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Interview No. 833, Maurice Spearman, M.D. Mar 1991

Interview No. 833, Maurice Spearman, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; medical school; military duty with U.S. Navy; changes in El Paso's hospitals; experiences as editor of Southwestern Journal of Medicine; volunteer work with Southwestern Children's Home; founding El Paso Medical Center, comments on Roundtable meetings with Ed Pooley, editor of the El Paso Herald Post.

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Interview No. 825, Robert Homan Jr. M.D. Sep 1990

Interview No. 825, Robert Homan Jr. M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; reminisces on opening of University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; construction of tuberculosis sanitorium by father and John C. Crimmon, D.D.S; improvement of surgical procedures during WW II; advances of anesthesiology,; advent of sulfa drugs, penicillin and other antibiotics; changes in medical practice; establishing Thomason General Hospital.

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Interview No. 817, Louis W. Breck, M.D. Sep 1990

Interview No. 817, Louis W. Breck, M.D.

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; medical education and training as U.S. Army Orthopedist; internship at El Paso at El Paso's City- County Hospital; area physicians ; El Paso County Medical Society.

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Interview No. 773, Diana Natalicio Nov 1989

Interview No. 773, Diana Natalicio

Combined Interviews

General biographical data; career highlights at UTEP, institutional history during 1970s and 1980s, her major goals and accomplishments for the university.

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Interview No. 781, Gary Massingill Oct 1989

Interview No. 781, Gary Massingill

Combined Interviews

Tells of his educational career and speaks of the influence of professors at UTEP, particularly W. H. McAnulty, then head of UTEP' s geological sciences department. Graduated PhD in May, 1979, the first PhD recipient at UTEP.

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Interview No. 778, Luz Villegas Oct 1989

Interview No. 778, Luz Villegas

Combined Interviews

Tells of her experiences as a student 1977-1982 with special emphasis on student government activities 1981-1982 and working with Dr. Haskell Monroe, then president of UTEP.

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Interview No. 779, Charles V. Balang Oct 1989

Interview No. 779, Charles V. Balang

Combined Interviews

Impressions of El Paso and comparisons of education and culture of Malaysia and the U.S.

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Interview No. 772, Rudy Tellez Oct 1989

Interview No. 772, Rudy Tellez

Combined Interviews

El Paso native recounts experiences as student at Texas Western College 1948-1952; jobs at local radio stations. In 1964 he landed a job with national television network, became producer of the Johnny Carson Show and won 2 Emmys for TV work.

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Interview No. 783, Milton Ottey Oct 1989

Interview No. 783, Milton Ottey

Combined Interviews

Describes first impression of El Paso; compares educational systems in Canada an U.S; tells about his track career as a high jumper including competition in 1984 Olympics, gold medals at the commonwealth games in 1982 and 1986; discussions of UTEP's coaching staff; comments about track team members Bert Cameron and S. Nyambui and comments on high numbers of foreign athletes on Ted Bank's UTEP track team ; describes UTEP'S winning the NCAA indoor track championship.

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Interview No. 784, Donald S. Henderson Oct 1989

Interview No. 784, Donald S. Henderson

Combined Interviews

Describes TWC in 1950s, the dedicated teaching of the faculty, and race relation on campus; describes famous alligator prank and a panty raid; explains role of fraternities and sororities in campus life of the 1950s; lists accomplishments as mayor of El Paso.

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Interview No. 875, Salvador F. Treviño Oct 1989

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.

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Interview No. 782, Thomas F. Meagher Sep 1989

Interview No. 782, Thomas F. Meagher

Combined Interviews

Describes student life in early 1970s, lived in Kelly Hall, then a coed dorm, played tuba in UTEP band; discusses nursing curriculum, clinicals, early links of UTEP's nursing program to Hotel Dieu School of Nursing, the health care market.

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Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca Sep 1989

Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca

Combined Interviews

Tells of childhood in Juarez and El Paso barrio, recalls experience as engineering student in the 1980s, how scholarship helped him, his job after graduation at Bell Helicoptor.

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Interview No. 795, Ethel Robbins Schwartz Sep 1989

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.

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Interview No. 794, Virginia Green Sep 1989

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.

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Interview No. 780, William S. Steven Jul 1989

Interview No. 780, William S. Steven

Combined Interviews

Describes life as a married student and athlete at Texas Western College 1964-67; tells teaching techniques of Dr. Porter of the history department; tells about his athletic career and playing football under Coach Bobby Dobbs and for Green Bay Packers.

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Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler Jul 1989

Interview No. 831, Louise Schuessler, W.W. Schuessler

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; comments on discrimination against military personnel in El Paso; El Paso County Historical society; early days of medical practice; ranch near Sierra Blanca; El Paso's role in helping patients with respiratory diseases; are hospitals; Border Patrol Museum.

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Interview No. 776, Charles T. Brown Jul 1989

Interview No. 776, Charles T. Brown

Combined Interviews

Basketball career at Texas Western College 1956-1959; integration of college sports; race relations in El Paso and other places in the Border Conferences.

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Interview No. 775, Cesar Arroyo Jun 1989

Interview No. 775, Cesar Arroyo

Combined Interviews

Family background Parral, Mexico; Pancho Villa destroyed his parents home; immigrated to El Paso 1914; early years in Sunset Heights neighborhood, attended Villas, Morehead, and El Paso High School; mining career in Mexico.

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Interview No. 797, Virginia Deter Jun 1989

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.

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Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom May 1989

Interview No. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical information; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; El Paso hospital in existence in early 1940s; husband's internship at El Paso City-County Hospitals; acquisition of S.T. Turner Home by Medical Society; husband's involvement in pioneering El Paso Orthopedic Surgical Group; Frank Goodwin, M.D, El Paso's first orthopedic surgeon; Medical Auxiliary collection of physician log books from 1869-1940s.

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Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell Apr 1989

Interview No. 818, Mary Smith Caufield, Llillian Mount, Anna K. Mitchell

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; biographical data; experiences in nursing school, private duty nursing; history of Masonic Hospital; volunteer work for Our Lady of Charity Sisters; St. Vincent's Clinic; St. Joseph Hospital; Newark Maternity Hospital; participation in president Lyndon B. Johnson's; Title One Health Care Program; polio epidemic and vaccinations; donation of S.T. Turner home to El Paso County Medical Society; sale of Hotel Dieu; demolition of Liberty Hall; relationship between nurses and physicians.

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Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer Apr 1989

Interview No. 832, Sister Tharsilla Schwietzer

Combined Interviews

Recalls experiences as nurse at St. Joseph's Sanitorium, tuberculosis health care facility in El Paso, Texas; demolition of St. Joseph's Hospital; sketches history of Order of Sisters of St. Joseph; arrival of Order to El Paso in 1927; discusses changes in Order; comments on segregation of patients in hospitals.

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Interview No. 798, Cheri Frye Spier Jan 1989

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.

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Interview No. 796, Dr. Jean Turner Bowman Jun 1988

Interview No. 796, Dr. Jean Turner Bowman

Combined Interviews

Family background; medical school experiences; medical auxiliary; the Turner Home; life in EL Paso during WWII; Kern Places area; change in El Paso over the years; Ft. Bliss Hospital before renamed William Beaumont Hospital.

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Interview No. 823, Frances Hatfield Apr 1988

Interview No. 823, Frances Hatfield

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; recalls husband's intership at El Paso City-County Hospital and opening private practice in Ysleta; economic conditions during the Depression; husband's military stint during WW II ; residency in Houston; polio epidemic; activities of Medical Auxiliary during WW II; Woman's Auxiliary of the Texas Medical Association; acquisition of Turner home by El Paso County Medical Society.

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Interview No. 824, Evelyn Foltz Slusser Holt Apr 1988

Interview No. 824, Evelyn Foltz Slusser Holt

Combined Interviews

Part of Health Care on the Border Project; training and work experience in obstetrics at El Paso Masonic Hospital; husband's work with Southern Pacific Railroad; polio and flu epidemics in El Paso; husband's house calls; Woman's Auxiliary of El Paso County Medical Society; closing of Masonic hospital.

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Interview No. 771, James H. Polk Apr 1988

Interview No. 771, James H. Polk

Combined Interviews

Influence of parents, strong military tradition of family, West Point days 1929-1933, Fort Bliss in 1930s with trips to Juarez and polo games, cavalry school at Fort Riley, marriage and in-laws. Service in Europe in 3rd Cavalry under Gen. George Patton, battle tactics during European campaigns, comments about Patton, treatment of those released from concentration camps, comments about Douglas MacArthur, Korean campaigns, Berlin and political involvement required of military, comments on changes in the army between 1930s and 40s and 1970s, effects of Vietnam on the military, experiences during retirement years.

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Interview No. 770, Haskell M. Monroe Jul 1987

Interview No. 770, Haskell M. Monroe

Combined Interviews

Biographical information, born in Dallas and childhood years spent in Garland and Orange, Texas; influence of parents; college education and degrees from Austin College and Rice University; two years in Charleston, South Carolina, during service in the Navy; courtship and marriage to Jo Phillips; career highlights at Texas A&M, opinions and anecdotes about colleagues, reflections on his seven year as President of UTEP.

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Interview No. 767, Ruth Norton Jan 1987

Interview No. 767, Ruth Norton

Combined Interviews

Arrival in El Paso in 1918, discussion of Woman's Club activities, girl scouting, Cloudcroft's Baby San, cotton farming in El Paso.

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