Oral History Commons^™

Interview No. 683, Maxine Steele, Thad Steele

Combined Interviews

How Mr. Steele became a student at the College of Mines; the football program; professors and students; fraternities; St. Patrick's Day activities; t·1rs. Steele's responsibilities; dormitory life; social activities; pranks; the Outstanding Ex banquet in 1968.

Interview No. 672, Emily T. Zillich

Combined Interviews

Activities, course work. buildings. professors and

other reminiscences of the College of Mines in

the 1930s.

Interview No. 693, St. Clair Halbert

Combined Interviews

How he came to the university; growth and changes of the university; peace corps training; trust funds; various presidents he worked with; greatest satisfaction he has gotten from working at UTEP; pro~ems at the university.

Interview No. 688, John S. White

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; how he came to UTEP in 1948; recollections of administrators, professors, and buildings.

Interview No. 685, Richard W. Myers

Combined Interviews

How he came to school in El Paso; Basketball season; the 1966 Championship team, games played, celebrations; Sports Illustrated articles about black athletes. TWC-UTEP athletics in the mid-sixties

Interview No. 690, Thomas G. Barnes

Combined Interviews

Coming to the Physics Department in 1938; faculty members; working with the Civilian Pilot Training program and war research between 1942-1945; how he wrote Foundations of Electricity and Magnetism; course load; scheduling cl asses; the name change to Texas Western College; the Schellenger Research Laboratories.

Interview No. 702, Martha Lou Broaddus, Mohrhauser J. Broaddus

Combined Interviews

Recollections of professors, sororities and fraternities, pranks, dress codes, going to Juarez, and other campus activities.

Interview No. 681, Ralph Coleman

Combined Interviews

Recollections of administrators and tuition fee; the building of the Schellenger Research Lab; St. Patrick's Day activities of the Engineering students; different sites of the Engineering Department; evolution of the Engineering Department; how the first Union Building was built; campus dances; pranks played by students and faculty; athletics.

Interview No. 674, Roberta Walker

Combined Interviews

Early years at TWC; how she began teaching English; recollections of administrators, faculty and students; campus social life; comparison of students, past and present; memorable events in her teaching career.

NOTE: This transcript has been heavily edited by the interviewee.

Interview No. 671, Ruth Brown Mccluney

Combined Interviews

Recollections of the College of Mines in the early years.