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- Oral History Interview with David T. Vo, March 5, 2023
- Interview with David Vo, a resident of Calera, Oklahoma. Vo discusses his upbringing in Vietnam, his father's work as an officer in the South Vietnamese military, the Vietnam War, escaping on a boat and coming to the United States, getting his degree in automotive industrial technology at Cal State University, starting a family, and his perspective regarding his homeland.
- Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023
- Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
- Oral History Interview with Noel Lisboa, February 14, 2023
- Interview with Noel Lisboa, a Filipino personal trainer from Plano, Texas. Lisboa discusses growing up in the Philippines, Catholic education there, Filipino cuisine, family traditions and holidays, experiences with a political uprising, immigrating to the United States, food, life, and holidays in the United States compared to the Philippines, gang activity in the U.S., the fitness industry, and his community.
- Oral History Interview with Horace N. Robinson, February 11, 2023
- Interview with Horace N. Robinson, a resident of Durant, Oklahoma. Robinson discusses his upbringing, life in a small town, the appearance of polio, World War II, PTSD he had seen in veterans, Christianity, the development of pacifism, the Vietnam War, and reminders left behind.
- Oral History Interview with Jeanne Watson Driscoll, January 30, 2023
- Interview with Jeanne Watson Driscoll, a clinical nurse scientist from Boston, Massachusetts. Driscoll discusses her experience with obsessive thought disorder during her pregnancies, Carol Dix's book about postpartum depression, helping women with breastfeeding, becoming active in postpartum support organizations, PSI, the NURSE plan, DAD, and speaking on maternal mental health.
- Oral History Interview with Birdie Meyer, January 17, 2023
- Interview with Birdie Meyer, a registered nurse with a master's in counseling from Speedway, Indiana. Meyer discusses education, experience working as a nurse, learning about maternal mental health issues through Postpartum Support International and Depression After Delivery, working closely with PSI, Wade Bowen fundraising for the organization, training and programs, impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, inclusivity, and resources in the field of maternal mental health.
- Oral History Interview with Laurence Kruckman, January 10, 2023
- Interview with Laurence Kruckman, an anthropologist who specializes in mental health and epidemiology from South Venice, Florida. Kruckman discusses education, learning about postpartum illness and starting self-help groups with friends, spreading awareness, the DSM, Dar a Luz, becoming involved in leadership at PSI, and evolution of the support system in the U.S. for new mothers over time.
- Oral History Interview with Pec Indman, January 6, 2023
- Interview with Pec Indman, a mother and advocate for women's mental health from Cozumel, Mexico. Indman discusses working in a women's clinic, her education, raising awareness about postpartum depression, becoming co-author to a book, PSI, teaching and creating curriculum, transgender perinatal issues, and change over time.
- Oral History Interview with Jabina Coleman, November 3, 2022
- Interview with Jabina Coleman, a reproductive psychotherapist and certified lactation consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Coleman discusses her involvement in supporting maternal health, from running Life House Lactation & Perinatal Services to founding groups like Breastfeeding Awareness and Empowerment, the Perinatal Mental Health and Alliance for People of Color, and the Maternal Wellness Village in Philadelphia. Coleman discusses her own pregnancy, postpartum depression, education, and motivation to become an advocate in her field.
- Oral History Interview with Carol Blocker, October 14, 2022
- Interview with Carol Blocker, an activist from Chicago, Illinois. Blocker discusses postpartum activism, her experience with her daughter Melanie, the difference between postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Act, and the lack of detailed information available about postpartum mental illnesses.
- Oral History Interview with Divya Kumar, October 7, 2022
- Interview with Divya Kumar, an independent clinical social worker and psychotherapist from Boston, Massachusetts. Kumar discusses getting a certification in perinatal mental health from PSI, becoming a co-founder of the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color, Postpartum Progress, PSI trainings, issues, becoming an advisor, defining identity as a mother and as a person, and advocacy for diversity in leadership.
- Oral History Interview with Wendy Davis, October 7, 2022
- Interview with Wendy Davis, the executive director of Postpartum Support International from Portland, Oregon. Davis discusses her background in psychotherapy/psychology, becoming involved in the perinatal mental health field through her own experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, being helped by a doula, getting involved in maternal mental health groups, PSI and DAD, and the growth and development of PSI over time.
- Oral History Interview with Joy Burkhard, October 6, 2022
- Interview with Joy Burkhard, a mother and founder/executive director of the nonprofit organization 2020 Mom, soon to be renamed the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, from Valencia, California. Burkhard discusses work in the health delivery system, her own experience with motherhood, Postpartum Support International, founding her organization, maternal mental health disorders, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and the importance of access to child care and support.
- Oral History Interview with Susan Dowd Stone, September 23, 2022
- Interview with Susan Dowd Stone, a clinician, advocator, writer, family pillar, and educator at NYU from Englewood, New Jersey. Stone discusses working in business, transitioning to social work, the joint meeting between Depression After Delivery and Postpartum Support International, becoming PSI president, the Mothers Act, the DSM, and postpartum depression.
- Oral History Interview with Nancy Byatt, September 16, 2022
- Interview with Nancy Byatt, a perinatal psychiatrist from Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Byatt discusses background, family, education, experiences with women who had postpartum depression, starting The Lifeline for Family Center and the Lifeline for Moms at UMass, founding The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms, securing funding for the programs, and a sense of identity as a physician/scientist who partners with activists and advocates.
- Oral History Interview with Adrienne Griffen, August 12, 2022
- Interview with Adrienne Griffen, the Executive Director of the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance from Arlington, Virginia. Griffen discusses her family, time as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, education, her own experience with postpartum depression, becoming an advocate, Postpartum Support International, other leaders and organizations in her field, postpartum psychosis, statistics, and treatments.
- Oral History Interview with Jerry F. Price, May 31, 2022
- Interview with Jerry F. Price, a celebrated coach from Grandview, Missouri. Price discusses growing up in Denton, his sports background, teaching at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, becoming a football, basketball, track, and golf head coach, integration of schools, his football accomplishments, family, and his health. Documents are included in the Appendix to this interview.
- Oral History Interview with Donald E. Francisco, April 14, 2022
- Interview with Donald E. Francisco, a University of North Texas graduate and a University of North Carolina emeritus professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Francisco discusses his background, education, his experience as a lab assistant at UNT, segregation and integration in Denton history, his involvement in the civil rights movement, working at a foundry, religion, teaching at and family.
- Oral History Interview with Ann Dunnewold, April 21, 2021
- Interview with Ann Dunnewold, a psychologist from Oberlin, Ohio. Dunnewold discusses her education, struggling with postpartum depression, Postpartum Support International, psychotherapy, self-care, writing the Postpartum Survival Guide, and her practice in Dallas.
- Oral History Interview with Susan Feingold, April 14, 2021
- Interview with Dr. Susan Benjamin Feingold, a clinical psychologist from Chicago, Illinois. Feingold discusses her education, the early gender gap in her area of study, her own pregnancy, postpartum depression, starting a practice related to perinatal psychology, and the experiences she had speaking on behalf of women with postpartum psychosis.
- Oral History Interview with Barry M. Lewis, April 13, 2021
- Interview with Barry M. Lewis, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois. Lewis discusses his background in law, education, the COVID-19 Pandemic, his involvement with postpartum cases, postpartum psychoses, the DSM, and literature and treatment related to postpartum mental illnesses.
- Oral History Interview with Carol Dix, March 29, 2021
- Interview with Carol Dix, an author from London, England. Dix describes her pregnancy and giving birth experiences, Postpartum Depression, the writing she produced, her surgeries, crime, life in London, and her children.
- Oral History Interview with David K. Carlson, March 23, 2021
- Interview with David Carlson, a rancher and retired psychologist from Denton, Texas. The focus of the interview is the "Texas blackout," a weeklong power outage from February 14th to February 21st, 2021. Carlson discusses working at nursing homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic, his ranch, how they took care of the animals and themselves during the freeze, and the animal births that occurred during this time.
- Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021
- Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
- Oral History Interview with Elisabeth Brolin, March 7, 2021
- Interview with Elisabeth Brolin discussing her early life in Switzerland, immigration to the DFW area, journey to becoming a United States citizen, her discovery of her faith and of God, her life as an immigrant in the United States, her social connections, and the concept of the American Dream.
- Oral History Interview with Nancy Berchtold, March 2, 2021
- Interview with Nancy Berchtold, a women's support group leader from Pennsylvania. Berchtold discusses her pregnancy, postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression, the Pacific postpartum Support Society in Vancouver, starting the Depression After Delivery support group for women, television appearances, conferences, and change over time.
- Oral History Interview with Mari Collins, February 28, 2021
- Interview with Mari Collins, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss experiences during the "Texas Blackout," the power and water outage that happened between February 14th and 18th of 2021 due to the winter storm. Collins describes how hey took their care of their pets during that time, how they interacted with their neighbors, and how they handled lack of water and electricity.
- Oral History Interview with Susan Huston, November 2, 2020
- Interview with Susan Huston, a career freelancer from Dallas, Texas. Huston discusses her background, initial involvement in the Dallas fashion industry, life as a freelancer, starting her own company, writing a book, teaching, preparations for fashion shows, modeling, and how the fashion industry has changed over the decades.
- Oral History Interview with Tracy Hayes, October 29, 2020
- Interview with Tracy Hayes, former writer and editor for the Dallas Morning News from Dallas, Texas. Hayes discusses her background and family, change in the fashion industry over time, being hired at the Dallas Morning News, becoming the founding editor of FD Luxe, a monthly fashion magazine, covering fashion shows, and her current life and interest in fashion.
- Oral History Interview with Ignaz Gorischek, August 17, 2020
- Interview with Ignaz Gorischek, a fashion consultant from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Gorischek discusses his forty years of work in the department store industry, specifically in luxury retail, opening stores and putting on exhibits with Neiman Marcus, leaving Neiman's to work at a design firm in Dallas, and working with students at the University of North Texas.
- Oral History Interview with Ruth Ann Johnston, July 29, 2020
- Interview with Ruth Ann Johnston, a former trimmer from El Paso, Texas. Johnston describes her background and journey to becoming involved in the Dallas fashion industry, education at Texas Tech and the University of North Texas, work as a trimmer in the display department in several stores, including Neiman Marcus, the "NM Way," the AIDS epidemic and its impact on the fashion industry, her shoe collection, and the importance of developing relationships in the industry.
- Oral History Interview with Nan Alexander, July 22, 2020
- Interview with Nan (Barbara) Alexander, a former model and executive at Neiman Marcus. Alexander discusses her background, beginning work in the fashion industry as a store model, her education, working as a sample model and "Girl Friday" at Howard Wolf Inc. in Fair Park, being a sportswear model at Neiman Marcus, the layout of the store, the apparel market, and the history of fashion in the DFW area.
- Oral History Interview with Larry Leathers, July 15, 2020
- Interview with Larry Leathers, former Visual Manager at Neiman Marcus from Dallas, Texas. Leathers describes his background in theater and dance, fascination with the "frozen theater" of display mannequins, entry into the fashion industry, promotion from display creator to manager of a department to manager of a whole store, stories about working with clients, family, change over time, and the importance of remembering the heart of the fashion industry.
- Oral History Interview with Naomie Rudelson, July 13, 2020
- Interview with Naomi Rudelson, a former department store executive from New Orleans, Louisiana. Rudelson discusses involvement with the fashion industry in Dallas, starting with work as an assistant to a personal shopper and eventually becoming vice president of several different department stores. Rudelson also describes designing a curriculum for students at the University of North Texas, and the work environment at Dalton's department store, Sanger-Harris, Winkleman's in Detroit, and May Company Los Angeles.
- Oral History Interview with Wanda Franz, February 21, 2020
- Interview with Wanda Franz, developmental psychologist and anti-abortion activist. She was president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) for twenty years, between 1991-2001. In this interview she speaks especially on her research and activism around “post-abortion syndrome,” the idea abortion can lead to psychological illness, including a 1988 congressional hearing. Interviewee discusses developmental psychology, C. Everett Koop, Ronald Reagan, and Vincent Rue.
- Oral History Interview with Shoshana Bennett, February 13, 2020
- Interview with Dr. Shoshana Bennett, survivor of postpartum depression and anxiety, as well as a clinical psychologist focused on maternal mental health and maternal-infant attachment. She discusses her career as a clinical psychologist, personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, founding the support/advocacy group Postpartum Assistance for Mothers in 1987, and becoming a leader in the development of postpartum depression-specific therapy.
- Oral History Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, February 10, 2020
- Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969) and author of the postpartum chapters in the booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970). She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, and her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
- Oral History Interview with Anne Speckhard, February 6, 2020
- Interview with Dr. Anne Speckhard, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University, and director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism where she is currently studying counter-terrorism initiatives. This interview focuses on Dr. Speckhards research and work related to post-abortion stress responses. She discusses post-abortion trauma syndrome, perinatal psychology, informed consent, her position as a public figure on abortion issues, and her eventual decision to study other areas of psychology related to post-traumatic stress.
- Oral History Interview with Margaret Spinelli, January 24, 2020
- Interview with Margaret Spinelli, an author and psychiatrist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Spinelli discusses her background in nursing, founding the women's mental heath program at Columbia, her research on antepartum and postpartum depression and psychotherapy, her experience with neonaticide cases, and her book.
- Oral History Interview with Katherine L. Wisner, January 14, 2020
- Interview with Dr. Katherine L. Wisner, professor of psychiatry and director of the Asher Center for Study and Treatment of Depressive Disorders at Northwestern University, about her research and work related to perinatal mental health.
- Oral History Interview with Brenda Major, December 19, 2019
- Interview with Dr. Brenda Major, a psychologist from Truckee, California. Major discusses her background, education, the influence of the women's movement, attribution theory, abortion psychology, traumatic post-abortion syndrome, and research on postpartum depression and other mental illnesses related to pregnancy.
- Oral History Interview with Barbara L. Parry, December 10, 2019
- Interview with Dr. Barbara L. Parry, a psychiatrist from La Jolla, California. Parry discusses premenstrual psychosis, light treatment and circadian rhythms, the DSM, postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, treatments, medications, the impact of politics, and grants.
- Oral History Interview with James Robert "Bob" Richardson, December 5, 2019
- Interview with James Robert "Bob" Richardson, North Texas State College alumnus, football player, and member of the Geezles Fraternity. Richardson discusses his childhood and education in Dallas and Garland, TX; experiences as a high school football player and recruitment to North Texas in 1956; experiences with the North Texas freshman and varsity football teams; decision to join Geezles Fraternity, experiences with and lessons learned from fraternity members; experiences in North Texas business school; career as an insurance company executive, in the Marine Corps, and volunteer work as a Stephen Minister.
- Oral History Interview with Victor Rodriguez, November 21, 2019
- Interview with Dr. Victor Rodriguez spotlighting significant insights into his storied and sterling career through five time dimensions: (1) his early all-Hispanic elementary school training; (2) his continued study and budding athletic prowess in the Edna, TX, school district; (3) his Victoria Junior College athletic achievements and learning; (4) his higher education art training, Geezle membership, and track accomplishments at North Texas State College; and (5) his 37-year career as a teacher, coach, and superintendent in the San Antonio (TX) school district. Inspired by his Anglo third-grade teacher in an all-Hispanic school in Edna, TX, Victor responded to his teacher's challenge to be a civic contributor by becoming a daily bell ringer at the local Catholic church (described in detail in his book, The Bell Ringer), a job requiring him to arise at 4:30 each morning and to run two miles one way amid nipping dogs to ring the bell. This discipline and activity would tap his athletic ability later as he surfaced as a distance district winner despite running barefoot, in blue jeans, and in an oversized t-shirt. From this beginning, he would emerge as a state champion and win a track scholarship to Victoria Junior College where he would win the national junior college title; that accomplishment would earn him track scholarship offers from many top-level four-year college programs of which he selected North Texas State College to continue his running and educational pursuits. While at NTSC, he joined the Geezle Fraternity and captured attributes of group cohesion, solidarity, and mutual benefit/trust. On the cinder track, his talents earned him gold medals in national events such as the Kansas and Drake Relays. After college and military service, Victor joined the San Antonio (TX) ISD to begin a 37-year career journey, first as a classroom teacher for bilingual children, …
- Oral History Interview with Jane I. Honikman, November 13, 2019
- Interview with Jane I. Honikman, co-founder of Postpartum Education for Parents (1977) and founder of Postpartum Support International (1987), concerning her career and experiences with mental health related to childbearing and parenthood.
- Oral History Interview with Cheryl Beck, November 4, 2019
- Transcript of an interview with Cheryl Tatano Beck, distinguished professor of Nursing, whose research focuses on postpartum depression and traumatic birth. She discusses postpartum depression, perinatal health, women and mental health, maternal health, nursing, nurse-midwifery, nurse practitioners, Postpartum Support International, maternal-newborn nursing, research methods, instrument development, qualitative research, postpartum depression screening, Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS), traumatic childbirth, PTSD, and her work "Teetering on the Edge," amongst other studies.
- Oral History Interview with Alfred Edgar Greer, October 31, 2019
- Transcript of an interview with Alfred Edgar Greer, North Texas State College and Geezle fraternity member alumni. The interview traces Greer's background in Snyder, Texas; public school education in Decatur, TX; two-years of study at Decatur Baptist College, where he starred for and captained the basketball team; continued academic pursuits at North Texas State College in public school administration (BS, 1951; MS, 1954) and his membership in the Geezle Fraternity; association with the Geezles and their shared values that permeated his life; 36-year leadership and teaching career in public education in eight school districts in Texas.
- Oral History Interview with Charlie Joe Cole, Jr., October 3, 2019
- Transcript of an interview with Charlie Joe Cole Jr., conducted in Denton, Texas, for the Geezle Fraternity Oral History Project that expands on a previous interview in 1985. Cole discusses his background as an athlete at North Texas State College (UNT) playing football, his distinguished Air Force service, his membership in the Geezle Fraternity, and his career in education followed by his career as Denton County's Probation Officer.
- Oral History Interview with C. Dan Smith, September 26, 2019
- Transcript of an interview with [C.] Dan Smith, UNT Athletic Hall of Fame Member, Distinguished Alumnus of UNT and Geezle Fraternity, and Board of Regents Member (Chair for two years). Smith shares concerning his childhood in Hawkins, TX, and his public education in Lewisville, TX; Insights about his athletic football career in high school, at Texas Technological College, and North Texas State College; Recollections on graduating in business administration, beginning a career in securities, and establishing his own business, CDS Resources; Views on staying committed and involved as an alumnus; His perspectives on the role of the Geezle Fraternity and its contribution to his college education, his career progress, and his continuing loyalty to UNT.
- Oral History Interview with Nada Stotland, September 26, 2019
- Interview with Dr. Nada Stotland, psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago. Her research has focused on issues of reproduction and psychiatry especially around abortion. In addition, she was the 135th President of the American Psychiatric Association, presiding over the publication of DSM-V. She discusses post-abortion trauma syndrome, postpartum depression, women and psychiatry, hormones, and her position as a public figure on abortion issues.