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Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 27, 1967 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. R. Schwartz, November 27, 1967

Interview with A. R. Schwartz, an attorney and a Democratic member of the Texas Senate from Galveston. He discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature.
Date: November 27, 1967
Creator: Calvert, Robert, 1922- & Schwartz, Aaron Robert, 1926-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Roy Allen, November 4, 1970 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Roy Allen, November 4, 1970

Interview with Roy Allen, an Army Air Corps WWII veteran and POW from Denton, Texas. Allen served during the invasion of the Philippines in December 1941, after which he fought with Filipino guerrillas until his capture by Japanese forces in mid-1942. He was interned at the Del Monte Plantation, Mindanao, and later at Yokkaichi, Japan.
Date: November 4, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Robert & Allen, Roy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank Fujita, November 9, 1970 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank Fujita, November 9, 1970

Interview with Frank Fujita, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Abilene, Texas. Fujita recounts his experiences as a captured member of 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "the Lost Battalion"), including: joining the Guard and deploying to East Asia; diversion to Brisbane and assignment to Malang, Java; repelling a Japanese infantry assault; attempted evasion of Japanese forces before being captured; and internment and labor at Surabaja, Bicycle Camp in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Nagasaki, and Omori Camp in Tokyo. Fujita recorded his POW experiences in an encrypted diary.
Date: November 9, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Fujita Jr., Frank
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Burlage, November 18, 1970 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Burlage, November 18, 1970

Interview with George Burlage, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Visalia, California. Burlage was stationed in the Philippines before the war and fought at Corregidor in 1942 before his capture by the Japanese, after which he was interned at Camp Cabanatuan #3 in Central Luzon, Las Pinas airfield near Manila, and Moji, Japan.
Date: November 18, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Burlage, George
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Joel K. Walker, November 11, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Joel K. Walker, November 11, 1971

Interview with Joel Walker, an employee of the Home Owners' Loan Association from Marietta, Oklahoma. Walker worked for the HOLA in Dallas during the Great Depression; he discusses working at a bank in Roswell, New Mexico, unemployment, hiring with HOLA in Dallas, how the Association operated, loan terms, mortgages, and foreclosures.
Date: November 11, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Walker, Joel K.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Loren H. Brantley, November 19, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Loren H. Brantley, November 19, 1971

Interview with Loren Brantley, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Daingerfield, Texas. Brantley discusses being stationed in Shanghai before the war, his experience in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked on December 8th, the Battle of Corregidor, and his internments at Bilibid Prison, Cabanatuan, and a coal mine near Nagasaki.
Date: November 19, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Brantley, Loren H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. W. Salmon, November 19, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with W. W. Salmon, November 19, 1971

Interview with W. W. Salmon, an employee of the Home Owners' Loan Association from Denton, Texas, and Martin Edwards, also an HOLA employee, from South Carolina. Salmon and Edwards worked in the HOLA Dallas Regional Office during the Great Depression. They discuss the effect of the depression on Dallas, their opinions of Franklin Roosevelt, the beginnings of the HOLA, its operations and management, and their opinions on its impact.
Date: November 19, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Salmon, W. W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank A. Hoke, November 24, 1971 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank A. Hoke, November 24, 1971

Interview with Frank A. Hoke, banker and attorney. The interview includes Hoke's personal experiences about being an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Hoke talks about mortgage buying, loan amortization, insurance, home improvements, accounting procedures, politics and patronage, taxes and appraising, foreclosures, and loan servicing.
Date: November 24, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hoke, Frank A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Charley L. Pryor, 1972-1973 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Charley L. Pryor, 1972-1973

Interview with Charley L. Pryor, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Lubbock, Texas, who survived the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30). Pryor discusses the sinking of the Houston, his capture, experiences in imprisonment at Serang, Java, experiences at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and Changi Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, American air raids, and liberation.
Date: 1972-11/1973-02
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pryor, Charley L.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Louis B. Read, November 3, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Louis B. Read, November 3, 1972

Interview conducted in 1972 for the World War II Prisoners of War Oral History Project with Louis B. Read, a businessman, an Army veteran, and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II.
Date: November 3, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Read, Louis B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, November 27, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with O. H. "Ike" Harris, November 27, 1972

Interview with Senator O. H. "Ike" Harris, a Republican Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Harris discusses the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, including: the issue of state funding of primaries; Governor Preston Smith's actions on spending; the appointment of Larry Teaver to head of the State Insurance Commission; the calling of the fourth special session; insurance companies and their influence; discrimination in insurance policies; competitive rate-making legislation and opposition to it; and the confirmation of Bob Bullock as Secretary of State.
Date: November 27, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harris, Ike, 1932-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James W. Stroud, November 28, 1972 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James W. Stroud, November 28, 1972

Interview with Representative Jim Stroud, a Democratic Texas state legislator from Dallas, Texas. Stroud discusses the second, third, and fourth special sessions of the 62nd Legislature, including: legislation considered in the second session; the election of a House Speaker, and Jim Nugent and DeWitt Hale's aspirations to the post; the "Dirty Thirty" and lobbyists; the election of Rayford Price; the state budget; the insurance industry and related legislation. Also included is a newspaper clipping of Stroud's obituary.
Date: November 28, 1972
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stroud, James W.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George P. Lawley, November 3, 1973 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George P. Lawley, November 3, 1973

Interview with George P. Lawley, an Army WWII veteran and POW from Odessa, Texas. Lawley discusses his time with the so-called "Lost Battalion" on Java and his experiences as a Japanese prisoner-of-war, including: joining the National Guard in 1940 and training, deployment for East Asia with 2nd Battallion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment; diversion to Java at the start of the war; the Japanese attack and his unit's capture; and his experiences in internment and labor at Tanjong Priok in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Thanbyuzayat and several camps on the Burma Railway, and near Nagasaki.
Date: November 3, 1973
Creator: Teague, William J. & Lawley, George P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Wood, November 7, 1973 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Wood, November 7, 1973

Interview with George Wood, a former officer of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Bryan, Texas. Wood discusses his time in the CCC in the 1930s, including: his origins and education; the effects of the Depression; his entry into the CCC; the varying projects he worked; relations with other government agencies; the character of CCC workers; organization of camps; crime in the CCC; racial segregation; and relations with the Army.
Date: November 7, 1973
Creator: Galyon, Charlene O. & Wood, George
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred H. Minor, November 15, 1973 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fred H. Minor, November 15, 1973

Interview with Fred H. Minor, an attorney, a Democrat, and a former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He discusses his experiences while serving in the Texas Legislature during the 1930s, comments upon Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, and Miriam and James Ferguson, and his talks about his term as speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Date: November 15, 1973
Creator: Jagoe, Katherine Pearson & Minor, Frederick Hawthorne, 1888-1976
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Mary Kay Ash, November 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Mary Kay Ash, November 1974

Interview with cosmetics entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash. The interview includes Ash's personal experiences about her early sales career and its impact upon her future business philosophy, methods, and the success of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Ash talks about planning prior to launching the company, problems and solutions in the beginning, early legal problems with competitors, her concern for women's opportunities, development and growth of sales, the role of her children in the company, methods of recruiting, training, and attitude building, marketing and sales techniques, incentive plans, sales territories, pricing, the party plan, employee promotion, her views on successful managerial traits and on the motivational differences between men and women, applying the Golden Rule toward employees and customers, her attitudes and philosophy toward employee relations, using her intuition in decision making, and reasons for the growth of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
Date: November 1974
Creator: Caruth, Donald L. & Ash, Mary Kay
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Richard Rogers, November 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interviews with Richard Rogers, November 1974

Interview with Richard Rogers, president of Mary Kay Cosmetics. The interview includes Rogers' personal experiences about forming a company. Rogers talks about his mother's (Mary Kay) selling career and its impact on her own company, relations with sales personnel, marketing and sales motivation, the wig business, pricing, the dual management system, legal aspects and government regulations, his views on government regulation, self-regulation, consumerism, product quality, reasons for going public with stock, financing methods, contract and private labeling, budgeting, expansion, reasons for the success of Mary Kay Cosmetics, specialization vs. diversification, building a management team, and his views on motivational differences between men and women.
Date: November 1974
Creator: Caruth, Donald L. & Rogers, Richard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Taylor, 1974-1975 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Taylor, 1974-1975

Interview with Robert Taylor, Protestant chaplain for the U.S. Army and survivor of the Bataan campaign. The interview includes Taylor's personal experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Taylor talks about the Fall of Bataan and his capture, Bilibid Prison in Manila, American air raids in Manila, hell ship to Japan, Fukuoka Prison Camp, and liberation by Soviet troops.
Date: November 2, 1974
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Taylor, Robert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with R. F. Button, November 12, 1974 (open access)

Oral History Interview with R. F. Button, November 12, 1974

Interview with Red Button concerning his experiences as a former Denton County, Texas, whiskey maker during the prohibition era.
Date: November 12, 1974
Creator: Swenson, John & Button, Red F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Rousseau, November 22, 1976 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fred Rousseau, November 22, 1976

Interview with Army Air Corps veteran Fred Rousseau. The interview includes Rousseau's personal experiences at Hickam Field with the Base Fire Department during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: November 22, 1976
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Rousseau, Fred
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James F. White, November 10, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James F. White, November 10, 1977

Interview with Dr. James F. White, minister at the Perkins School of Theology and leader of the Citizens Organization for a Sound Trinity (COST) group, which was in opposition to the Trinity Barge Canal construction project. White provides details about newspaper coverage of the issue, the group's involvement in politics, and his views of other political issues.
Date: November 10, 1977
Creator: Smallwood, J. B. & White, James F.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, November 14, 1977 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fred Agnich, November 14, 1977

Interview with Fred Agnich, businessman and member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas, Republican. The interview includes Agnich's personal views concerning the development of water resources in Texas.
Date: November 14, 1977
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Agnich, Fred
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bill Clayton, November 16, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bill Clayton, November 16, 1978

Interview with Bill Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, concerning his recollections and experiences during the second special session of the 65th legislature. He discusses property tax, sales tax, the position of state governments, the opinions of other politicians at the session, and tax reform.
Date: November 16, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Clayton, Billy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, November 17, 1978 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Walter H. Hodgson, November 17, 1978

Interview with Walter Hodgson, a retired university professor-administrator and former dean of the North Texas State University School of Music, concerning his experiences as dean of NTSU School of Music. Hodgson discusses his early years at NTSU, the development of the jazz program, and his appointment as dean. He also comments on the following people: Silvio Scionti, Mary McCormic, George Morey, Frank McKinley, Wilfred Bain, Lloyd Hibberd, Helen Hewitt, Harry Parshall, Frank Mainous, Maurice McAdow, Ralph Daniel, Walter Robert, Floyd Graham, and John Haynie.
Date: November 17, 1978
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Myers, Marceau & Hodgson, W. H. (Walter H.)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library