 7, he recalls removing wounded sailors from the water near the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) to the Mobile Hospital at Landing A and pulling damaged PBYs from the airfield with a tractor. He also recounts that he and other sailors spent the night on the roof of the Operations Building at Hickham Airfield armed with antiquated machine guns in anticipation of a Japanese troop landing. He describes taking photos of Eleanor Roosevelt during a visit to Honolulu. He also recounts a flight with an admiral in a new model aircraft that was known to be problematic. He describes how the plane crash landed in the water and the admiral telling him he was grounding all future flights in that model. He recalls that he got so bored while stationed at Pearl Harbor that he volunteered for Parachute Rigging school and graduated with …

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Leavelle. Leavelle graduated from high school in May 1944 and on July 8, 1944 he was sworn into the US Navy in Amarillo, Texas. His high school had offered a special course in radio operating, so he enrolled in the course and learned basic radio theory as well as how to copy Morse code. On 18 July, he reported to the Navy Recruiting and Processing Station at Lubbock, Texas where he was officially sworn into the Navy for a second time and enlisted under the Navy Reserve V-6 program. After boot camp at the San Diego Naval Training Station, Leavelle went to Navy Radio Operator School, graduating in May 1945 as a Seaman First Class Radioman. From there, he went to Camp Shoemaker (outside Oakland, California) for ship assignment - the USS Tamalpais (AO-96), reporting on May 23, 1945. The Tamalpais was new construction, just built in Sausalito, California at the Marin Ship Yards. After shakedown exercises off San Diego and loading five million gallons of potable water in San Pedro, the Tamalpais sailed for Eniwetok Island in the Marshall Islands on June 23, 1945. The Tamalpais …

Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Lecture given Monday, February 21, 2000, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "What should be a Christian's view of issues concerning church and state issues? Biblical history, e.g. the Psalms, 1 Samuel and Jeremiah, provide some perspectives that may need to be revisited."

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Taylor. Taylor joined the Navy in 1942 and trained at Great Lakes as an electrician. He was assigned to USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) and was aboard when the kamikazes hit her. He was assigned to a damage control unit on the flight deck and was fighting fires from the first kamikaze strike when the second kamikaze struck. He was rescued from the water by a neighbor from back home who as a crewmember of USS Edmonds (DE-406). Taylor was injured badly and returned to a hospital in the US. Taylor stayed in the Navy and earned a commission.

Audio recording of a WDSU debate between Lee Harvey Oswald, Ed Butler, and Carlos Bringuier regarding Oswald's involvement with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

Lecture given Wednesday, February 22, 1995, 11:00 AM at Abilene Christian University

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Carpenter and Bob Hart. Carpenter served aboard USS South Dakota (BB-57) and shares anecdotes about his time aboard the ship as well as impressions and experiences. Ingram also interviewed Bob Hart about his experiences aboard the South Dakota. Hart came aboard in 1939. He shares opinions about various captains of the ship as well as anecdotes about his experiences.

Lecture given Wednesday, February 22, 1995, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University

Lecture presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Lecture given Monday, September 17, 2012, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Explore what contributes to the mass exodus of young adults in churches across all denominational lines. Learn practical ways to bridge the generation gap and intentionally foster healthy multi-generational ministries."

Lecture given Monday, September 21, 2009, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Pleasure afflicts people. Many drown along the journey in a sea of irrelevance, although they never miss church. How do we find the eternal kind of life promised by Jesus?"

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Lecture given Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at Abilene Christian University

Lecture given Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Christian spiritual formation is the process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others. God utilizes Scripture, people, personal experiences, contexts, literature, spiritual disciplines, theological reflections and praxis to transform believers into Christ-likeness. Come and find a balanced path to life in the Spirit."

Transcript of an oral interview with Ralph W. Johnson. Born in 1920, he was drafted into the Army Air Corps in October 1941. He was accepted into the Aviation Cadet program in 1942. He was sent to flight instructor school upon completion of his flight training in 1943. In Carlsbad, New Mexico, he instructed bombardier cadets in bombing and navigation techniques until 1944. He shares an anecdote about landing a plane when the engines were accidentally turned off by a bombardier cadet. He was transferred to Hobbs Air Force Base, New Mexico where he learned to fly B-29 and B-17 bombers. He discusses difficulties with the B-29 aircraft. In April 1945, he was transferred to Guam where he became a B-29 aircraft commander and flew combat missions. He describes missions along the coast of Japan. He talks about a mission in which the fuel tanks were accidentally dropped along with the bombs. He also describes his plane being hit by anti-aircraft fire and the flight from northern Japan to Iwo Jima. He shares an anecdote about a mission that earned him the nickname “Fireball.” After a brief period on inactive duty after the war, he returned to active duty and …

Lecture presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.