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Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.
Date:
March 14, 2003
Creator:
Alviar, Abelino
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.
Date:
March 14, 2003
Creator:
Alviar, Abelino
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pete Craig, July 10, 2002
Interview with Pete Craig, a veteran of the U.S. Army who served in the Pacific Theatre during World War II from Houston, Texas. Craig describes his time as a Private 1st Class in the Infantry, as well as his experiences in basic training and the places he visited throughout the United States. Included at the end of the transcript is a written summarization by the interviewer, Colby Burmaster, which was provided with the two audiotapes of the interview.
Date:
April 26, 2003
Creator:
Burmaster, Colby & Craig, Pete
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston - August 17, 2003]
Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to congratulate him for receiving a 2003 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a fifteen hundred dollar award with no restrictions as to its use. A second letter is included that reads as a press release for the award, with mention of other award winners and the award history.
Date:
August 17, 2003
Creator:
Cisneros, Sandra
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003
Interview with David Lee "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, Texas, a veteran from the United States Navy during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences while in the Navy, including memories of pre-war flight training in Florida, the Flying Tigers, and the Salween River Gorge attack.
Date:
September 20, 2003
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Hill, David Lee
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003
Interview with David Lee "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, Texas, a veteran from the United States Navy during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences while in the Navy, including memories of pre-war flight training in Florida, the Flying Tigers, and the Salween River Gorge attack. There is a photograph and a short biography of Hill after the interview transcription.
Date:
September 20, 2003
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Hill, David Lee
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Karen DeVinney to Sandra Mayo - January 31, 2003]
Letter from Karen DeVinney of the University of North Texas Press to Sandra Mayo, director of the Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies at Southwest Texas State University. In trying to publish a collection of plays by Sterling Houston, Mayo has submitted the work-in-progress to DeVinney and an anonymous reader. The reader's report is included after the letter, with the conclusion that the publication will be much richer with a few revisions. DeVinney hopes Mayo can make the revisions and resubmit.
Date:
January 31, 2003
Creator:
DeVinney, Karen
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Edward D. Garza to Sterling Houston - August 6, 2003]
Letter from Edward D. Garza, mayor of the city of San Antonio, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. He writes to invite him to join the Cultural Collaborative Steering Committee, a group composed of leaders in the arts community. The members, chosen from the private and public sector, would have a say in the growth and support of San Antonio's cultural sector.
Date:
August 6, 2003
Creator:
Garza, Edward D.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[E-Mail from Craig Gingrich-Philbrook to Paul Bonin-Rodriguez - February 16, 2003]
E-Mail from Craig Gingrich-Philbrook to Paul Bonin-Rodriguez. He fondly writes to Paul informing him that he has just watched his play, Memory's Caretaker, on a tape that Paul sent. He proposes that the play be used as part of a printed forum discussion in Text and Performance Quarterly (TPQ), a scholarly journal. He asks Paul if he would be interested in participating and thanks him for sharing his work with him.
Date:
February 16, 2003
Creator:
Gingrich-Philbrook, Craig
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Marcus Goodyear to Sterling Houston - July 18, 2003]
Letter from Marcus Goodyear, English teacher at Sandra Day O'Connor High School, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes to send word of a student literary magazine called Limestone. At the bottom of the letter, he has hand-written a personal note to Sterling thanking him for a writing workshop.
Date:
July 18, 2003
Creator:
Goodyear, Marcus
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston - September 5, 2003]
Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes sending him a list of information regarding medication and treatment of the HIV virus. His last item on the list is the contact information of a physician, Dr. Luis Alfredo Cisneros.
Date:
September 5, 2003
Creator:
Harford, Paul
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Louis Belk, April 22, 2003
Interview with Louis Belk, a B-17 Waist Gunner who served with the U.S. Army Air Corps (Air Force) in World War II from San Antonio, Texas. Belk describes his time training in Texas and experiences serving in England. He also talks about what it was like returning home to the United States from the war.
Date:
April 22, 2003
Creator:
Heath, Amanda & Belk, Louis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Black & Blue: Four Hundred Years of Struggle and Transcendence
This manuscript by Sterling Houston is a short play about the struggles and triumphs of African-Americans in the United States and, in particular, Texas over a period of four hundred years. The play features writing by Sterling Houston interwoven with both live and and recorded musical performances, poetic excerpts, and direct quotations from legal documents and decrees.
Date:
2003~
Creator:
Houston, Sterling
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Aletha Barsanti, January 17, 2003
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Interview with Aletha Barsanti regarding her experiences as the wife of U. S. Army General Olinto Barsanti. They married in 1942. She remembers their courtship in San Antonio; their assignments in Europe, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; raising their children; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; and his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died in May 1973.
Date:
January 17, 2003
Creator:
Lane, Peter B. & Barsanti, Aletha
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Card from Dan H. Laurence to Sterling Houston - October 2003]
Greeting card from Dan H. Laurence to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He mentions a reunion with old friends and a stage performance where he received a standing ovation. The front of the card has been printed with a view of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre stage, empty and with closed curtains.
Date:
October 2003
Creator:
Laurence, Dan H.
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Kenneth Mayo, April 29, 2002
Interview with Kenneth Mayo, a supply manager in the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. He answers questions about his military service and his experiences abroad.
Date:
December 17, 2003
Creator:
Mayo, Aimee & Mayo, Kenneth
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House Photograph #1]
Photograph of the Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House, in San Antonio, Texas.
Date:
January 27, 2003
Creator:
Noe, Russell
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House Photograph #2]
Photograph of the Anna Barbara and Johann Engelbert Heidgen House, in San Antonio, Texas.
Date:
January 2003
Creator:
Noe, Russell
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Female pilots were World War II's 'best-kept secret']
Newspaper clipping explaining the experiences of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) and how applicants were selected and trained to serve the in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. A photograph of former WASP member, Ann Holaday is displayed on this clipping.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Rivas, Lisa Harrison
Object Type:
Clipping
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Fourth Write (San Antonio, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 2003
Student magazine from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes works by journalism students along with advertising.
Date:
April 11, 2003
Creator:
San Antonio College
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, January 24, 2003
Weekly student newspaper from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 24, 2003
Creator:
San Antonio College
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 2003
Weekly student newspaper from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 31, 2003
Creator:
San Antonio College
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 2003
Weekly student newspaper from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.
Date:
February 7, 2003
Creator:
San Antonio College
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 2003
Weekly student newspaper from San Antonio College in San Antonio, Texas that includes campus news along with advertising.
Date:
February 14, 2003
Creator:
San Antonio College
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History