Oral History Commons^™

Reynolds, William Oral History Interview: History Of The Hope College English Department, Christine Modey

History of the Hope College English Department

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Schakel, Peter J Oral History Interview: History Of The Hope College English Department, Christine Modey

History of the Hope College English Department

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hemenway, Stephen I Oral History Interview: History Of The Hope College English Department, Christine Modey

History of the Hope College English Department

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

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.

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.

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.

“A Gulf Of Style”: Experiences In The Practice Of Oral History With The Enga, Roderic Lacey

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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.

Noeline V. Hall's Review Of Claudia Knapman's White Women In Fiji, 1835-1930: The Ruin Of Empire?, Noeline V. Hall

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Eve C. Pinsker's Review Of Laura Marie Torres Souder-Jaffery's Daughters Of The Island: Contemporary Chamorro Women Organizers On Guam, Eve C. Pinsker

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Noeline V. Hall's Review Of Claudia Knapman's White Women In Fiji, 1835-1930: The Ruin Of Empire?, Noeline V. Hall

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Eve C. Pinsker's Review Of Laura Marie Torres Souder-Jaffery's Daughters Of The Island: Contemporary Chamorro Women Organizers On Guam, Eve C. Pinsker

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Richard Moyle's Review Of Even Hovdhaugen's From The Land Of Nafanua: Samoan Oral Texts In Transcription With Translation, Notes And Vocabulary, Richard Moyle

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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.

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.

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.

Folk Custom As A Barometer Of Social Change In A Tennessee Community, Chad Berry

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Using the techniques of oral history, residents of the Cypress Creeks area of southwestern middle Tennessee were questioned about their perceptions of the social change since 1940. In that year, the National Park Service hired men in the area to help snake out logs for the Natchez Trace Parkway's right-of-way. For most men in the area, the temporary positions on the Trace were the first "public" jobs they ever had. After these positions were no longer needed, outmigration brought residents north to factory-cities; thus, the building of the parkway remains a watershed in residents' memories as the benchmark when change …

Oral History: A Curriculum Guide, Nancy Lee Geiken

Graduate Research Papers

The subject of this paper ls the development and design of a curriculum guide which facilitates teaching students how to complete an oral history of another person. The purpose of the research was to design an Oral History Unit for the Composition II course at Washington High School in Vinton, Iowa. Extensive research was done to determine that no curriculum guide existed which would meet the needs of the course and students.

Data were collected on a •typical• class at Washington High School. The school philosophy and objectives were studied, along with the course objectives. Based on research of the …

Max Quanchi's Review Of Leonard Mason's Kiribati: A Changing Atoll Culture, Max Quanchi

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Dershem, Herbert L (Computer Science) Oral History Interview: Science Professors At Hope College, Brian Williams

Science Professors at Hope College

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Jekel, Eugene C (Chemistry) Oral History Interview: Science Professors At Hope College, Brian Williams

Science Professors at Hope College

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Steketee, Charles A (Mathematics And Science) Oral History Interview: Science Professors At Hope College, Brian Williams

Science Professors at Hope College

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Tharin, J Cotter (Geology) Oral History Interview: Science Professors At Hope College, Brian Williams

Science Professors at Hope College

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Brink, Irwin J (Chemistry) Oral History Interview: Science Professors At Hope College, Brian Williams

Science Professors at Hope College

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Rebecca A. Stephenson's Review Of Ngatupuna Kautai Et Al., Atiu: An Island Community, Rebecca A. Stephenson

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.