History Commons^™

Interview No. 691, W.T. Bush

Combined Interviews

How he came to school at the College of Mines; recollections of professors and students; gambling; the Prohibition era; classes. [Technical difficulties]

Interview No. 649, Neftali Ruelas

Combined Interviews

Disillusionment upon his return to El Paso after WWII; discrimination against Mexican Americans; recollections of various professors; Vet Village Trailer Camp.

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. 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. 688, John S. White

Combined Interviews

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

Interview No. 802, Rosa Martínez

Combined Interviews

Recalls early childhood in El Paso; schools attended; work in the Immigration Office; work as a translator in the Censorship Department; entertainment after work; recounts attitude of neighborhood toward war; overall feelings about the War.

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. 642, William Strain, Valilyan Strain

Combined Interviews

Experiences during World War II; fossil hunting on Mt. Cristo Rey amid U.S. machin gun nests; Charlie Steen, "The Uranium King"; definition of "Peedoggies"; Cap. Kidd; interesting and amusing recollections of campus life; faculty members who came to El Paso for their health; teaching load.

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. 616, Bulah Liles Patterson

Combined Interviews

How she came to teach at the College of Mines in 1927; personalities,

social life, and activities from the 19205 through the 1950s.

Interview No. 655, Utep Golden Grads

Combined Interviews

Moderated by James Peak; comments by James Day; comments by Ruth Brown
McCluney, first female student registered at the College of Mines in 1916;
comments by Thad Steele, Class of 1916; comments by Charlotte Hanson, Class of 1933.

Interview No. 615, W.H Timmons

Combined Interviews

How he came to U.T. El Paso in 1949; University personalities, social life, ethnic makeup, teaching and research at U.T. El Paso.

Interview No. 614, Themis Molina Peinado

Combined Interviews

Family histories of the Molina and Peinado families.

Interview No. 628, Eric Morris

Combined Interviews

Presentation to UTEP history class on the Battle of Salerno during World War II.

Interview No. 633, Vicki L. Ruiz

Combined Interviews

Presentation, "Social Service in South El Paso: A History of Friendship Square."

Interview No. 634, W.H. Timmons

Combined Interviews

Presentation on the Historic El Paso Region.

Interview No. 632, Joan Jensen

Combined Interviews

Presentation on the history of women in the Southwest.

Interview No. 636, Alberto Cisneros

Combined Interviews

The Mexican Revolutionary era, especially the experiences of his brother, Julian Cardenas; how his brother was killed by American soldiers in Mexico; biographical data and work experiences; life in Mexico.

Interview No. 625, Rex Gerald

Combined Interviews

Presentation to the El Paso Archaeological Society on the Socorro. Texas

archaeological excavation.

Interview No. 611, Rosa R. Guerrero

Combined Interviews

Life History

Interview No. 626, James Wilkie

Combined Interviews

Presentation to UTEP History Department on land reform in Mexico.

Interview No. 613, Lillie D. Ochoa

Combined Interviews

Life history: growing up in South Texas

Interview No. 612, Maria De Los Angeles Pompa

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 627, Eric Morris

Combined Interviews

Presentation to UTEP history department on Britain and the Falkland Islands, possibilities for future world war, the state of military history writing, the battle for Corregidor in World War II, his book about the Salerno campaign of World War II, and the use of oral history in his research.

Interview No. 631, Margie Adam

Combined Interviews

Workshop presentation at UTEP. "Women and the Creative Process."