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Oral History Interview with David A. Eargle, October 26, 1993

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Interview with David Eargle concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Eargle worked at camps in Waynesville, North Carolina (Company 443); Greer, South Carolina (Company 443); Switzer, South Carolina; Laurens, South Carolina; and Roseburg, Oregon (Company 3450). Appendix includes photocopy of Mr. Eargle's CCC discharge papers [2 p.]
Date: October 26, 1993
Creator: Pierce, Jeffrey & Eargle, David
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, February 26, 2014

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Interview with Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, a teacher from Fort Worth, Texas, who lived during the end of the Jim Crow era. Morne'y discusses her family background, attending grade school in Fort Worth, experiences with segregation and discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, attending North Texas State College, working at Parkland Hospital, her marriages and children, moving to California and back to Texas, her career with Fort Worth ISD, church activities and faith, thoughts on child education, and various related stories. In appendix are photos of her high school yearbook and her family, a petition from the Como neighborhood for utilities services in 1924, and her typed family history.
Date: February 26, 2014
Creator: Travis, Sarah & Alaman Morne'y, Exie Jean
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Michael Hurd, May 28, 2013

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Interview with Michael Hurd, a journalist and member of the Texas Black History Preservation Project from Houston, Texas. Hurd discusses growing up in Texarkana and Houston, his education and service in the Air Force, work with the Houston Post and USA Today, Juneteenth, researching black history, the Texas Black History Preservation Project and related efforts, being an historian, the history of Juneteenth and emancipation in Texas, and civil rights. In appendix are photographs of Hurd, clippings of his reporting, and URLs to videos he was involved in.
Date: May 26, 2013
Creator: Turner, Elizabeth Hays & Hurd, Michael
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Salvador Espino, September 26, 2007

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Interview with Fort Worth city councilman Salvador Espino as part of the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. The interview includes Espino's personal experiences about childhood and education, having a career a computer consultant, accountant, and attorney, volunteering for Catholic Diocese, and running for a seat representing District Two on the Fort Worth City Council. Espino also discusses the district demographics and priorities, the creation of Latinos Unidos, and his involvement in Fort Worth's 2006 immigrant rights march. The interview also includes an appendix with an article written by Espino.
Date: September 26, 2007
Creator: Moye, Todd & Espino, Salvador
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Barsanti, June 26, 2004

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Interview with accountant and Army veteran William Barsanti. The interview includes Barsanti's personal experiences about the European Theater during World War II, his youth in an Italian immigrant family, graduating from high school and enrolling in college, then in the Enlisted Reserve Corps, being inducted into the U.S. Army, basic training, being selected for the Army Specialized Training Program, transferring to the 106th Infantry Division, and his assignment to Cannon Company as a supply sergeant. Barsanti also talks about the living conditions at Stalag XII-A and Stalag II-D, Stargard, Germany, evacuating to Bremervorde, Germany, liberation, and his postwar business career in Europe.
Date: June 26, 2004
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Barsanti, William
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary Jane Dellinger, May 26, 2000

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Interview with Mary Jane Dellinger. The interview includes Dellinger's personal experiences about working as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company during World War II, and assembling time fuses for bombs at the Hamilton Watch Company. Dellinger also talks about pre-war work experience in silk mills, effects of the Great Depression on her family, her marriage to Clair Dellinger, personal motivations for seeking defense work, her decision to change jobs and work for Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, her work on the F4U Corsair fuselage assembly line, sexual harassment, production incentives and awards, war bond drives, shift work, transportation arrangements, and her decision to quit.
Date: May 26, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dellinger, Mary Jane
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Rick Dale, November 26, 2007

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Interview with U.S. Marine Corps Pilot Richard Dale as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Dale's personal experiences of childhood, education at Baylor University and Texas A&M, attending training at Camp Pendleton, California, Quantico, Virginia, and officer candidate school. Additionally, Dale talks about his decision to enter the Marines aviation program, his assignments to various naval air stations, the particulars of "tailhook" aviation, and his civilian career with Northwest Airlines. The interview also includes an appendix with a photograph and an active duty summary.
Date: November 26, 2007
Creator: Bristow, Lauren & Dale, Richard C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Vladislava Alaytseva, November 26, 2012

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Interview with Vladislava Alaytseva, Uzbekistani-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Alaytseva's personal experiences of childhood in Uzbekistan, moving to the U.S., transitioning to the American school system, her first impressions the U.S., and the culture shock in America. Additionally, Alaytseva talks about the transition of Uzbekistan from a Soviet satellite to an independent Muslim nation, her mother's family in Russia, the differentiation between being ethnically Russian or Uzbekistani, the definition of "culture," the comparison of life in Uzbekistan and the U.S., and the elements of Uzbekistani culture brought to America.
Date: November 26, 2012
Creator: Brooks, David & Alaytseva, Vladislava
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Bill King, April 26, 2018

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Interview with Dr. Bill King, a radiologist from Denton, Texas. King discusses his family background and upbringing, working for the Denton County Chronicle as a teenager, grade school, attending North Texas State College and becoming a doctor, the history of the Rotary Club, and his involvement in it.
Date: April 26, 2018
Creator: Chegwidden, Caitlin & King, Bill
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Crist, May 26,1993

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Interview with Robert Crist from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression as well as his childhood and his experiences leading up to joining the CCC. Crist worked at a camp in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania (Company 1377).
Date: May 26, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crist, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lucretia Greene, March 26, 1994

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Interview with Lucretia Greene about her experiences as an employee of the Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in Texarkana, Texas during World War II. Greene discusses the hiring procedures, the job assignments, and the relationships between male and female workers.
Date: March 26, 1994
Creator: Brantley, Janet G. & Greene, Lucretia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Don E. Ferrier, March 26, 2019

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Transcript of an interview with Don Ferrier, a Certified Green Builder and CEO of Ferrier Companies, discussing the founding and development of the business, particularly green building technologies and high energy efficiency for both residential homes and commercial remodeling.
Date: March 26, 2019
Creator: Ferrier, Donald E. & Stark, Johnnie
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with C. Dan Smith, September 26, 2019

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Transcript of an interview with [C.] Dan Smith, UNT Athletic Hall of Fame Member, Distinguished Alumnus of UNT and Geezle Fraternity, and Board of Regents Member (Chair for two years). Smith shares concerning his childhood in Hawkins, TX, and his public education in Lewisville, TX; Insights about his athletic football career in high school, at Texas Technological College, and North Texas State College; Recollections on graduating in business administration, beginning a career in securities, and establishing his own business, CDS Resources; Views on staying committed and involved as an alumnus; His perspectives on the role of the Geezle Fraternity and its contribution to his college education, his career progress, and his continuing loyalty to UNT.
Date: September 26, 2019
Creator: Pettit, John D. & Smith, Dan
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Clarence Broadnax, March 26, 2014

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Interview with Clarence Broadnax, a business owner and civil rights activist from Karnack, Texas. Broadnax discusses direct action challenging segregation at Dallas-area businesses, the unification of the Dallas civil rights movement, being jailed, civil rights figures, the Dallas Committee, segregation at sports games, becoming the first black hair stylist in the area, the Kennedy assassination, Barack Obama, nightlife and recreation in Karnack and Dallas, the Civil Rights Act, Dallas as a community, and reflections on his experiences.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Fichera, Aaron & Broadnax, Clarence
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Greg Joly, July 26, 2014

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Interview with Greg Joly, a homesteader from Northampton, Massachusetts. Joly discusses his family background, education, gardening and Polish culture, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work, establishing a farm in Jamaica, Vermont, the Good Life Center, thoughts on the Nearings and their relationship with each other and others, the community, the Nearings' spiritualism and Theosophy, and analyses of the Nearings' work.
Date: July 26, 2014
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Joly, Greg
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Robert Moore, October 26, 2013

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Interview with Robert Moore, a LGBT-focus journalist from Hurst, Texas. Moore discusses attending Texas Tech University, his career, working for Dallas Gay News and starting Dallas Voice, changes in attitudes toward LGBT people in Texas, HIV-AIDS, LGBT guilds and associations, and keeping up with changing media.
Date: October 26, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Moore, Robert Wade
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ginger Heiman, July 26, 2012

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Interview with Ginger Heiman, certified public accountant, conducted for the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. She discusses her childhood and education in Denison, Texas, and at Grayson College, Southern Oklahoma University, and UNT; career as a Certified Public Accountant; work with the UNT comptroller’s office and the UNT Foundation.
Date: July 26, 2012
Creator: Kilgore, Deborah K. & Heiman, Ginger
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Daniel Thomas, February 26, 1999

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Transcript of an interview with Daniel Thomas, a Navy veteran (4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences while attached to the 4th Marine Division as a medic in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Thomas discusses his decision to join the Navy in 1943; Hospital Corps School, San Diego, 1943; assignment to the Fleet Marine Force; Field Medical School, 1944; assignment to the 4th Marine Division, 1944; Iwo Jima, February, 1945; detailed description of casualties and their treatment during the battle for Iwo Jima; and the postwar effects of his Iwo Jima experience.
Date: February 26, 1999
Creator: Lane, Peter B.; Byrd, Richard W. & Thomas, Daniel B., 1925-2007
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary George Billingsley Sullivan, November 26, 2009

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Transcript of an interview with Mary George Billingsley Sullivan, a longtime Denton County resident, concerning her family history; farming life, religious practice, and education in the public schools of Argyle, Texas; marriage to Carson Sullivan and 1929 move to city of Denton; work for Denton Building and Loan Association; 1951 move to Dallas and 1973 return to Argyle; recollections of Influenza epidemic, Great Depression, World War II, and Kennedy assassination; admiration for Barack Obama. Appendix consists of four photocopies of photographs.
Date: November 26, 2009
Creator: Taylor, D. J. & Sullivan, Mary George Billingsley, 1908-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Kathy Jack, October 26, 2009

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Transcript of an interview with Kathy Jack concerning her childhood and education in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas; "coming-out" narrative; social life in Dallas's gay and lesbian bars; effects of AIDS epidemic on Dallas gay community; career as employee, manager, and eventually owner of various bars; involvement in and support of various Gay Pride events; thoughts about future of gay rights movement.
Date: October 26, 2009
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Jack, Kathy, 1957-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dean M. McCall, February 26, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dean M. McCall, February 26, 1971

Interview with Dean M. McCall, Army Air Corps veteran and survivor of the siege of Corregidor. The interview includes McCall's personal experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. McCall talks about the Japanese bombing of Nichols Field, the fall of Bataan, the fall of Corregidor and his capture, Bilibid Prison, hell ship to Japan, copper mining at Motiyama, Honshu, American air raids and naval bombardment, and liberation.
Date: February 26, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & McCall, Dean M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Renee Shelton, November 26, 2006

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Interview with Renee Shelton, a resident of Eastland County, regarding her experiences as a member of the African American community there. Shelton discusses starting school during the period of integration, discrimination she experienced, interracial dating, local community organizations, work at E. L. Graham Hospital and Russell-Newman, and prejudice experienced by her children in smaller Texas towns.
Date: February 26, 2006
Creator: Rose, DeAnn & Shelton, Renee
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with J. C. Matthews, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with J. C. Matthews, 1984

Interview with former president of North Texas State College and North Texas State University J. C. Matthews from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Matthews recollects some of his experiences and thoughts as a child and while he was a student at school. He also comments on several personal experiences as a teacher, including when he was appointed as a laboratory school teacher, a curriculum committee member, and the dean of the college of education. He also talks about the desegregation of North Texas State College in 1955.
Date: July 26, 1984
Creator: Adams, Wayne; Blair, Witt; Jenkins, Floyd; Kingery, Dwane; Marquis, R. L.; Mohat, Imogen et al.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joseph Mannion, April 26, 1986 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Joseph Mannion, April 26, 1986

Interview with Navy veteran Joseph Mannion. The interview includes Mannion's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: April 26, 1986
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Mannion, Joseph
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library