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Articles 931 - 960 of 1746
Full-Text Articles in Oral History
Interview No. 777, Jose I. Oaxaca
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.
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. 780, William S. Steven
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
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
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
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
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. 816, Mrs. Maurine Basom
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
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
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.
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.
Interview No. 796, Dr. Jean Turner Bowman
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
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
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.
Interview No. 771, James H. Polk
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.
Interview No. 770, Haskell M. Monroe
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.
Interview No. 767, Ruth Norton
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.
Interview No. 768, Colbert Coldwell
Interview No. 768, Colbert Coldwell
Combined Interviews
Recollections of Coldwell and Eubank families, who settled in the El Paso area before the arrival of the railroads and farmed in the Lower Valley.
Interview No. 761, James F. Hulse
Interview No. 761, James F. Hulse
Combined Interviews
Discusses early years of the law firm, in particular cases he handled in the 1930's.
Interview No. 759, Orsten Artis
Interview No. 759, Orsten Artis
Combined Interviews
Experiences playing basketball for TWC, the 1966 basketball season options of coaching staff, black-white controversy.
Interview No. 748, Nevil Shed
Interview No. 748, Nevil Shed
Combined Interviews
New York native, first impressions of Texas Western, experiences playing basketball for TWC, the 1966 basketball season, coaches Moe Iba and Don Haskins, the Final Four, the TWC-Kenntucky championship game
Interview No. 756, Wesley E. Stiles
Interview No. 756, Wesley E. Stiles
Combined Interviews
Early Border Patrol History in Del Rio, Texas; Immigration Law.
Interview No. 762, Leona Washington
Interview No. 762, Leona Washington
Combined Interviews
Her experiences growing up and living in El Paso, the segregation she encountered, her relationship with Hispanics and the contributions of Blacks to the city.
Interview No. 765, Ruth Nash King
Interview No. 765, Ruth Nash King
Combined Interviews
Discusses social and cultural activities of blacks in El Paso during the 20s, 30s, and 40s.
Interview No. 751, Frances Hills
Interview No. 751, Frances Hills
Combined Interviews
Childhood in El Paso; attendance at Douglass School; the black experience in El Paso including typical occupations, recreation, shopping, and medical care; her college years in Alabama; career in Civil Service; relationships with Hispanics; segregation; Jim Crow cars; some discussion of anti-discrimination ordinances in the 1960s.
Interview No. 717, José I. Oaxaca
Interview No. 717, José I. Oaxaca
Combined Interviews
Brief biographical data, recollections of his experiences as an engineering student in the 1980s, his scholarship, St. Pat's Day
Interview No. 718, Wilson H. Elkins
Interview No. 718, Wilson H. Elkins
Combined Interviews
Recollections of his years as president of the College.
Interview No. 723, Fred W. Hanes
Interview No. 723, Fred W. Hanes
Combined Interviews
Discusses his career development, assesses the weaknesses and strengths of the UTEP Library, tells of his relationships with different administrations and the planning and construction of the new library building, which was completed in 1984.
Interview No. 763, Wyndham Kemp White
Interview No. 763, Wyndham Kemp White
Combined Interviews
Southern background, his childhood summers in Virgina, college years at VMI, ancestors' role in Civil War, polo playing in El Paso and Juarez, horses, shows, and ranching.