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[TBAAL "Gospel Gurls" concert audio tape] transcript

[TBAAL "Gospel Gurls" concert audio tape]

Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the "Gospel Gurls" live performance over the weekend of April 8-9th, 2000 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The tape includes six female vocalists performing jazz, gospel and spiritual medleys.
Date: April 2000
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with John H. Camp, April 8, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with John H. Camp, April 8, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John H. (Jack) Camp. Camp grew up in New Orleans and joined the Navy in August, 1943. Upon completion of training, Camp was selected for Hospital Corpsman school. In ealry 1945, Camp was ordered to go to Guam and work the in Fleet Hospital 103. He recalls receiving patients from the battle at Okinawa. In May, Camp was transferred to the USS South Dakota (BB-57). He was aboard when the task force the South Dakota was attached to attacked the Japanese home islands. Camp shares excerpts from a diary he kept while aboard the ship. At teh surrender ceremony, Camp was among a group of medical personnel that went ashore to a prisoner of war camp to bring former POWs back to the USS Benevolence (AH-13) treatment. Camp visited several POW camps before leaving Tokyo Bay. He returned aboard ship to the US in October, 1945.
Date: April 8, 2000
Creator: Camp, John H
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ensemble: 2000-04-14 - Les Petits Violons

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music.
Date: April 14, 2000
Creator: Les Petits Violons
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2000-04-17 – Todd W. Markey, double bass

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: April 17, 2000
Creator: Markey, Todd W.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2000-04-17 - Les Petits Violons

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: April 17, 2000
Creator: Les Petits Violons
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Edward Hyak, April 17, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with Edward Hyak, April 17, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Edward Hyak. Hyak joined the Army Air Corps in August 1940 and received clerical training at Fort Logan. He received glider pilot training in Roswell. Upon completion, he was assigned to the 477th Bomb Group, where he served as a technical clerk assisting the first sergeant. In November 1942 he went to England, where he kept maintenance records and ran troubleshooting for the bomb group as an engineer clerk specialist. He recalls one plane, nicknamed Fuddy Duddy, which flew 90 missions before finally being decommissioned. On D-Day he witnessed thousands of American planes overhead, which came as a total surprise to him. While in England he met his brother and cousin at the Imperial Hotel. Hyak returned home in July 1945 and was discharged. He joined the inactive reserves and was called to Nevada to participate in nuclear bomb experiments in 1950. He recalls being knocked down by the blast from his post in a trench. He attributes numerous lifelong ailments and disabilities to his exposure to radioactivity, including blindness. Hyak was discharged a second time in September 1952.
Date: April 17, 2000
Creator: Hyak, Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with W. G. (Bill) Campbell, April 21, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with W. G. (Bill) Campbell, April 21, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with W. G. (Bill) Campbell. Campbell grew up in Texas, attended Texas A&M, and married in 1939 before joining the Army in 1943. After training, he went to Australia, Dutch New Guinea, Palu, Leyte, and Mindanao. He describes riding in amphibious vehicles and interacting with the natives. He discusses various illnesses he had during the war and his interactions with his brother, an engineer. He also describes surveying work in some detail. After the war, Campbell eventually became a public school teacher.
Date: April 21, 2000
Creator: Campbell, W. G. (Bill)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ensemble: 2000-04-22 - African Percussion Ensemble

An African percussion concert performed at the UNT College of Music WInspear Hall.
Date: April 22, 2000
Creator: African Percussion Ensemble
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2000-04-24 – Brendan Kierman, trumpet

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: April 24, 2000
Creator: Kierman, Brendan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doctoral Recital: 2000-04-24 – Songyoung Kim, violin

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: April 24, 2000
Creator: Kim, Songyoung
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eleanor Brown, April 24, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with Eleanor Brown, April 24, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Eleanor Brown. From early 1942 through 1944, Brown served as a general mechanics helper at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, and had completed flight training. In April, she joined the Women’s Air Service Pilots (WASPs) in Sweetwater, Texas. Brown graduated, though WASP was disbanded in December of that same year. She returned to Kelly Field and continued to work as the first woman mechanic at the Air Force Base.
Date: April 24, 2000
Creator: Brown, Eleanor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ethel Blaine, April 24, 2000 transcript

Oral History Interview with Ethel Blaine, April 24, 2000

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ethel ""Sally"" Blaine Millett. Millett grew up in Missouri and went to nurses training in San Diego, California. She volunteered for the Philippines in 1941. She witnessed the bombing at Clark Field. She took care of the soldiers wounded by Japanese strafing. When the bombing got too bad, the nurses left Statsenberg for Manila. Because of continued Japanese bombing all over the Philippines, the nurses had to keep moving as the hospitals moved. She describes having malaria and then having to evacuate from Bataan to Corregidor. Then they went to Mindanao where they were formally captured by the Japanese. They were moved to Davao and then to Santo Tomas. She describes losing her possessions. She describes life in the internment camp: the food, the work required, the sanitary conditions, the self-government, the birthrate, and the entertainment. Millett has to have an operation while at Santo Tomas. She also describes executions. Finally, the American soldiers arrived, and she took a plane home in February 1945. Her brother met her in San Francisco.
Date: April 24, 2000
Creator: Millett, Ethel Blaine
System: The Portal to Texas History
LJT's Texas Music Festival, April 2001, #13 Live transcript

LJT's Texas Music Festival, April 2001, #13 Live

Audio recording of music recorded live at Larry Joe Taylor's 13th Annual Texas Music Festival and Chili Cook-off.
Date: April 2001
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gene Moody, April 1, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Gene Moody, April 1, 2001

Interview with Gene Moody, a staff sergeant in charge of medical dispensary during the Korean War. He answers questions about his military service and his experiences abroad.
Date: April 1, 2001
Creator: Reitmeier, Sara & Moody, Gene
System: The Portal to Texas History

Student Recital: 2001-04-03 -- Lauren Elledge, viola

Student recital at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Date: April 3, 2001
Creator: Elledge, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Spears, April 5, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with James Spears, April 5, 2001

Interview with James Spears, an ammunition worker on the home front during WWII. He describes the war as he saw it from the home front.
Date: April 5, 2001
Creator: Brosh, Kate & Spears, James
System: The Portal to Texas History

Doctoral Recital: 2001-04-09 – Amy Christine Ctibor, flute

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date: April 9, 2001
Creator: Ctibor, Amy Christine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with E. G. Warren, April 10, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with E. G. Warren, April 10, 2001

Interview with Warren, E.G., an electrician in the US Navy during WWII. He describes volunteering to join the military and life during his service.
Date: April 10, 2001
Creator: York, Ann Marie & Warren, E. G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Luther Victory, April 10, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Luther Victory, April 10, 2001

Interview with Luther Victory, an aerial gunner and POW for the US Air Force during WWII. He describes life in the military and being captured by the Germans.
Date: April 10, 2001
Creator: Singh, Bobby & Victory, Luther
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Brinton Cate, April 11, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Brinton Cate, April 11, 2001

Interview with Brinton Cate, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who served in World War II from Jackson, Michigan. Cate describes his time as a corporal with the military police and how he was on Iwo Jima when the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as seeing the aftermath at Nagasaki.
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Campbell, Justin L. & Cate, Brinton
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with H. James Avery, April 11, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with H. James Avery, April 11, 2001

Transcript of an oral interview with James Avery. Mr Avery was a junior at the University of Illinois when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He signed up with the Army Air Corps since they would let him finish his degree before they would take him. However, the Army Air Corps was not able to honor its commitment since they needed pilots badly. In March 1943, they called him up and sent him to Lackland Air Base for the preflight program. From there, Avery went to Fort Stockton where he learned to fly in a Fairchild PT-19 and then to Goodfellow Field in San Angelo to learn to fly a BT-13. After two months of basic training, he went to Reese Air Base in Lubbock to train in the AT-17 and got his wings there in January 1944. Avery wanted to fly the B-26 and he got his wish; reporting first to Del Rio and then to Barksdale Field where he got his crew assigned. There were six of them in the crew. After about three months at Barksdale, they went to Savannah, Georgia to pick up a brand new airplane. However, they had to wait six weeks for their ship; Martin …
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Avery, H. James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with J. O. Horn, April 11, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with J. O. Horn, April 11, 2001

Interview with Master Sergeant J. O. Horn, a veteran of World War II in the Pacific Theater. Horn answers questions and goes into great detail about his training and experience overseas including living conditions during his time on Saipan. Horn also discusses his like back home once he was discharged from the service after the war was over.
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: York, Ann Marie & Horn, J. O.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Eberle, April 11, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with John Eberle, April 11, 2001

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Eberle. Born in 1921, he enlisted in the Navy in 1939. He was assigned to Torpedo Squadron VT-6 of the Enterprise Air Group. He describes events on the USS Enterprise (CV-6) while at sea during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He shares an anecdote about the remains of Admiral Kidd. He relates stories about the Battle of Midway; escorting to the USS Hornet (CV-8) in conjunction with the Doolittle Raid; the sinking of the USS Wasp (CV-7); the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands and the loss of the USS Hornet; and experiencing a typhoon while on an aircraft carrier. He also shares stories about being an aircraft maintenance officer in San Diego, California. He retired from the Navy Reserve in 1976.
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Eberle, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with T. C. Hsu, April 11, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with T. C. Hsu, April 11, 2001

Interview with Dr. Tao-Chiuh Hsu, beginning with the doctor recounting his early career in the United States as a graduate student at the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Texas, Medical Branch in Galveston. He shares his story about how he stumbled upon the hypotonic solution to separate chromosomes for deeper analysis of genes. Dr. Hsu explains his reasons for leaving the Medical Branch and joining M. D. Anderson for better laboratory and teaching opportunities. He shares an anecdote about the original main building of the institution. The interview explores Dr. Hsu’s promotions and positions held within the institution and touches on his relationships and collaborative work with Drs. R. Lee Clark, Charles M. Pomerat, Felix Haas, and Daniel Billen. Dr. Hsu shares his cultural experiences in terms of language barriers, naturalization and family immigration process. The interview concludes with Dr. Hsu answering questions about colleagues who worked with him in his lab over the years.
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Hsu, T. C. (Tao-Chiuh); Olson, James Stuart & Brunet, Lesley Williams
System: The Portal to Texas History