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Oral History Interview with Nancy Byatt, September 16, 2022

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Interview with Nancy Byatt, a perinatal psychiatrist from Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Byatt discusses background, family, education, experiences with women who had postpartum depression, starting The Lifeline for Family Center and the Lifeline for Moms at UMass, founding The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms, securing funding for the programs, and a sense of identity as a physician/scientist who partners with activists and advocates.
Date: September 16, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Byatt, Nancy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Sue Schrader, March 16, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Sue Schrader, Sources of Hope manager and LGBT community activist. Schrader shares concerning her childhood in Indiana; education; move to Texas; family history; homophobia in East Texas; move to Dallas; involvement in the Dallas Metropolitan Community Church (MCC); Dallas gay community in 1980s; MCC history; effects of AIDS crisis on the church and community; MCC's transition into the Cathedral of Hope; changes in the Dallas LGBT community.
Date: March 16, 2015
Creator: Mims, Michael & Schrader, Sue, 1941-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Rudy Bowling, February 16, 2014

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Rudy Bowling, former customer service agent for Braniff International Airways, concerning his experiences in the airline industry and working for Braniff. This interview is part of the Flying Voices oral history project.
Date: February 16, 2014
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Bowling, Rudy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with David Jordan, November 16, 2013

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with David Jordan, former Head of Dispatch for Braniff International Airways, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. In the interview Jordan discusses working as a flight dispatcher, being a part of the Braniff family, the transition to Harding Lawrence as chairman, Braniff's bankruptcy on May 12, 1982, and personal reflections on his time with Braniff. Appendix includes copy of a paper written by Jordan in 1958 concerning Braniff International Airways.
Date: November 16, 2013
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Jordan, David
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with L. D. LaQuey, November 16, 2013

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with L. D. LaQuey, former employee of Braniff International Airways, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. In the interview, LaQuey discusses working in various roles from the ticket counter to flight dispatch, the transition when Harding Lawrence took over, other personal experiences and anecdotes, and the bankruptcy of Braniff in 1982.
Date: November 16, 2013
Creator: Schnur, Abra & LaQuey, L. D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ceclia Bermejo Hernandez, February 16, 2013

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Interview with Cecelia Hernandez, a Mexican-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Hernandez discusses her schooling, her family, thoughts on college and first generation students, becoming and being a parent, working at Fort Worth ISD, and encountering struggles as a Hispanic person and parent. In appendix is her family tree.
Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo-Hernandez, Cecelia
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Josephine Bermejo, February 16, 2013

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Interview with Josephine Bermejo, first generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bermejo's recollections of schooling in Minnesota and Iowa, learning in English schools, leaving school for family obligations, and getting a GED in Fort Worth, Texas. Bermejo also talks about children's education and her thoughts on the future of Mexican American education. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo, Josephine
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Frances Tarlton Farenthold, June 16, 2012

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Interview with Frances "Sissy" Tarlton Farenthold, attorney, activist, former Texas state representative, and candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas (1972, 1974). She discusses her 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. Her father (Benjamin Tarlton Jr.)’s law practice and her decision to join it for a short period; work as director of Nueces County Legal Aid; decision to run for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives in 1968; experiences in the Texas Legislature, including the Sharpstown scandal and “the Dirty Thirty”; decision to run for governor in 1972 and 1974 and experiences on the campaign trail; career as a law professor, president of Wells College; experiences in various feminist, international women’s, and human rights organizations.
Date: June 16, 2012
Creator: Fields-Hawkins, Stephanie & Farenthold, Frances (Frances Tarlton), 1926-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Roy J. Grogan, March 16, 2010

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Interview with Roy J. Grogan, longtime Weatherford resident and elected official, as part of the Weatherford Oral History Project. The interview includes Grogan's personal experiences of childhood and education in Weatherford, Depression-era struggles, enlisting in the U.S. Navy, and World War II. Additionally, Grogan talks about his studies at Weatherford College, Duke University, and Duke Law, his legal career with the FBI and as a land developer, his political career on the Weatherford City Council and Weatherford College Board of Regents, the integration of Weatherford schools, and his involvement in state party politics. The interview includes an appendix with Grogan's resume.
Date: March 16, 2010
Creator: Liles, Debbie & Grogan, Roy J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Angela Bynum, November 16, 2007

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Interview with Angela Bynum, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Bynum's personal experiences of childhood and education in California and Texas, enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic and advanced training as a motor transport operator, training in avoidance of improvised explosive devices, and transport missions between Iraq and Kuwait. Bynum also discusses her inability to withstand Airborne training, the decision to leave active duty in 2002, her use of the GI Bill benefits to attend Tarrant Community College, the 2004 call-up from reserve duty and deployment to Iraq, her family's concerns regarding deployment, and aspects of daily life for American soldiers stationed in Iraq.
Date: November 16, 2007
Creator: Castillo, Vogel & Bynum, Angela
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Harriett Shelton Collins, September 16, 2006

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Interview with longtime resident of Cisco, Texas, Harriett Shelton Collins as part of the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. The interview includes Collins' personal experiences about education in Cisco's all-black, one-room Smithville Elementary School, her pregnancy and marriage to Bill Collins, working at the Boss Glove Factory, earning her GED, entering beauty school, and earning a degree as a Licensed Vocational Nurse. Additionally, Collins speaks about social life among blacks in Cisco, especially in church activities, her experiences with racial discrimination, the phenomenon of "passing" among blacks in Cisco and elsewhere, her experiences at "Negro Achievement Day" at the Texas State Fair in Dallas, and her children's experiences in public school during desegregation.
Date: September 16, 2006
Creator: Rose, Harriett DeAnn & Collins, Harriett Shelton
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jo Cyel Rodgers, March 16, 2006

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Transcript of an interview with Jo Cyel Rodgers, a member of the first generation of African-American students at North Texas State College, concerning her remembrances about her childhood and education in Fort Worth, Texas. Rodgers discusses her experiences at I.M. Terrell High School; decision to enroll at North Texas as a sixteen-year-old high school graduate in 1957; off-campus life in "Shack Town" and support from black citizens of Denton; social life among African-American students and relations with white students and faculty; experiences with President J.C. Matthews; graduation with major in physical education in 1962; teaching career in Fort Worth ISD during era of desegregation and later experiences with "Trailblazers" organization.
Date: March 16, 2006
Creator: Yancey, Sherelyn & Rodgers, Jo Cyel
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Janell Myers, August 16, 2003

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Transcript of an interview with with Dr. Janell Myers, counselor, concerning her recollections of the Texas International Pop Festival, in Lewisville, Texas, Labor Day Weekend, 1969. Myers discusses her conservative family background in Dallas, Texas; her attraction to the hippie counterculture as a teenager; hanging out with hippies in Lee Park in Dallas; her college experience at North Texas State University in Denton; her participation in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and sit-ins; her admiration of singer Janis Joplin; her decision to attend the Texas International Pop Festival; activities of the Hog Farm at the festival; use of drugs and alcohol at the festival; comments about the various rock groups at the festival; activities of "Wavy Gravy"; lasting memories of the festival.
Date: August 16, 2003
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Myers, Janell
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Edward J. Drake, 2002

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Interview with attorney and Army Air Forces veteran Edward J. Drake. The interview includes Drake's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, youth and education in Dallas, Texas, enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, various training programs, bombing transportation facilities during and after the Ardennes Offensive, crash-landing in Belgium after his plane was hit, and linking up with American troops. Additionally, Drake talks about his assignment to the 91st Bomb Group, the routine for a typical mission, formation flying, flying through enemy flak, rest and relaxation on-base and in London, recuperating from a collapsed lung, his return to combat for three more missions, and his return to the crash site of his plane 57 years later. The interview includes an appendix with "The Last Flight of 'Jezebel,'" written by Drake.
Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Drake, Edward J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, November 16, 1999

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Interview with E. Benjamin Dunn, a Army WWII veteran and POW from Gorham, Illinois, who was captured by the Japanese on Java with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Dunn discusses training in the Army, transfer to 2-131 and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment in Batavia and later Changi Prison Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, and liberation.
Date: November 16, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Dunn, E. Benjamin
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., February 16, 1999

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Transcript of an interview with Frederick J. Holland, Jr., an Army Air Forces veteran, concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Holland discusses his early employment with REA Express; basic training, Fort Miles Standish, Massachusetts, 1942; his transfer to the Air Force and assignment to Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1942; Officer Candidate School, Miami, Florida, 1943; assignment to India; assignment to Dum Dum Airport, Calcutta, 1943; his role in supervising and shipping cargo over "The Hump" (Himalaya Mountains) to China; assignment to Baruipur Airport, Calcutta; his role in the development and operation of the first mobile conveyor unit to load and unload cargo; awarding of the Bronze Star for his invention. Appendix includes one leaf that gives history of the mobile conveyor and one leaf that shows four images of the mobile conveyor.
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Holland, Frederick J., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Nick Sanchez, February 16, 1999

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Interview with Nick Sanchez, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Laredo, Texas. Sanchez discusses working in radio when the war began, becoming a radio technician in the Army Air Force, deployment to India and operations there, going missing in China after surviving a plane crash, and the end of the war. In appendix are an autobiographical sketch of Sanchez's service, a copy of a diary recording his experience "bailing-out," and his official military statement of the event.
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Sanchez, Nick
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ed Bearden, April 16,1998

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Transcript of an interview with Ed Bearden from Ellis County, Texas, concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date: April 16, 1998
Creator: Hughen, Bill & Bearden, Ed, 1921-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Harry Strawn, August 16, 1997

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Transcript of an interview with Harry C. Strawn, Army Air Forces veteran (31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force; and 413th Fighter Group, 14th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Appendix includes the introduction to "In a now forgotten sky: the 31st fighter group in WW2" by Dennis C. Kucera.
Date: August 16, 1997
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Strawn, Harry C., 1918-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Edra C. Bogle, April 16, 1997

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Interview with Edra C. Bogle, English professor and LGBT activist, about her experiences in the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas and her views on women's studies in general.
Date: April 16, 1997
Creator: Cook, Charles & Bogle, Edra C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Edra C. Bogle, April 16, 1997

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Interview with Dr. Edra C. Bogle, a university professor, concerning her experiences in the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Early interest in women writers; experiences concerning job discrimination; activities with National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1970s; introduction of women authors into her literature courses; activities with the Dallas Gay Political Alliance in 1970s; role in establishment of Gay and Lesbian Association of Denton (Texas) in 1970s; public acknowledgment of being a lesbian, 1978; personal and professional conflict with James W. Lee, chair of the UNT English Department; early stages of the Women's Studies Program, 1988; early courses about women in course offerings of the English Department; her appointment as coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, 1992; coordination of course offerings in women's studies; establishment of a specific course in women's studies, 1994; relationship of gay and multicultural issues to women's studies; views on integrating women's issues into regular survey courses; unsuccessful attempt to establish a women's center; her resignation as coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, 1994, and her replacement by Barbara Rodman; her overall relations with Nora Kizer Bell, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; her relationship with Barbara …
Date: April 16, 1997
Creator: Cook, Charles & Bogle, Edra C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Luther G. Strange, October 16, 1996

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Interview with Luther Strange, an Army Air Corps veteran, concerning his experiences at Hickam Field with the Headquarters Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: October 16, 1996
Creator: Blanchette, Scott & Strange, Luther G., 1913-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with A. C. Tipton, December 16, 1995, No. 2

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Interview with A.C. Tipton, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the light cruiser USS Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 16, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tipton, A. C.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Raymond D. Strong, December 16, 1995

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Interview with Raymond Strong, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences at Ford Island Naval Air Station with Base Communications during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: December 16, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Strong, Raymond D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library