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Oral History Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, March 14, 2013

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Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world and her post-Air Force career, her involvement in the Grace After Fire program for assisting female veterans, problems facing female veterans and lack of support, the 2014 lifting of the combat ban on women in the US armed forces, the WASPs, and advice for servicewomen. In appendix is a summary of Lachance-Skier's USAF career, three photos of her Meritorious Service Medal certificates, and a Grace After Fire booklet.
Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Lachance-Skier, Lisa Jane
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
W.A.S.P. Golden Anniversary Reunion 1942-1992 (open access)

W.A.S.P. Golden Anniversary Reunion 1942-1992

Pamphlet welcoming WASP to the 1992 San Antonio Reunion with letters and a schedule of events.
Date: 1992
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Citizens should focus energy on more substantive problems] (open access)

[Clipping: Citizens should focus energy on more substantive problems]

Newspaper clipping of an opinion piece discussing the debate in San Antonio over whether the VIA Metropolitan Authority should attend a transportation conference in Tempe, Arizona.
Date: January 9, 1991
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Council [sc]raps VIA meeting] (open access)

[Clipping: Council [sc]raps VIA meeting]

Newspaper clippings of the article, "Council [sc]raps VIA meeting" in the San Antonio Express-News discussing a non-binding resolution passed by the San Antonio City Council urging VIA staffers not to attend a training conference in Tempe, Arizona because of Arizona's vote against a Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The article also states the purpose and costs of attending the conference.
Date: January 4, 1991
Creator: Gonzalez, Susie Phillips
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Arthur M. Alpert to Dan Oppenheimer, January 29, 1964] (open access)

[Letter from Arthur M. Alpert to Dan Oppenheimer, January 29, 1964]

Letter from Arthur M. Alpert to Dan Oppenheimer discussing about pending sale of a land and answering latter's queries on West Texas operations.
Date: January 29, 1964
Creator: Alpert, Arthur M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dirigible Headlight (open access)

Dirigible Headlight

Patent for rotating combination lamp and spindle.
Date: February 6, 1917
Creator: Wogenstahl, Leo J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History