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Oral History Interview with Bob and Ada Reed Brewer, March 14, 1984

Description: Interview with Ada Reed and Bob Brewer, owners and operators of A. B. McGill and Company General Merchants. In the interview, the Brewers discuss their family backgrounds, marriage, losses on charge accounts during the Great Depression, the change from clerk-service to self-service operation of the store, the credit business, purchasing clothes at the Dallas fashion market, customer interests, changes in product lines, commercial and residential growth in the Bertram area, using direct mail and… more
Date: March 14, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd; Brewer, Ada Reed & Brewer, Bob
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Oral History Interview with Bob Way, December 13, 1984

Description: Interview with college instructor and former member of the North Texas State football team Bob Way from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Way recollects some of his experiences and thoughts while he was a student at the school during the desegregation of athletics.
Date: December 13, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Way, Bob
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Oral History Interview with Charles V. Griffin, Jr., July 12, 1984

Description: Transcript of an interview with Charles V. Griffin, Jr., the founder of the Uvalde Producers Feed and Elevator Inc., from Uvalde, Texas. Griffin discusses his family background, education, and his views on the grain business.
Date: July 12, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffin, Charles V., Jr.
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Oral History Interview with Dub Brown, June 6, 1984

Description: Interview with journalist and former student of the North Texas State College Dub Brown from Waco, Texas. In the interview, Brown recollects memories from when he was a student at the college during the desegregation of athletics in 1956.
Date: June 6, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Brown, Dub
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Oral History Interview with Earl Selover, May 4, 1984

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Earl Selover. The interview includes Selover's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS Maryland during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 4, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Selover, Earl
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Oral History Interview with Elston Brooks, March 21, 1984

Description: Audio interview with Elston Brooks, a journalist who worked at the Fort Worth Press and then the Star-Telegram, discussing his memories and experiences of being a newspaperman during the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. Brooks also discusses his love of music and performance.
Date: March 21, 1984
Creator: Bowen, Alice Anita & Brooks, Elston
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Oral History Interview with Frank Klein, December 20, 1984

Description: Interview with business executive and former member of the North Texas State football team Frank Klein from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Way recollects some of his experiences and thoughts while he was a student at the school during the desegregation of athletics.
Date: December 20, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Klein, Frank
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Oral History Interview with Fred Graham, March 16, 1984

Description: Interview with former sports information director at North Texas State University Fred Graham. In the interview, Graham discusses his experiences and thoughts while he was an assistant in the News and Information Office during the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: March 16, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Graham, Fred
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Oral History Interview with Fred McCain, April 2, 1984

Description: Interview with former football coach and director of athletics at the North Texas State University Fred McCain, from Denton, Texas. In the interview, McCain describes his experiences from when he worked at the college during the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics.
Date: April 2, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & McCain, Fred
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Oral History Interview with Harold Galloway, March 17, 1984

Description: Interview with Judge Harold Galoway, an army veteran from Yantis, Texas. This interview contains his recollections as a World War II medical corpsman in Europe. Army life and the health problems of soldiers are discussed.
Date: March 17, 1984
Creator: Gilbreath, David W. & Galloway, Harold
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Oral History Interview with J. C. Matthews, 1984

Description: Interview with former president of North Texas State College and North Texas State University J. C. Matthews from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Matthews recollects some of his experiences and thoughts as a child and while he was a student at school. He also comments on several personal experiences as a teacher, including when he was appointed as a laboratory school teacher, a curriculum committee member, and the dean of the college of education. He also talks about the desegregation of North… more
Date: July 26, 1984
Creator: Adams, Wayne; Blair, Witt; Jenkins, Floyd; Kingery, Dwane; Marquis, R. L.; Mohat, Imogen et al.
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Oral History Interview with J. C. Matthews, April 4, 1984

Description: Interview with former president of the North Texas State College and the North Texas State University, J. C. Matthews from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Matthews shares his thoughts and experiences concerning the desegregation of intercollegiate athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: April 4, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Jenkins, Floyd & Matthews, J. C.
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Oral History Interview with Jack Gray, May 30, 1984

Description: Interview with Judge Jack Gray of the 211th district court in Denton County, Texas. In the interview, Judge Gray expresses his thoughts and memories of the desegregation of athletics at the North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: May 30, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Gray, Jack
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Oral History Interview with John Korba, May 3, 1984

Description: Interview with Navy veteran John Korba. The interview includes Korba's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 3, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Korba, John
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Oral History Interview with John Leedom, February 10, 1984

Description: Transcript of an interview with Senator John Leedom, a businessman and a Republican member of the Texas Senate from Dallas, Texas. In this interview Leedom discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-eighth Legislature.
Date: February 10, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Leedom, John N., 1921-2011
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Oral History Interview with John N. Delia, May 6, 1984

Description: Interview with Navy veteran John N. Delia. The interview includes Delia's personal experiences aboard YSD-19 (Yard Salvage Derrick) during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 6, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Delia, John N.
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth Bahnsen, March 5, 1984

Description: Interview with former assistant football coach at North Texas State University Kenneth Bahnsen from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Bahnsen discusses his recollections about the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: March 5, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Bahnsen, Kenneth
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Oral History Interview with Nipawan Teepanont, February 17, 1984

Description: Audio interview with Nipawan Teepanont, a graduate student from Thailand studying education at North Texas State University. Teepanont discusses his background, comparisons between education in Thailand and the United States, adjusting, the international community at the university, and his job.
Date: February 17, 1984
Creator: Bohlcke, Diane & Teepanont, Nipawan
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Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Mauzy, March 9, 1984

Description: Interview with former Democratic Texas State Senator Oscar H. Mauzy, who was an attorney from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes the Senator's personal views and experiences as a member of the Sixty-eighth Legislature. The interview also includes the Senator's thoughts on fellow politicians, midnight appointments, pay raises for teachers, taxation, appropriations, and the Jurisprudence Committee.
Date: June 12, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Mauzy, Oscar H.
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Oral History Interview with Pete Evans, March 7, 1984

Description: Transcript of an interview with Pete Evans, a labor representative from Hamby, Texas, concerning his experiences while employed by the National Youth Administration during the 1930s, one of the New Deal relief agencies established during the Great Depression.
Date: March 7, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Evans, Peter, 1923-
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Oral History Interview with Russell R. Argabrite, May 3, 1984

Description: Interview with Navy veteran Russell R. Argabrite. The interview includes Argabrite's personal experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: May 3, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Argabrite, Russell R.
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Oral History Interview with Ruth Roach Salmon, November 7, 1984

Description: Interview with Ruth Roach Salmon concerning her experiences as a rancher and rodeo performer in Nocona, Texas. Salmon discusses her family background; her work as an extra on a movie western in Excelsior Springs, Missouri; her marriage to Bryant Roach; her employment as a trick rider for Joe Miller's 101 Ranch in Oklahoma; the Miller Brothers' wild west shows; her rodeo tour in Europe in 1914; and her participation in Tom Burnett's European tour in 1924. She also talks about her marriage to Fre… more
Date: November 7, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd Harold & Salmon, Ruth Scantlin Roach, 1896-1986
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Oral History Interview with Urban J. Endres, April 4, 1984

Description: Interview with Urban J. Endres, a businessman from Muenster, Texas, about the period of prohibition of alcohol and bootlegging in the United States, his memories of the local option election of 1959, and his experience establishing his own beer distributorship.
Date: April 4, 1984
Creator: McDaniel, Robert Wayne & Endres, Urban J.
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Oral History Interview with Velma Mynier, October 19, 1984

Description: Transcript of an interview with Velma Mynier, owner and administrator of South Park Manor Nursing Homes. Mynier discusses her family background and shares her experiences on nursing home chain operations and the rewards of working in the nursing home profession as owner and administrator of South Park Manor Nursing Homes in Corpus Christi and Refugio, Texas.
Date: October 19, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Mynier, Velma
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