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Oral History Interview with Michie Stevens, March 21, 2013

Description: Interview with Michie Stevens, stewardess for Air America, for the Air America Oral History Project. The interview includes Stevens' personal experiences of growing up in World War II China and Japan, having a brother join the Yakuza crime syndicate, getting her first English speaking jobs, hiring and training with Air America, meeting and marrying her husband, working as a stewardess for Air America in Japan, and living in Laos, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The interview includes an appendix w… more
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Date: March 21, 2013
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Stevens, Michie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Steve Stevens, March 21, 2013

Description: Interview with Air America fixed-wing and rotary-wing pilot Steve Stevens for the Air America Oral History Project. The interview includes Stevens' personal experiences while serving with the Marine Corps in the Korean War, flight training with the Marine Corps, getting hired with Air America, as well as flying the Sikorsky H-34 helicopter in Laos, photo reconnaissance missions throughout Laos including the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the Beechcraft Volpar, flying other helicopters and airplanes in La… more
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Date: March 21, 2013
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Stevens, Steve
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kim Phillips, March 20, 2013

Description: Interview with Kim Phillips, vice-president of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Longview, Texas. Phillips discusses her love of Denton, her childhood and education, the music scene, the sense of community,, the CVB's work, local history, Quakertown, the Chamber of Commerce, the black and Hispanic communities, and the Confederate memorial. In appendix is a picture of Denton County Courthouse and the County Confederate Memorial.
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Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Phillips, Kim
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Dana Lodge, March 19, 2013

Description: Interview with Dana Lodge, an employee of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Dallas, Texas. Lodge discusses growing up, her education, her work in the restaurant industry, entering the hospitality industry and her work with the Bureau, festivals and events in Denton, local history, and plans for the future of Denton. In appendix are pictures of the Denton County Courthouse and the Confederate Soldiers memorial. Includes an appendix.
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Date: March 19, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Lodge, Dana
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Nicole Deluna, March 17, 2013

Description: Interview with Nicole Deluna, third generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Deluna's personal experiences of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as the meaning of high school graduation, reasons for not attending college, a discussion of cultural expectations of Mexican American women, her daughter's educational plans, and the benefit of an education in the workplace. The interview includes an appendix… more
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Date: March 17, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Deluna, Nicole
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, March 14, 2013

Description: Interview with Lisa Jane Lachance-Skier, a Air Force veteran from Phoenix, Arizona. Lachance-Skier discusses growing up, participating in Junior ROTC, enlisting in the Air Force in 1976, experiences as a woman in a newly integrated Air Force, sexual harassment and assault in the military, service in England, attending ROTC and becoming an officer, her marriage, service in Germany, her work during the Gulf War, being forced out as part of a personnel drawdown, transitioning to the civilian world… more
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Date: March 14, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Lachance-Skier, Lisa Jane
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Oral History Interview with Shelley Schnittker, February 24, 2013

Description: Interview with U.S. Navy Seaman, Avionics Technician, and Persian Gulf War-era Veteran Shelley Schnittker for the Women Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes her experiences with childhood in Arlington and the effects of her parent's divorce. She talks about her experience in drug rehab, reasons for joining the Navy, training in a job recently opened to women, her experience in an all-female company at boot camp, life at duty station in San Diego, California, and the reaction of… more
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Date: February 24, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Schnittker, Shelley
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charlye Heggins, February 19, 2013

Description: Interview with former Denton City Council member Charlye Heggins as part of the UNT African American Remembrance Project. The interview includes Heggins' personal experiences about her childhood, raising a family, doing volunteer work in Denton, and being involved with Texas politics. She particularly talks about discrimination and race issues in Denton during the 1970s and '80s. It includes an appendix with photographs and an article about her death.
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Date: February 19, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Heggins, Charlye
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Oral History Interview with William F. Collier, February 17, 2013

Description: Interview with William F. Collier, Marine veteran and Air America helicopter pilot, for the Air America Oral History Project. The interview includes Collier's personal experiences as a Marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam, living with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, living in Thailand, search and rescue missions, and the Marine Aviation Cadet program, as well as his early love of aviation, interaction with the local populations in Southeast Asia, rumors about Air America, thoughts on the Air Amer… more
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Date: February 17, 2013
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Collier, William F.
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Oral History Interview with Ceclia Bermejo Hernandez, February 16, 2013

Description: Interview with Cecelia Hernandez, a Mexican-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Hernandez discusses her schooling, her family, thoughts on college and first generation students, becoming and being a parent, working at Fort Worth ISD, and encountering struggles as a Hispanic person and parent. In appendix is her family tree.
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Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo-Hernandez, Cecelia
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Oral History Interview with Josephine Bermejo, February 16, 2013

Description: Interview with Josephine Bermejo, first generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bermejo's recollections of schooling in Minnesota and Iowa, learning in English schools, leaving school for family obligations, and getting a GED in Fort Worth, Texas. Bermejo also talks about children's education and her thoughts on the future of Mexican American education. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
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Date: February 16, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Bermejo, Josephine
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Lorra Golden, February 9, 2013

Description: Interview with Lorra Golden, a Army Iraq War veteran from Gainesville, Texas. Golden discusses her family background, life before the military, joining the Army, training, struggles as an older enlistee and a lesbian in the service, deployment to Camp Taji, driving convoys, seeing combat, having PTSD, veterans, the chain of command, women in combat and female integration, and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In appendix is a chronology of Golden's service, and two photos of newspaper clippi… more
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Date: February 9, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Golden, Lorra
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, January 19, 2013

Description: Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, a software engineer and immigrant to Texas from Sivas, Turkey. Ozer discusses his family background, his education, his marriage, Turkish culture and community in the US, the effect of the 2008 financial crisis, immigration, graduate school, work, and citizenship.
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Date: January 19, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Ozer, Emre Ersin
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Igor Juric, January 12, 2013

Description: Interview with Igor Juric, an immigrant from Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Juric discusses growing up in Yugoslavia, fleeing to Vela Luka at the start of the Bosnian Wars, returning to Konjic and living in the midst of conflict, fleeing to Germany via Čapljina, moving to the Colony, Texas, and adjusting to life in America.
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Date: January 12, 2013
Creator: McKee, David & Juric, Igor
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kamran Khadivar, December 9, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Kamran Khadivar, a civil/structural engineer, businessman, and Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Khadivar discusses his childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution; education in America; work experience; continuing Iranian traditions in own family; opportunities provided in America.
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Date: December 9, 2012
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Khadivar, Kamran, 1960-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview With Thanh Kim Huynh, December 8, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Thanh Kim Huynh, Vietnamese-born immigrant to Carrollton, Texas for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Huynh discusses concerning his childhood in Vietnam; memories of the Vietnam War; experiences as a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnamese Army; evacuation to Guam; transfer to the U.S.; life in America; culture shock; settlement in Dallas-Fort Worth area; immigration process as a refugee; considering America “home;” Dallas Vietnamese communit… more
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Date: December 8, 2012
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Huynh, Thanh Kim, 1953-
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Oral History Interview with Marzena Ksiazkiewicz

Description: Interview with Marzena Kasiazkiewicz, a immigrant to the Dallas area from Kraków, Poland. Kasiazkiewicz discusses first coming to the United States, caring for her mother, her parents, growing up in communist Poland, deciding to stay in the US, adjusting to the American workplace, moving to Texas, her partner and children, the effect of 9/11 on immigrants, learning English, working in eye-care, and John Paul II.
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Date: December 6, 2012
Creator: McKee, David & Kasiazkiewicz, Marzena
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Oral History Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, December 4, 2012

Description: Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Dreyspring's personal experiences of childhood in Australia, interactions with American soldiers during World War II, the Japanese invasion of Australia, her first visit to the U.S., first impressions of America, her first marriage to an American, and her return to Australia for the immigration process. It also includes her impre… more
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Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Dreyspring, Dulcie Barnier
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Oral History Interview with Frtiz E. Schwalm

Description: Interview with Dritz Schwalm, a professor at the University of North Texas from Arolsen, Hesse. Schwalm discusses his family background, the county of Waldeck, his education, moving to the United States and working in academia, his parents' laundry business, the University of Marburg, working at Texas Women's University and the University of North Texas, German culture in the United States, shopping, the Goethe Institute, American politics, thoughts on citizenship, and radical leftists in Germa… more
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Date: December 4, 2012
Creator: Cox, Robert & Schwalm, Fritz E.
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Oral History Interview with Julio Cesar Jo Gallent, December 1, 2012

Description: Interview with Julio Cesar Jo Gallent, an immigrant from Martí, Cuba. Jo discusses his family fleeing Cuba, being rescued by the Coast Guard, staying in a camp at Guanatamo Bay, arriving in Miami, education and daily life in Castro's Cuba, American education, moving to Garland, Texas, visiting Cuba, and Cuba-US relations.
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Date: December 2, 2012
Creator: Malone, Timothy A. & Jo Gallent, Julio Cesar
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Oral History Interview with Vladislava Alaytseva, November 26, 2012

Description: Interview with Vladislava Alaytseva, Uzbekistani-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Alaytseva's personal experiences of childhood in Uzbekistan, moving to the U.S., transitioning to the American school system, her first impressions the U.S., and the culture shock in America. Additionally, Alaytseva talks about the transition of Uzbekistan from a Soviet satellite to an independent Muslim nation, her mother's family in Ru… more
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Date: November 26, 2012
Creator: Brooks, David & Alaytseva, Vladislava
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Oral History Interview with Hui Sun, November 18, 2012

Description: Interview with Hui Sun, a Chinese-American immigrant from Ankang, Shaanxi, China. Hui Sun discusses her childhood, her marriage, coming to the United States, American and Chinese culture, her children, parenting, her local Chinese community, Chinese holidays, reflections on love and personal growth, and her service in the People's Liberation Army.
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Date: November 18, 2012
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Sun, Hui
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Oral History Interview with John R. Masch, November 17, 2012

Description: Interview with Johnny Masch, a longtime resident of the Denton area from Blue Mound, Texas. Masch discusses his family history, his upbringing and education, farming, where he was for major historical events, his politics, his hobbies, and his family. In appendix are a photo of his grandparents and pictures of their passport.
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Date: November 17, 2012
Creator: Taylor, D. J. & Masch, John R.
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Oral History Interview with Jovita Soria, November 10, 2012

Description: Interview with Jovita Soria, Mexican-born immigrant to Plano, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. The interview includes Soria's personal experiences of childhood in Mexico, her first experience in Plano at the age of seventeen and her second on as a live-in nanny, her move to Abilene, Texas, and return to Mexico with her husband. Soria also talks about her return to Plano as an illegal immigrant, difficulties with illegal status, assimilation into Texas culture, chil… more
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Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Soria, Jovita
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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