Oral History Commons^™

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.

Interview No. 682, Joseph M. Ray

Combined Interviews

Tape I, pp. 1-32: First impressions of Texas Western College; how he first came to El Paso as a hitchhiker in 1927; how he entered the University of Texas in 1928; employment experiences from 1937 until he came to Texas Western College in 1960; problems with the administration at Amarillo College concerning ethnic and fiscal policies; the El Paso business community; how he helped improve the academic standing of the institution; administrators he worked with during his presidency; the establishment of the H.Y. Benedict professorships; MexicanAmerican faculty on the campus.

Tape II, pp. 33-62: His rel ationship with Frank Erwin …