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Notes and Documents, Summer 2001 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2001

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Carolyn Thomas Foreman, who was inducted into the annual Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. The document lists the projects she created, such as the Indian-Pioneer History Project, as well as the books and articles she published.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Armstrong, Connie G.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2001-02 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2001-02

Notes and Documents column including a document honoring Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., who was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2001. It also includes a document about a letter Woodie Guthrie wrote to his first niece, Mary Ann Guthrie, which was donated and included.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Armstrong, Connie G. & Blochowiak, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma Republican: Dennis Thomas Flynn and His Letters to William Howard Taft (open access)

Oklahoma Republican: Dennis Thomas Flynn and His Letters to William Howard Taft

Article describes the life and career of Oklahoma's first Republican national committeeman, Dennis T. Flynn, through examination of his friendship and correspondence with President William Howard Taft. Leonard C. Schlup offers recognition of the Oklahoma City lawyer, congressman, and company director as a person as well as a politician.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Schlup, Leonard C.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Reminiscences of a Redleg: An Oklahoma Artilleryman in the Korean War (open access)

Reminiscences of a Redleg: An Oklahoma Artilleryman in the Korean War

Article describes the experiences of the author, Denzil D. Garrison, during his service in the Forty-fifth Infantry Division during the Korean War. Garrison provides historical context and also recounts personal stories, which vary from humorous to death-defying.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Garrison, Denzil D.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"She Has Surely Done Her Share": Miss Bessie Huff and the Muskogee Junior College (open access)

"She Has Surely Done Her Share": Miss Bessie Huff and the Muskogee Junior College

Article details the life and career of Bessie Huff, English and journalism instructor and dean at Muskogee Junior College, and pays tribute to her dedication to the people she taught and their education through stories told by former students.
Date: Winter 2001
Creator: Eversole, Dana
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home (open access)

There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home

Article provides historical context for the creation of the Tulsa Boys' Home in 1918 for troubled and orphaned boys. Michael Lail describes the institutions that founded the home, namely the Tulsa Rotary Club and the First Presbyterian Church, and the growth and movement of The Home itself over the years.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Lail, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Ultimate Patriots?: Oklahoma Women of the Ku Klux Klan (open access)

The Ultimate Patriots?: Oklahoma Women of the Ku Klux Klan

Article describes the activities and formation of the all-female branch of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Suzzane H. Schrems describes the ritualistic appeal of the organization to ultraconservative women of this time period and the eventual decline of the Oklahoma WKKK by 1928.
Date: Summer 2001
Creator: Schrems, Suzanne H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Will Rogers Field: The Life and Death of a World War II Airbase (open access)

Will Rogers Field: The Life and Death of a World War II Airbase

Article tells the story of the transformation of the Oklahoma City municipal airport into the airbase that would become the largest light bomber training base in the country, Will Rogers Field. Keith Tolman discusses the decline of the base with the end of World War II and what remains of its impact.
Date: Spring 2001
Creator: Tolman, Keith
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History