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Lwv Bulletin, December, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Dec 1999

Lwv Bulletin, December, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


Lwv Bulletin, November, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Nov 1999

Lwv Bulletin, November, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


Lwv Bulletin, October, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Oct 1999

Lwv Bulletin, October, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


Lwv Bulletin, September, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Sep 1999

Lwv Bulletin, September, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


The Student Handbook Of Marshall University, 1999-2000, Marshall University Aug 1999

The Student Handbook Of Marshall University, 1999-2000, Marshall University

Marshall University Student Handbook

No abstract provided.


Marshall Magazine Summer 1999, Marshall University Jul 1999

Marshall Magazine Summer 1999, Marshall University

Marshall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Lwv Bulletin, May, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area May 1999

Lwv Bulletin, May, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


Marshall Magazine Spring 1999, Marshall University Apr 1999

Marshall Magazine Spring 1999, Marshall University

Marshall Magazine

No abstract provided.


Lwv Bulletin, March, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Mar 1999

Lwv Bulletin, March, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


Lwv Bulletin, February, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Feb 1999

Lwv Bulletin, February, 1999, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 1990-1999

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.


Oral History Interview: Jeff E. Thomas, Jeff E. Thomas Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Jeff E. Thomas, Jeff E. Thomas

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Jeff E. Thomas discusses: his personal history; his family (some of whom worked in coal mines, which he discusses in great detail); his education (including at West Virginia Tech); segregation; church and religion; labor unions and strikes; his childhood and childhood activities; vacations (including camping trips); his dad forming a non-union mining coal company; wanting to be a funeral director and his job in the B.C. Hooper Funeral Home and other funeral homes; his Appalachian identity as well as Appalachian culture and Appalachian stereotypes; and other topics.


Oral History Interview: Beatrice M. Adkins, Beatrice M. Adkins Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Beatrice M. Adkins, Beatrice M. Adkins

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Beatrice Adkins was a lifelong resident of Kanawha County (WV). She spent most of her childhood living in a coal town (Big Chimney), where her father and brother worked as loggers for the company. When her father died, she left school at age 14 and joined the older of the 12 children in the family to work. She was the only member of the family to attend school. Most of her work experience is with two meat packing companies, P.E. Holtz and Armor, neither of which remained …


Oral History Interview: Jean Dolan Vaeley, Jean Dolan Vaeley Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Jean Dolan Vaeley, Jean Dolan Vaeley

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. In her life, Jean Dolan Vaeley has been a secretary and a bank president, the Administrative Aide to the State Highway Commissioner, and president of Ashland Coal. She discusses: her personal history; very detailed information about her family; farming and farm life; neighbors; renting a house from a black family; the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company; buying a house; a short discussion of the Jackson County Junior Fair; her education and her views on education; dairy farming; her employment history (including at Charleston National Bank, the Kaiser Aluminum Plant, …


Oral History Interview: Numa Dale Milles, Numa Dale Milles Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Numa Dale Milles, Numa Dale Milles

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. The name of the interviewer is not given, but might be John Mills. This interview was conducted on December 30, 1999 with Numa Dale Mills in his home in Hinton, West Virginia. Mr. Mills, age 79, is a lifelong resident of WV with some brief periods spent in other states while coal mining work was done. Mr. Mills speaks of some life adventures, trials in the mines, and the ethnography of the coal fields.


Oral History Interview: C. Keith Coffman, C. Keith Coffman Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: C. Keith Coffman, C. Keith Coffman

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. In this interview, C. Keith Coffman describes numerous anecdotes about his family, his experiences growing up on a farm, and his service in World War II and the Air Force.


Oral History Interview: Brad Witt, Brad Witt Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Brad Witt, Brad Witt

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This is the story of a forty-three year old gay white male living in Charleston, West Virginia. Main topics discussed deal with experimental sex with other males beginning in early adolescence. A description of the disco era of the seventies in southern West Virginia, his experiences living in other cities such as Cleveland and Boston. The narration follows the chronology of his life from elementary school through present. Transcripts are available in the Special Collections Department of the James E. Morrow Library.


Oral History Interview: Louise Anderson, Louise Anderson Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Louise Anderson, Louise Anderson

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Louise Anderson taught at Washington High School, Cedar Grove High School, and East Bank. One of the main topics of this interview is her family, which she discusses in detail throughout the interview; this includes her immediate family, grandparents and relatives, her children, and her husband (his death is discussed as well). Another topic is her education, both grade school and college, and teachers she admired. Some of the schools she attended were Washington High School (an African-American school …


Oral History Interview: E. Jane Dillard, E. Jane Dillard Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: E. Jane Dillard, E. Jane Dillard

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. E. Jane Dillard gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview. She discusses her relatives, children and grandchildren, but two family members are the main focus of discussion: her father and her husband. Her father was a coal miner and lived with a white family for a while; she tells us about her relationship with him, as well as his failing health and his death. Her husband is the other main family member discussed, and she tells us …


Oral History Interview: Ottrus Chatman, Ottrus Chatman Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Ottrus Chatman, Ottrus Chatman

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Ottrus Chatman began teaching as a substitute teacher at Simmons High School at Montgomery, WV. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including her marriages and husbands and one husband's death, her relationship with her mother, the Burke-Wheeler Family Reunion (Burke was her maiden name and the reunion took place in Washington, D.C.), and information about her relationship with one of her husbands (including their history and how they met). She tells us about childhood …


Oral History Interview: Eunice Burrell Fleming, Eunice Burrell Fleming Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Eunice Burrell Fleming, Eunice Burrell Fleming

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Eunice Burrell Fleming graduated high school at age 15 and began teaching when she was 19 at Du Bois High School in Mount Hope (WV). She discusses her family throughout the interview, including her relatives, her husband and her marriage, her children, and the mixed ethnicity of her family. Her childhood is another topic; she tells of family life during that time as well as life and race relations in Mount Hope, childhood social events, Christmas, and a fire that …


Oral History Interview: Willie Hise, Willie Hise Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Willie Hise, Willie Hise

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Willie Hise began teaching in Aracoma High School in West Virginia during the 1940s. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including her father (who was a miner and a deacon of a Baptist church), her children (including a son who participated in ROTC), family life during childhood, as well as her husband and her marriage. She also tells us about activities (social and personal) during her childhood. Her education is also discussed in detail, and …


Oral History Interview: B'Alma Epps Jones, B'Alma Epps Jones Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: B'Alma Epps Jones, B'Alma Epps Jones

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. B'Alma Epps Jones began teaching in Washington High School in London, West Virginia in the 1930s. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview (including her father who had many jobs, such as a candy -maker), Christmas in her family, her husband and her married life, social activities she and her husband participated in, the deaths of her mother and husband, and a white relative in her family. She also tells us detailed information about her education, …


Oral History Interview: Anna Mccright, Anna Mccright Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Anna Mccright, Anna Mccright

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Anna McCright began teaching in 1942 at a one-room school and later become principal of a school in Monongah, West Virginia. She gives us detailed information about her family and her childhood throughout the interview, including information on her sister Catherine's children, discrimination she faced as a child at integrated schools, an anecdote about another student who gave her trouble at a segregated school, and a brief section on Christmas during her childhood. She also tells us detailed information about …


Oral History Interview: Doris J. Payne, Doris J. Payne Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Doris J. Payne, Doris J. Payne

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Doris J. Payne started teaching at Cannelton Elementary School in the 1950s. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including members of her family who were slaves, white and Native American relatives, education in her family, her brother serving in the Navy, family life, as well as the death of her mother. She also discusses her childhood. Education is another large topic, and she tells us about a one-room school she attended (Cannelton Elementary School) and …


Oral History Interview: Nancie Smith Robinson, Nancie Smith Robinson Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Nancie Smith Robinson, Nancie Smith Robinson

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Nancie Smith Robinson taught at a number of public schools, including one in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. She gives us very detailed information about her family, including their jobs and education, family reunions, white relatives, Christmas, parenting, her children participating in the Civil Rights Movement, and her family life. Her education is discussed in detailed as well; she attended Douglass High School and Bluefield State College, and recalls her teachers and her social life. Her teaching career is an important …


Oral History Interview: Fannie Ashe Thomas, Fannie Ashe Thomas Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Fannie Ashe Thomas, Fannie Ashe Thomas

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Mrs. Fannie Ashe Thomas was born in Mount Hope, West Virginia. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including her father, who was a coal miner and who bought a bus to transport kids to school, her son Gavin, her marriages, family life, the home her father built, the ways her family influenced her, and her brother Tom's death. She also provides detailed information about her childhood and her education, recalling: social events; race relations during …


General Undergraduate Catalog, 1999-2001, Marshall University Jan 1999

General Undergraduate Catalog, 1999-2001, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 1990-1999

Marshall University General Undergraduate Catalog for the 1999-2001 academic years.


Oral History Interview: Mary Ellen Scrivner, Mary Ellen Scrivner Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Mary Ellen Scrivner, Mary Ellen Scrivner

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Mary Ellen Scrivner discusses: her personal history and childhood; detailed information about her family; her education; childhood punishments; farm life and farming; clothes and shoes; church; a brief mention of an alcohol still; some memories of Huntington (WV); World War II and the GI Bill; medicine; the Huntington flood of 1937; memories of playing board games; stories about her family and about relationship courting (and an eloping); as well as other topics.


Oral History Interview: Thelma White Mcdaniel, Thelma White Mcdaniel Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Thelma White Mcdaniel, Thelma White Mcdaniel

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning Oral Histories of African-American women who taught in West Virginia public schools. Thelma White McDaniel began teaching in Chesapeake (Ohio) at a one-room school. She gives us detailed information about her family throughout the interview, including family members who were slaves, her family's employment history, her family's view on the importance of education, Christmas during her childhood, her husband and her marriage, the house she grew up in, her daughter, her relationships with family members, as well as information about her mother and siblings. There is also a section on tobacco farming. …


Oral History Interview: Patricia S. Rose, Patricia S. Rose Jan 1999

Oral History Interview: Patricia S. Rose, Patricia S. Rose

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Patricia Rose was a retired physical education teacher, born in 1938. She grew up in coal mine camps in Wharton, W. Va. in Boone County during the 1940s and 1950s. Her father was a non- union mine foreman. There were 10 children in her family, and she gives a lot of information about everyday life in the camps, and also goes back to discuss life in her grandparents' time and their hardships. Schools of the time are described in detailed, and a lot of emphasis is put …