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University of Texas at El Paso. Institute of Oral History—interviews.
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Interview No. 875, Salvador F. Treviño
Interview No. 875, Salvador F. Treviño
Combined Interviews
Biographical data; shares recollections of students days at Texas College of Mines, 1936-1941; impressions of professors; work experiences in Mexican mining industry.
Interview No. 795, Ethel Robbins Schwartz
Interview No. 795, Ethel Robbins Schwartz
Combined Interviews
Discusses her father's retail business in El Paso; life in El Paso during WWII; while her husband was away with military; volunteer work at William Beaumont and Thomason Hospitals; Jewish community in El Paso; Doctor's Auxiliary; Husband's duty stations while a member of the armed forces during WWII.
Interview No. 794, Virginia Green
Interview No. 794, Virginia Green
Combined Interviews
Discusses courtship; depression in El Paso; El Paso during the war years (1943-1945); Doctor's Auxiliary; Dr. Nixon and race relations in El Paso.
Interview No. 797, Virginia Deter
Interview No. 797, Virginia Deter
Combined Interviews
Discusses family background and husband's medical education; husband's duty stations during WWII; medical auxiliary from 1943 to present; differences in medical auxiliary from the 1940s to today; work on state and national levels; problems of the organization today; polio epidemics; daughter as Sun Queen and effect on her and her husband; the Turner Home.
Interview No. 798, Cheri Frye Spier
Interview No. 798, Cheri Frye Spier
Combined Interviews
Discusses medical artifacts, paintings, memorabilia found in the Turner Home, the museum of the medical auxiliary. Discusses also the history of the Turner home and changes in the auxiliary from its founding in 1928.