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Betty Weatherly Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Betty Weatherly, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Betty Weatherly on July 15, 2003 about her life and her experiences with her disability. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Mary Beth Mitchell Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Mary Beth Mitchell, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Mary Beth Mitchell on July 15, 2003 about her work in Hope Homes group home and her interaction with the residents. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Ray Thomas Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Ray Thomas, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Ray Thomas on July 15, 2003 about his work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Jean Tydings Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Jean Tydings, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Jean Tydings on July 15, 2003 about her work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

John Gill Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, John Gill, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed John Gill on July 14, 2003 about his life and his experiences with mental illness. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Terry Alexander Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Terry Alexander, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Terry Alexander on July 15, 2003 about her work in Hope Homes group home and her interaction with the residents. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Jack Carroll Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Jack Carroll, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Jack Carroll on July 14, 2003 about his life and his experiences with his developmental disability. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Marcia Dufore Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Marcia Dufore, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Marcia Dufore on July 14, 2003 about her brother Jack's life and about the families experiences with his disabilities. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Wayne Alexander Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Wayne Alexander, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Wayne Alexander on July 14, 2003 about his work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Judy Walker Cunningham Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Judy Walker Cunningham, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Judy Walker Cunningham on July 14, 2003 about her work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Barbara Jones Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Barbara Jones, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Barbara Jones on July 14, 2003 about her work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Jim And Carol Osburn Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Jim Osburn, Carol Osburn, Jeff Moyer

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Jeff Moyer interviewed Jim and Carol Osburn about their life together and their experiences with Dan's developmental disability. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities. There are two transcripts to cover the full interview.

Souter, Art Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

Sjoerdsma, Edward Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

Interview No. 1051, Sebastián Jaimes Gutiérrez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Jaimes recalls his childhood and his early work in the fields; he explains how he attended school with a private teacher, and when two of his siblings died; additionally, he details his experiences before becoming a bracero, and how he once refused to marry a rich girl because he was poor; he discusses how he sold candies to survive in Empalme, Sonora, México while waiting to receive his first bracero contract; in 1952, he was hired as a bracero; he worked in Arizona and California; he states that, when his first contract was up, he returned to México and …

Beatrice Chait Interview, Professor, College Of Education And Human Services, And Former Associate Dean And Director Of Teacher Education, Wright State University, Marlene Bireley, Beatrice Chait

Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project

Marlene Bireley interviewed Beatrice Chait on July 5, 2009 about the founding of Wright State University and the development of the College of Education and Human Services. In the interview Dr. Chait discusses her career and her decision to come to Wright State as a founding staff member. The original audio for this interview was damaged so a secondary interview was conducted through written questions.

Mellie Dunham: A Remembrance Norway Maine Summer Festival, July 2003, David Sanderson

Maine History Documents

The story of Mellie Dunham continues to fascinate, even some seventy-five years after the events. The tale of the 72-year-old country fiddler invited to play for Henry Ford, made famous by the media, then hugely successful as a vaudeville performer, seems almost too perfect to be true. But it all happened, and it was Mellie’s own grace and lack of pretense, a genuineness that inspired the public’s affection for him, that was as much as anything else responsible for the events of 1925 and 1926.

This booklet was created to mark Mellie’s 150th birthday, July 29, 2003. We call it …

Lambers, Katherine Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

Interview No. 1057, Bernardo Treviño Cervantes

Combined Interviews

Mr. Treviño recalls his childhood in Saltillo, Coahuila, México, and his work as a child on the farm; he remembers going through the hiring process in Zacatecas, Zacatecas, México, and signing his contract in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; additionally, he describes his trip to the border, and being sprayed with pesticide at the United States-México border; he states that he worked as a bracero until 1964 in Michigan and Texas; there, he picked and irrigated cotton and cut cucumbers; furthermore, he details what his daily activities were like, and the good treatment he received in the United States; he relates …

Interview No. 1052, Víctor Martínez A.

Combined Interviews

Mr. Martínez recalls growing up in Miacatlán, Morelos, México; he remembers that, as a child, he helped his family with farming chores; they harvested corn, peanuts, and rice for self consumption and profit; he states that he stopped attending school at an early age due to the ill treatment he received from his teacher, and that he learned to read and write as an adult; additionally he discusses how his father opposed him going to the United States for work; due to this, he hired a coyote to take him to Empalme, Sonora, México so he could enlist in the …

Interview No. 1048, Felipe Corona

Combined Interviews

Mr. Corona recalls the death of his father when he was eight years old, and how he helped his mother to sell rice in towns around Mazatepec, Morelos, México; he states that later he labored in sugar cane fields; additionally, he remembers that, in 1943, he was hired as a bracero, but decided to stay in México out of fear of what would happen in the United States due to the Second World War; he details why he signed up again for the Bracero Program in 1955, and discusses the treatment he received as a bracero; additionally, he details how …

Pieksma-Delange, Sergio Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

Overway, Cherry Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

Fynewever, Ruth Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

Interview No. 988, Andrés Héctor Quezada Lara

Combined Interviews

Mr. Quezada quit school in order to go to the United States and work as a bracero; he was hired in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México, but was sent to Querétaro, Querétaro to sign the job contract; his first contract took him to work in the Chicago Milwaukee Pacific Union railroads; after working there, he was sent to Kansas to work in the fields; while there, he organized a meeting to ask for better salary for the braceros; their pay was increased from 50¢ to 90¢ per hour; he was then sent to work in Missouri, where he had an accident while …

Interview No. 966, Raúl Enriquez González

Combined Interviews

Mr. Enríquez recalls the privileges the people from Chihuahua, México, enjoyed during the hiring process; he raised cattle and worked in the cotton fields of the same ranch for six years; the ranchers he worked for spoke Spanish, and the rancher’s wife would bring him lunch while he was out working in the fields; although he also worked in Arizona and Texas, working in Colorado was the best experience he had as a bracero.

Interview No. 970, Socorro Flores Pando

Combined Interviews

When Mr. Flores began the hiring process in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México, he was asked for a Mexican military ID and a recommendation letter; he came to the United States as a bracero when he was only eighteen years old; upon entering the United States, he was sent to El Paso, Texas, and then to Rio Vista, a processing center in Socorro, Texas, for a physical examination; while there, he signed a job contract and was sent to the ranch where he would work; he worked in Fort Stockton, Texas, for seven months watering the fields; his weekly salary was $116.00.

Interview No. 980, Gonzalo Morales

Combined Interviews

Mr. Morales briefly recounts his childhood; in 1954, he heard about the Bracero Program; due to financial difficulties, he decided to go to Chihuahua, Chihuahua México, to begin the hiring process; he recalls how the Mexican President, Lázaro Cárdenas, prohibited people on ejidos from being hired as braceros; only people from ranches were allowed to be braceros; while working as a bracero he was unaware that the Mexican government received 10¢ per bracero that was hired from the ranchers; while waiting in Rio Vista, a processing center in Socorro, Texas, the food the braceros were given was rotten; the water …

Interview No. 981, Guadalupe Nuñez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Núñez recalls that during his enrollment process in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México, there were only Mexican officers present; there were no American representatives; in addition, there were no exams or contracts given there; the United States government paid the Mexican government about 27¢ for each bracero that was hired; it was when they were moved to Rio Vista, a processing center in Socorro, Texas, that they were medically examined and signed contracts; he recalls that it was the last year of the program; his work contract lasted only three months, and took him to work in the cotton fields of …

Interview No. 989, Jesús Rodríguez Méndez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Rodríguez learned of the Bracero Program while living in his hometown of Guerrero, Chihuahua, México; he traveled to Chihuahua, Chihuahua, in order to begin the enrollment process; he had to wait for two weeks to be called; during this time, he did not have money or a place to stay; he recalls that people coming from southern México waited for months at El Trocadero, the processing center in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, to be hired; when the braceros were officially hired, the United States government paid the Mexican government 10¢ per bracero; in 1963, he was hired and sent to work …