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Oral History Interview with Ruth Ann Johnston, July 29, 2020
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Interview with Ruth Ann Johnston, a former trimmer from El Paso, Texas. Johnston describes her background and journey to becoming involved in the Dallas fashion industry, education at Texas Tech and the University of North Texas, work as a trimmer in the display department in several stores, including Neiman Marcus, the "NM Way," the AIDS epidemic and its impact on the fashion industry, her shoe collection, and the importance of developing relationships in the industry.
Date:
July 29, 2020
Creator:
Becker, Annette & Johnston, Ruth Ann
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nan Alexander, July 22, 2020
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Interview with Nan (Barbara) Alexander, a former model and executive at Neiman Marcus. Alexander discusses her background, beginning work in the fashion industry as a store model, her education, working as a sample model and "Girl Friday" at Howard Wolf Inc. in Fair Park, being a sportswear model at Neiman Marcus, the layout of the store, the apparel market, and the history of fashion in the DFW area.
Date:
July 22, 2020
Creator:
Becker, Annette & Alexander, Barbara
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Larry Leathers, July 15, 2020
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Interview with Larry Leathers, former Visual Manager at Neiman Marcus from Dallas, Texas. Leathers describes his background in theater and dance, fascination with the "frozen theater" of display mannequins, entry into the fashion industry, promotion from display creator to manager of a department to manager of a whole store, stories about working with clients, family, change over time, and the importance of remembering the heart of the fashion industry.
Date:
July 15, 2020
Creator:
Becker, Annette & Leathers, Larry
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Naomie Rudelson, July 13, 2020
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Interview with Naomi Rudelson, a former department store executive from New Orleans, Louisiana. Rudelson discusses involvement with the fashion industry in Dallas, starting with work as an assistant to a personal shopper and eventually becoming vice president of several different department stores. Rudelson also describes designing a curriculum for students at the University of North Texas, and the work environment at Dalton's department store, Sanger-Harris, Winkleman's in Detroit, and May Company Los Angeles.
Date:
July 13, 2020
Creator:
Becker, Annette & Rudelson, Naomi
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., July 31, 2015
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Transcript of an interview with Keith Heavrin Jr., homesteader and simple life advocate. Heavrin shares concerning his childhood; military experiences in Vietnam; love of the sea; discovering the Nearings and the Simple Life; decision to homestead in Maine; memories of the Nearings and the Good Life Center.
Date:
July 31, 2015
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Heavrin, Keith Jr., 1946-2016
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Janine Winn, July 18, 2015
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Transcript of an interview with Janine Winn, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; early experiences gardening and outdoors; decision to homestead in Maine.
Date:
July 18, 2015
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Winn, Janine, 1948-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lee E. Cart, July 17, 2015
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Transcript of an interview with Lee Cart, homesteader and simple life advocate, concerning her childhood; discovering homesteading and self-sufficiency; decision to homestead in Maine.
Date:
July 17, 2015
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Cart, Lee E., 1954-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gretchen Legler and Ruth Hill, July 14, 2015
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Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of meat.
Date:
July 14, 2015
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A.; Hill, Ruth & Legler, Gretchen
Object Type:
Book
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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 Diane B. Fitzgerald, July 24, 2014
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Transcript of an interview with Diane Fitzgerald, homesteader and simple life advocate. Fitzgerald shares concerning her childhood; early experiences with farming and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings; decision to homestead; and memories of the Nearings.
Date:
July 24, 2014
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Fitzgerald, Diane B., 1940-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Max Schlotter, July 21, 2014
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Transcript of an interview with Max Schlotter, WWII and Korean War Navy veteran. Schlotter shares concerning his childhood in the Congo and Texas; family history; living on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation near Livingston, Texas; enlistment in the Navy; assignment on USS Thurston; attending the V-12 program; assignment on the USS Long Island in the Pacific Theater; post-war college and teaching; recall by Navy during the Korean War; assignment to USS Adirondack and Naples, Italy; and post-war life. Appendix includes photos, a map of the Okinawa Invasion, and biographical notes.
Date:
July 21, 2014
Creator:
Millier, Callie & Schlotter, Max, 1924-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Doris Groves, July 14, 2014
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Interview with Doris Groves, a homesteader from Pequannock, New Jersey. Groves discusses growing up, school, her first marriage, moving to Maine, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work and meeting Helen, her second marriage and children, purchasing a stead, the family's lifestyle, the Good Life Center, gender, vegetarianism, and the Nearings.
Date:
July 14, 2014
Creator:
Pomerleau, Clark A. & Groves, Doris
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Estelle Adams, July 5, 2014
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Interview with Estelle Adams discussing her life growing up in Wheelock, Texas as well as her grandparents who left Georgia and other extended family members. She also talks about her experiences teaching in various Texas towns, including a segregated school in Bryan, Texas and being transferred to a school in Dallas, Texas during integration.
Date:
July 5, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Tiffany & Adams, Estelle Mitchell
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Don Maison, July 30, 2013
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Interview with Don Maison, President and Chief Executive Officer of AIDS services of Dallas. The interview includes Maison's personal experiences about his childhood, working with the Dallas County Juvenile Department, being gay, being involved with the gay community, and his experiences as a lawyer. He particularly talks about being involved with the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Village Station arrests, and the AIDS crisis.
Date:
July 30, 2013
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Maison, Don
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mary Alice Reding, July 20, 2013
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Interview with Mary Alice Reding, a resident of Aubrey, Texas and a graduate of the University of North Texas, regarding her experiences growing up in Aubrey, schooling, her father J. M. Coffey, who was a representative in the Texas legislature, local businesses, other town residents, and residences.
Date:
July 20, 2013
Creator:
Goin, Deborah & Reding, Mary Alice
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harryette Ehrhardt, July 9, 2013
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Transcript of an interview with Harryette Ehrhardt, an educator, politician, and LGBT rights advocate. Ehrhardt shares concerning her graduate school experience; gay community; memories of Donald Baker; discrimination against gay men in the public school system; struggle for LGBT civil rights; childhood and young adult years; family history; work within the gay community; Dallas Women's Political Caucus; activism and advancement of the Dallas LGBT community.
Date:
July 9, 2013
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Ehrhardt, Harryette B., 1934-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cameron Lowry, July 2, 2013
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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Cameron Lowry, member of the United States Army and Texas National Guard, and ROTC recruiter. In the interview he discusses his decision to join the army, experiences at the New Mexico Military Institute, being stationed in Kuwait, missions with the Texas National Guard, and position as an ROTC recruiter at the University of North Texas. Appendix includes photos of Lowry.
Date:
July 2, 2013
Creator:
Malone, Timothy A. & Lowry, Cameron
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Campbell Read, July 1, 2013
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Interview with Campbell Read, a professor at Southern Methodist University and Dallas-area LGBT activist from Edinburgh, Scotland. Read discusses fighting police harassment, organizing a televised rebuttal to televangelist James Robison's condemnation of the gay community, important members of the community in Dallas and Denton, attending college in Lebanon and the United States, becoming involved with gay rights' activities at SMU, his family, and bird-watching. In appendix are pictures of demonstration signs Read carried and relevant newspaper clippings.
Date:
July 1, 2013
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Read, Campbell
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 Mae Cora Peterson, July 25, 2012
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Interview with South Carolina-born African American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, Mae Cora Peterson, a non-profit administrator and educator. The interview includes Peterson's personal experiences of childhood on the South Carolina State College campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina, life under the Jim Crow laws, working at Border Mission, her move to and impressions of Fort Worth under Jim Crow laws, graduate school at the University of Michigan, and colorism. Peterson talks about her husband's job at Maxwell Steel in Fort Worth, taking a cruise to Havana, Cuba, on a Jim Crow passenger ship, other blacks' disbelief of privileged childhood and insulation from the full effects of segregation, education jobs at various colleges, working as Executive Secretary for the Fort Worth YWCA, and working as the dean of girls for Fort Worth ISD. Additionally, Peterson gives details on segregated Fort Worth high schools and desegregation, and her trip to London and Paris with her daughter. The interview includes an appendix with letters, contracts, job registration forms, yearbook excerpts, and an article about Mae Cora Peterson.
Date:
July 25, 2012
Creator:
Moye, Todd & Peterson, Mae Cora
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Douglas Chadwick, July 19, 2012
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Interview with Douglas Chadwick, former executive director of the UNT Foundation from Dallas, Texas. Chadwick discusses his family background and education at Southern Methodist University, his career in administration, work as Director of Planned Giving at UNT, involvement with the UNT Foundation and work as executive director, building connections and financial support, changes in the Foundation through the years, thoughts on the future of the Foundation and University, and his retirement.
Date:
July 19, 2012
Creator:
Kilgore, Deborah K. & Chadwick, Douglas
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Coy Carter, July 28, 2010
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Transcript of an interview with Coy Carter, longtime resident of Weatherford, Texas, discussing his childhood in Weatherford and Spring Creek, Texas; farming in Spring Creek; memories of the Great Depression; ranching; tenure as sheriff.
Date:
July 28, 2010
Creator:
Liles, Debbie & Carter, Coy, 1929-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dolphus Edward Rowan, July 17, 2007
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Interview with Ed Rowan, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Gadsden, Alabama. Rowan discusses his family background, education, work, purchasing an airplane, flying over the the wreck of the Hindenburg, joining the National Guard and flying coastal patrols, becoming a bomber pilot, his B-17 crew, the various missions they flew in the European Theater, fighters, flak, equipment, tactics, leaving the service, and working as an airline pilot. In appendix is a photo of Rowan's civilian plane, his Distinguished Flying Cross citation, his appointment to the Reserves, a list of missions, flight logs, and a fact sheet about the 381st Bomb Group,
Date:
July 17, 2007
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin & Rowan Jr., Dolphus Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Gayle, July 15, 2006
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Interview with African American North Texas State University alumnus James Gayle. The interview included Gayle's personal experiences of childhood, playing basketball at Fort Worth's all-black Terrell High School, attending North Texas and enrolling in the ROTC program, and his experience as a boarder in "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton. Gayle talks about the comparison of race relations in Artesia, New Mexico, and Waco and Forth Worth, Texas, the "neutral" stance of NT administration toward black students and the "self-support" system among students, as well as his relationships with professors and white students, and his perception of what he gained from his NT experience.
Date:
July 15, 2006
Creator:
Cervantez, Brian & Gayle, James
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library