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From there, we’ll dissect the whole process of documen- WEDNESDAY tary production: planning; writing and evaluating treat- ments; funding; scriptwriting; textual and aural research; processing and restoring sound; copyright, releases, and CONFERENCE REGISTRATION other legal matters; narrative and narration; mixing and MEETING ROOM FOYER 8:00AM-4:30PM digital audio editing; and final production and distribu- tion. 1 Special attention will be paid to recording equipment, WORKSHOP: Getting Started with Oral History: recording standards, digital processing, and editing, and An Introductory Workshop other technical skills needed to produce quality documen- CONGRESSIONAL 9:00AM-4:00PM taries at reasonable cost. Many of these skills are also Lunch break: 12:00–1:15PM useful for Web-based and multi-media oral history projects. Enrollment is limited to 40 participants. Join Laura Kamoie of the American University, Depart- ment of History, for a workshop on the basics of oral Cost: $55 members/$65 non-members. Advance registra- history. This full day workshop will explore, in-depth, tion required. such topics as: planning and coordinating a project; effective interview techniques; equipment needs; legal and 3 ethical concerns; processing and preservation strategies; and potential final products. The format will be interactive WORKSHOP: Field Recording Aural Histories in and will include hands-on exercises, as well as discussions the Digital Age about oral history methodology. Enrollment is limited to JUDICIARY SUITE 9:00AM-12:00PM 24 participants. This workshop offers an introduction to digital field Cost: $55 members/$65 non-members. Advance registra- recorders, microphones, and related recording equipment. tion required. Participants will learn techniques for creating and interviewing for non-print media; the capturing of sound 2 objects and soundscapes, as well as recording the human voice; and the comparative strengths and weaknesses of WORKSHOP: Oral History and Radio Documen- digital and analog equipment. Although the workshop will tary Production focus on audio field recording, it will also include a brief CABINET SUITE 9:00AM-4:00PM introduction to digital video. Workshop participants are Lunch break: 12:00-1:15PM encouraged to bring their own field recorders, micro- phones, and recorded interviews for comparisons of Workshop specialists, Gerald Zahavi and Susan sound quality. McCormick from the Department of History, University of Albany, begin this full-day workshop by examining the This workshop facilitator is Charles Hardy, Professor of definition and range of audio documentaries, and how History, West Chester University, an award-winning oral history has been used in documentary production in documentary producer with more than twenty years of the last half-century. We’ll listen to selections from a experience in oral history and sound documentary variety of NPR and independent works (mainly, but not production. exclusively, with a community focus) - works such as Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- “Rosewood Reborn” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” - tion required. as well as classics from a half-century ago. A few listening exercises will follow to enhance participants’ acute 4 listening skills that will help answer important questions for the participants. How are aural “scenes” created? What ADVANCED WORKSHOP: Historical Preservation, makes them compelling and effective? What structures are Restoration, and Reformatting of Audio/Visual most effective to communicate particular ideas and Materials feelings? How can small editing decisions have powerful JUDICIARY SUITE 1:00-3:30PM and emotional impact? (workshop listing continues on next page)

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This workshop will present an introduction to the need evidence in court. Participants will also have ample time for, and process of, historical preservation, restoration and to ask questions that are specific to their practice or reformatting of audio/visual materials. Handy techniques program. will be learned for projects that have already been The workshop facilitator is John Neuenschwander, completed as well as those that are yet to be recorded. Department of History, Carthage College, who is the Such techniques are especially useful because after a author of the Oral History Association’s legal publication, limited period of time, the original audio or visual Oral History and the Law (3rd edition, 2002). materials that are used to record your invaluable oral histories deteriorate and can be lost forever, unless the Note: This workshop provides an academic discussion of information can be preserved and the shelf-life extended the law as it relates to oral history and is not intended to by reformatting the original A/V material. provide direct legal advice or counsel to any of the participants. This presentation regarding restoration and reformatting includes: raising awareness for the need to restore and Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- reformat oral history materials for historical preservation tion required. and archiving; the process by which the recording media works; and archival formats and their respective shelf-life. Kk Other topics include the selection of audio and/or video materials to use for reformatting; analog vs. digital tape formats for historical preservation; the process of A/V RECEPTION: Regional Presidents No-host tape reformatting; care and handling of original and Reception reformatted materials; and, the basic process of restoring HOTEL LOBBY 5:30PM audio formats. Finally, we will explore how future Meet up with OHMAR President Roger Horowitz and technologies will effect audio and/or videotape restoration other regional oral history organization execs for an and preservation projects. This workshop will be interac- opportunity to get together for food, talk, and spirits at a tive and encourages participants to discuss their concerns surprise location. Please indicate on the reservation form regarding their individual collections. if you intend to join us so we can reserve the proper space. Workshop facilitator, Michael Vail Blum, is an electrical This will be within walking distance of the hotel. engineer with a specialty in audio design and acoustics. He has designed more than fifty recording studios in his twenty years experience. Presently he is working as an independent audio consultant to several major nonprofits, THURSDAY museums, and corporations. In his own Los Angeles recording studio, he works with many Grammy CONFERENCE REGISTRATION award-winning recording artists. MEETING ROOM FOYER 7:30AM-4:30PM Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- COMMUNITY SHOWCASE tion required. HAVERFORD/BACCARAT 10:00AM-5:00PM EXHIBITS 5 CABINET/JUDICIARY 9:00AM-5:00PM ADVANCED WORKSHOP: Oral History and the Law CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:30-10:00AM SEVERN/POTOMAC SUITE 1:00-4:00PM This workshop will provide participants with a deeper 6 understanding of the numerous ways in which legal issues and oral history intersect. In addition to providing an Community Responses to Poverty: Testimonies of update on the latest legal developments, it will present Injustice and Resistance case studies and hypothetical situations to illustrate and EMBASSY explain key issues involving legal releases, defamation, Chair and Commentator: Carol B. Stack, University of copyright, Internet access, and the use of oral history as California, Berkeley

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Lisa G. Hazirjian, Duke University Gregory R. Zieren, Austin Peay State University Taking Care of Our Own: Networks of Mutual Assistance Conducting Oral Histories in a Military Community and Working-Class African American Communities in Rosemary F. Crockett, Tuskegee Airmen Wives Tell Their Depression-Era Rocky Mount, Stories Eve S. Weinbaum, University of Massachusetts Building Distaff Communities at Tuskegee Army Airfield Building a Movement for Economic Justice: Labor- Katrina R. Mason, Author Community Coalitions Fight Plant Closings Children of Los Alamos Mark Peel, Monash University Stephen P. Smith, Middle State University Wars of Words: Narratives of Injustice and Hope Community Ties Among World War II Veterans of the 101st 7 Oral Histories in the West Piedmont: Mills, 10 Music, and More FILM SESSION: White Snow (Transnational PATUXENT SUITE workers) Chair: Rebecca J. Bailey, State University of West Georgia AMBASSADOR Teresa L. Beyer, State University of West Georgia Commentator: Janelle Rodriquez Leisure Builds Community: A Case Study of Rural Banning Mill 11 James Michael Buck, State University of West Georgia “We’ve Lived ‘Round Carrollton All Our Lives and Never Myrtle Beach, : Creating an Image, Made a Dime!”: Hillbilly Music and Community in the Building a Community West Georgia Piedmont DIPLOMAT Erin Brasfield, State University of West Georgia Chair: Barbara F. Stokes, University of South Carolina Diversity Through Education: “A Fountain of Life” at a Cathy Wiggins, Chapin Memorial Library College in the Country The Role of Heritage in Shaping Community Identity Barbara F. Stokes, University of South Carolina 8 Transforming a Handful of Summer Cottages into a Dynamic Community Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts: The Road to Understanding Culture and Jenifer Powers, University of South Carolina Community Waves of Change: Adapting to Economic, Social, and CONGRESSIONAL Natural Impacts Chair: Barbara Slavin, Morse Institute Library 12 Kathleen N. Walcott, Ethnic Foundation Black History: Lost and Found MEETING: H-Oralhist Board and Editors Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Tufts University EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM The Evolution of the Latino Community in Cambridge, Massachusetts 13 Sarah Boyer, Cambridge Historical Commission MEETING: Nominating Committee East Cambridge Neighborhoods: A Century of Transition POTOMAC SUITE 9 BREAK 10:00-10:30AM Oral Histories of World War II SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE Chair: Ruth Cary, Widener University

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS Gloria H. Cuádraz, Arizona State University, West Childhood Narratives of Berkeley’s Chicana/o “Political 10:30AM-12:00PM Generation”: Myths, Memories, and Interpretations Nadine Wilmot, University of California, Berkeley 14 Leah McGarrigle, University of California, Berkeley “Going to the Territory”: Life Interviews with African Oral Histories in the Age of Technology American Faculty at the University of California, EMBASSY Berkeley Chair: Jeff Charnley, Michigan State University 17 Jacob J. Podber, Southern Illinois University Creating Community on the NET: An Oral History of Community and Memory Internet Usage by the Tri-Racial Melungeon Community SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE of Appalachia Chair: Linda E. Norton, University of California, Berkley Mary A. Larson, University of Nevada, Reno “Get Back to Where You Once Belonged”: Returning Oral Steve Estes, Sonoma State University Histories to Communities Gender and Memory in Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Movement Barbara Truesdell, Indiana University Virtual Archives Serving Virtual Communities: Creating Mark Klempner, Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica an Online Database for an Oral History Archive’s Taking History in Their Own Hands: The Monteverde Holdings Using Encoded Archival Description Jubilee Family Album Anne B.W. Effland, U.S. Dept of Agriculture 15 Valerie Grim, Indiana University Connecting the Past, Present, and Future: Oral History in ROUNDTABLE: Public Oral History: Training an African American Farming Community Community Historians PATUXENT SUITE 18 Chair: David Dunaway, University of New Mexico The Changing Face of Race Relations Within David Dunaway, University of New Mexico Maryland Communities: Education, Civil Rights, Kitty Oliver, Atlantic University and the Workplace Calinda N. Lee, Independent Historian and Consultant POTOMAC SUITE Rose T. Díaz, University of New Mexico Chair: Alphine Jefferson, College of Wooster Karen Olson, Community College of Baltimore County 16 “They opened a whole new world to me”: Steelworker Collegiality Across the Racial Divide Institutional Change and Individual Trajectories in JoAnn O. Robinson, Morgan State University the Post Civil Rights Era Gertrude S. Williams and the Barclay School CONGRESSIONAL Community, 1969-1998 Chair: Richard Candida-Smith, University of California, Bruce A. Thompson, Frederick Community College Berkeley Juanita Jackson Mitchell: Missionary for Civil Rights Celia Alvarez, California State University, Monterey Bay Intersecting Lives: Puerto Rican Women as Community Intellectuals Rina Benmayor, California State University, Monterey Bay First Generation College Students on the Central Coast: Educational Aspirations and Institutional Commitments

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19 Justine Richardson, MATRIX, Michigan State University Quilt Treasurers: Developing Web-based Oral History World War II Communities in Transition Documentary DIPLOMAT David Robinson, MATRIX, Michigan State University Chair: Andrew Russell, TVI Community College C. Scott Pennington, MATRIX, Michigan State University African Digital Library-West African Resources: Multi- Polina E. Ilieva, Stanford University lingual Oral History Test Beds Community in Exile: Refugee Camp in Tubabao-History and Legacy 23 Warren S. Nishimoto, University of Hawaii Colonizing Pacific Islands, 1935-1942: Native Hawaiian ROUNDTABLE: Reaching Out, Reaching Back, and Men and Their Dual Roles as Colonists and Americans Reaching Forward: The State University Leslie Jo Kelley, Free-lance writer, editor T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History’s Public Constructing a European Jewish Community Outreach Fosters (re)Discovery and Preservation of in Shanghai Louisiana’s Communities’ Voices CONGRESSIONAL 20 Chair: Mary H. Price, Louisiana State University Toby Daspit, Western Michigan University FILM SESSION: “Colors of Courage”: Sons of New McKinley High School Classroom Oral History Project Mexico, Prisoners of Japan (Bataan) Enhances Community Identity in South Baton Rouge, AMBASSADOR Louisiana Commentator: Jacobo D. Baca, University of New Mexico Dominica D. Ramirez, Louisiana State University Reaching Back and Reaching Out: The Williams Center 21 for Oral History’s Partnership with the Canary Islander’s Heritage Society of Louisiana MEETING: Folklore Affinity Group EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM Matthew Mullenix, Louisiana State University Web Pages and Virtual Communities Lunch on Your Own 12:00-1:00PM Jennifer M. Abraham, Louisiana State University CONCURRENT SESSIONS 1:00-2:30 PM Navigating Notions of Heritage and Promoting Preserva- tion: The Role of LSU Williams Center for Oral History’s Public Outreach Programs in the Development of Local 22 Oral History Projects Across Louisiana Online Communities of Oral History and Narra- 24 tive: Five Years of Digital Oral History Projects at MATRIX Growing Community: Agriculture, Counterculture, EMBASSY and Sustainability Chair: Mark L. Kornbluh, MATRIX, Michigan State PATUXENT SUITE University Chair and Commentator: Lu Ann Jones, East Carolina Dean Rehberger, MATRIX, Michigan State University University Michael Fegan, MATRIX, Michigan State University Anu Dudley, University of Maine Delivering Resources Through A Digital Repository: Growing Community: The MOFGA Oral History Project Research &Development James Moreira, University of Maine Peter Knupfer, MATRIX, Michigan State University Value Added?: Development Narratives and Tradition in Digital Possibilities and Living Memories: Cultural Nova Scotian Agriculture Heritage Partnerships in Post-Apartheid South Africa Andrew Dunar, University of , Huntsville The Farm: An Oral History of a Hippie Community

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25 Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Rutgers University, Newark Post Colonial Conflict and Community in a U.S. Urban Oral History in the Department of Defense Enclave: Brazilian and Portuguese Immigrants in SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE Newark, New Jersey Chair: Rebecca Welch, Historical Office-Secretary of 28 Defense Stephen J. Lofgren, Center of Military History FILM SESSION: Intolerable Burden (Segregation, Gary Solis, U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center Desegregation, Resegregation) AMBASSADOR Edward Marolda, Naval Historical Center Commentator: Constance Curry, Producer, Emory An overview of ongoing biographical, topical, combat University documentation and end-of-tour programs that go into writing service histories, and that can influence policy Moderator: Todd Moye, National Park Service making. 29 26 MEETING: State and Regional Forum Probing the Pols: Oral History and State Political EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM Process COFFEE BREAK 2:30-3:00PM POTOMAC SUITE WATERFORD/LALIQUE Chair: Ronald E. Marcello, University of North 30 Laura McCreery, University of California, Berkeley Newcomers and Lame Ducks: Oral History and Legisla- PLENARY KEYNOTE tive Term Limits WATERFORD/LALIQUE 3:00-3:45PM Samuel B. Hand, University of Vermont Barbara Franco, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., Perceptions, or How the Kennedy Election Transformed President and CEO Vermont Politics The City Museum of Washington D.C.: Giving Voice to a Michael Pierce, University of Community’s History Dixie Democrats: Oral History and Southern Politics BREAK 3:45-4:00PM Commentator: Charles T. Morrissey, Baylor University College of Medicine CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4:00-5:30PM 27 31

Transnational Communities st DIPLOMAT African Oral History in the 21 Century: Challenges and Promise Chair: Willie L. McKether, Wayne State University POTOMAC SUITE Maija V. Hinkle, American Latvian Association Chair: Mark L. Kornbluh, MATRIX-Michigan State Ethnic Communities and an Exile Identity Among University American Latvians Narissa Ramdhani, University of Durban-Westville/ Eileen J. Findlay, American University Documentation Centre and ANC Archives, South Africa “I Thought I Was Finding My Homeland, But Instead Technology and the Production of Alternative Research They Took Away My Nation!”: Puerto Rican Emigrant Tools Through International Partnerships Identity Collisions and Community Creation, 1960-1980 Sean Field, University of Cape Town/Centre for Popular Memory-South Africa A Sense of Loss: Removals, Memories, and Resilient Lives in South Africa

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David Robinson, Michigan State University 34 C. Scott Pennington, Michigan State University Resurrecting Oral Narratives from the Senegal River Making a Place for Themselves: Women and Valley Military Culture During World War II and the Early Cold War Era (1942-1953) 32 SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE “We Are Many, We Are One”: The New South Voices Chair: Judy Barrett Litoff, Bryant College Community Partnership Evelyn M. Cherpak, Naval War College AMBASSADOR Women and Military Culture: The WAVES in Chair: Patricia Ryckman, University of North Carolina at World War II Charlotte Michele Kelly, Battleship Cove June A. Blotnick, Wilmore Neighborhood Association “He Said, She Said”: Changing Dynamics Between Men Cultivating Common Ground: Seniors and Teens Gather and Women During World War II a Harvest of Stories from the Neighborhood Community Mary Jo Binker, The Women in Military Service for Garden America Memorial Foundation, Inc. Gabriel Cumming, Catawba Lands Conservancy, They Also Served: The Military Women of the Early Cold University of North Carolina War Era, 1945-1953 Perspectives on Land: Rural North Carolinians Explore Their Changing Communities and Environments 35 Lenora Stein, Carolina Agency for Jewish Education Agency and Identity: A Community of Voices Charlotte: A New South Jewish Community Records the EMBASSY Past to See Its Future Chair: John Wolford, Missouri Historical Society 33 Biruta Abuls, American-Latvian Association Creation of an Ethnic Community “CIEMS LATVIJA” ROUNDTABLE: Music and the Construction of (Latvia Village) Near Three Rivers, Michigan Identity in the Post-Freedom African Diaspora Michael Daher, Henry Ford Community College CONGRESSIONAL Arab and Muslim in Detroit Chair and Commentator: Clyde Woods, University of Peter Geller, Inter-Universities North, Canada Maryland “Many Stories, Many Voices”: Community and Aborigi- Gisèle-Audrey Mills, University of Maryland nal Oral History in Northern Manitoba Damien Schnyder, University of Maryland Elaine Thomopoulos, Berrien County William E. Smith, University of Maryland Historical Association Greeks of Berrien County, Michigan Rachelle Williams, University of Maryland Doctoral student research on the role of African American 36 musicians, singers, lyricists and producers in building communities of consciousness in the United States and Building, Shaping, and Maintaining Community Brazil during the last two decades. Participants explore the DIPLOMAT efforts of artists and groups with a view into their com- Chair: Donita Moorhus, Independent Consultant, munity experiences while exploring social movements, R& D Associates race, gender, and class inequities. tudents are particularly interested in Hip Hop and Jazz artists—their audiences, Phyllis Palmer, George Washington University critics and industries. Fighting Block-busting and Building Interracial Com- munity: Shepherd Park/Tacoma, D.C., 1959-1975 (session listing continues on next page)

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Julie L. Davis, Arizona State University Survival Schools and the American Indian Community FRIDAY in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1968-2002 Dana Lanier Schaffer, American University CONFERENCE REGISTRATION “Soul Brother” Shattered: How Three Communities MEETING ROOM FOYER 7:30AM-4:30PM Shaped the 1968 Washington, D.C. Riots EXHIBITS 37 CABINET/JUDICIARY SUITE 9:00AM-5:00PM NEWCOMER’S BREAKFAST Combat Documentation: Interviewing Under Fire OLD GEORGETOWN 7:00-8:30AM PATUXENT SUITE Chair: David F. Winkler, Naval Historical Foundation CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:30-10:00AM Major David Crist, Marine Corps Historical Center Special Forces Against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda 39 Colonel Richard Stewart, Center of Military History Special Forces in Northern Afghanistan FILM SESSION: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property Commander Dan Struble, Naval Academy Foundation FELLINI’S BAR Warships in the Indian Ocean, Missions Over Afghani- stan, and Camp Kandahar Chair: Anna Bibbs-Rodriguez, North Star Commons Commentator: Kenneth S. Greenberg, Suffolk University 38 40 MEETING: Graduate Student Affinity Group EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM Using Oral History to Create Community in the Are you a graduate student doing or thinking about oral Undergraduate Classroom: Chicago Stories history? Come and meet other doctoral and masters CONGRESSIONAL students to discuss your research, ideas, and experiences. Chair: Alan Harris Stein, Goldring Woldenberg Institute In this open-ended format, we’ll learn from each other of Southern Jewish Life and meet new colleagues. Erin McCarthy, Columbia College, Chicago “Think You Hate History?: Try Oral History 101”—or, Kk How I Learned to Teach History at an Arts College Marie Scatena, Chicago Historical Society Russell Lewis, Chicago Historical Society Dinner on Your Own Teaching Terkel: Resources in the Classroom and PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION Community at the Chicago Historical Society City Museum of Washington, D.C. 7:00-9:00 PM Dean Rehberger, Michigan State University Opened to the public in May 2003, this state-of-the-art Michael Fegan, Michigan State University museum is all about Washington communities – the Studs Terkel: The Website “Conversations with America” neighborhoods, the people, the buildings, the people. Commentator: Barry A. Lanman, President, Consortium of Come see its exhibits and experience its use of oral history Oral History Educators and the Martha Ross Center for to tell the stories of how Washington’s diverse residents Oral History have created communities. Co-sponsored by the Association of Oral History Shuttle bus will be provided at the hotel or use the Educators Metro. First bus will leave from the hotel at 6PM—Last bus departs from Museum at 9:15 PM.

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41 Cristina R. Nelson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Community Institutions: Oral History in First Narratives of Work and Care: Nurses Aides in the Stages Segregated South DIPLOMAT Katie A. Otis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chair: Patricia Skidmore, Canadian Oral History Labor’s Bedside Manner: Oral Histories of One Nursing Association/Brescia University College Home’s Unionization Campaign Ariel Beaujot, University of Toronto 44 The Founding Years of the John Gordon Hospice for AIDS of London, Ontario Voices Across the Land: Oral History Throughout Jaclyn Hamilton, Ulster University, Northern Ireland the National Park Service The Formative Years of a Police/Social Agency of Ontario AMBASSADOR Larissa Hachinski Chair: Mehmed Ali, Lowell National Historical Park, The Roberts Research Institute Janet McDonnell, National Park Service An Overview of Oral History Issues Within the National 42 Park Service ROUNDTABLE: How Integration Creates a New Todd Moye, National Park Service Community Jo Urion, Keweenaw National Historical Park SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE New Voices in the National Park Service Oral History Program Chair: Betsy Brinson, Oral History Commission Charles S. Padgett, University of Michigan-Dearborn 45 Hidden from History, Shielded from Harm: Desegrega- tion in 1954, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama ROUNDTABLE: Documenting September 11, 2001: Tamara Kennelly, Polytechnic Institute Interpreting the Past-Two Years Later-Part I Taking Steps: The Black Community Invents Itself CARTIER/TIFFANY SALON Brian J. Daugherity, College of William and Mary Co-chairs: Mary Marshall Clark, & From Desegregation to Integration: The Hidden History Jessica Wiederhorn, Columbia University of the Green v. New Kent County School Board Supreme Gerry Albarelli, Columbia University Court Decision Political Aftermath on New York City Immigrant Pamela C. Grundy University of North Carolina at Communities Chapel Hill Ann L. Cvetkovich, University of Texas, Austin A Sense of Pride: Segregation, Desegregation and Memorial Issues and New York City Oral History Projects Community at West Charlotte High School Brien R.Williams, American Red Cross Oral Histories of Red Cross Volunteers and Staff 43 Laurie Mercier, Washington State University,Vancouver Healing Voices: Oral Histories of Long Term Care Continuing Education Students Interview Peace Activists EMBASSY Robert Courtney Smith, Barnard College Chair: Janna Dieckmann, University of North Carolina at September 11 Narrative and Memory Project Chapel Hill Robert Black, Oachita Baptist University Janna Dieckmann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Interviews with Washington, D.C., Politicians and Hill Their Staffs Shadow Voices: Shedding Light on Long Term Care- Karen Harper, Independent Scholar Givers and Their Patients Interviewing Airline and Travel Workers This panel is 2 sessions, back-to-back, with a break in between.

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46 Sandy Polishuk, Portland State University Secrets, Lies, and Misremembering: Take II MEETING: Community History Affinity Group Catherine Fosl, University of Louisville POTOMAC SUITE When Subjects Talk Back: Writing Anne Braden’s Life-in- Progress 47 Deborah A. Gershenowitz, New York University Press Negotiating Voices: Biography and the Curious Triangle MEETING: Diversity Committee Between Subject, Author, and Editor EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM Commentator: Kathryn L. Nasstrom, University of San BREAK 10:00-10:30AM Francisco CONCURRENT SESSIONS 51 10:30AM–12:00PM Women at War: Wives, WACS, and Nurses During the Cold War 48 DIPLOMAT FILM SESSION: “A Separate Place”: The Schools Chair and Commentator: Lee V. Chambers-Schiller, P.S. du Pont Built University of Colorado FELLINI’S BAR Elizabeth I. Brown, University of Colorado Chair: Roger Horowitz, Hagley Museum and Library All in the Same Boat: Communities of Cold War Military Wives Jeanne Nutter, Executive Producer, Bloomfield College Kim L. Heikkila, Minneapolis Community and Technol- Alonzo Crawford, Director, Howard University ogy College Nothing Except an American: Searching for Community 49 in the Women’s Army Corps in the Vietnam War Era The Scientific Community Laureen A. Otto, New York University AMBASSADOR Combat Nursing Memories Over Time Chair: Peggy Dillon, National Institute of Health 52 Peggy Dillon, National Institute of Health A Community of Science: Lessons Learned from Inter- ROUNDTABLE: Linking Curriculum and Commu- viewing Notable National Institute of Health Researchers nity in the Pre-Collegiate Classroom Victoria A. Harden, National Institute of Health CONGRESSIONAL Following a Story as it Developed: AIDS History Chair: Glenn Whitman, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Interviews at the National Institute of Health Glenn Whitman, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Adrian Kinnane, History Associates, Inc. The Student Oral Historian: Ten Years Chronicling the The Organizational Context: Themes Within American Century Institutional and Professional Settings Mara Waldhorn, Dickinson College An Oral History of the All American Girls Professional 50 Baseball League and A Peak of Action: An Oral History of the Movements and Protests of the 1960s and 1970s Hearing Lives, Writing Lives: The Oral History Based Biography Jeremy E. Brown, University of Delaware SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE www.doingoralhistory.org Chair: Linda Shopes, Pennsylvania Historical and Mu- Ken Woodard, Connelly School of the Holy Child seum Commission Students, Oral History, and Documentary Films

10 Oral History Association Friday Program Schedule 53 Kk Memory, Material Culture, and Oral History EMBASSY Chair: Anene Ejikeme, Barnard College/Columbia POGUE AWARD – Pete Daniel University Nicholas P. Ciotola, Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History LUNCHEON 12:00-1:30PM Center HAVERFORD/BACCARAT If These Artifacts Could Talk: One Museum’s Use of Oral History to Document Immigrant Material Culture 57 John Foot, University College, London Memory and the End of Community: An Oral History PLENARY SESSION Roundtable 1:30-3:00PM Film Project on Milan, Italy WATERFORD/LALIQUE Speaker 3:00-3:30PM ROUNDTABLE: Oral History at the National 54 Museum of American History Chair: John A. Fleckner, National Museum of American ROUNDTABLE: Documenting September 11, 2001: History Interpreting the Past-Two Years Later-Part II CARTIER/TIFFANY SALON Paula Johnson, National Museum of American History Co-chairs: Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University & Rayna Green, National Museum of American History Jessica Wiederhorn, Columbia University Monica M. Smith, National Museum of American History Participants: See Session 45 for participants SPEAKER Introduction: Rina Benmayor, California State University, 55 Monterey Bay Descubriendo Historias Comunitarias en Chicano/ Víctor Casaus Sánchez, Award-winning Director, Docu- Latino California (Discovering Community Histo- mentarian, Writer, Poet and Founder of the Centro ries in Chicano/Latino California) Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, an independent non- POTOMAC SUITE profit organization for writers and artists in Cuba. Memory, Testimony, and Oral History: A Shared History Chair: Tomás F. Sandoval, California State University, Monterey Bay BREAK 3:30-4:00PM Carlos R. Guerrero, Los Angeles City College CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4:00-5:30PM The Voices of the United Farmworkers of America Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Los Angeles 58 Narratives of Community Destruction: CURAS and San FILM SESSION: Unchained Memories (WPA Slave Francisco Queer Latina and Latino Struggle for AIDS Narratives) Prevention FELLINI’S BAR Denise M. Sandoval, California State University, Northridge 59 Cruising Through East Los Angeles: Chicano Lowrider Stories Voices From the Earth and the Moon: The Commu- nity of Moonwalkers 56 CONGRESSIONAL Chair: Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian Institution MEETING: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Affinity (session listing continues on next page) Group EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM

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Sandra L. Johnson, Veridian Information Technology Faculty: Joseph Gaines, Boricua College Support, Luis Esquilin, Boricua College Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Veridian Information Technology Students: Max Caicedo, Boricua College Support, Houston Luis Cabrera, Boricua College Rebecca Wright, Veridian Information Technology Iris Crespo, Boricua College Support, Houston Carmen Molina, Boricua College The Johnson Space Center Oral History Project provides This panel discusses “Colloquium” at Boricua College as a details regarding the institution, culture, and neighbor- model for building community. Please join us following hoods created in the 1960s along the Texas Gulf Coast and this session for a reception in HAVERFORD/BACCARAT. how that community continues to thrive today. Panel and reception sponsored by the OHA Diversity Committee. All are welcome to attend. 60 Oral History and Public Broadcasting: Document- 63 ing a Fragmented Community Creating Group Identity DIPLOMAT AMBASSADOR Chair: Dale Treleven, Independent Scholar Chair: Allison Weiss, Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum Thomas Connors, University of Maryland Jane L. Hegstrom, College of Notre Dame of Maryland Origins of Public Radio and Television: Dueling Families Life Below the Stairs: The Grandhouses of Westminster Mike McCauley, University of Maine Between the Wars Twenty-Five Years of Public Radio Esther Ehrlich, University of California, Berkeley Robert W. Morrow, University of Maryland The Disability Community: Towards a Definition Sesame Street and the Reform of Children’s Television Mary E. Odem, Emory University Guatemalan Mayan Migrants in the New South 61 “Yes, There Was History Before You Were Born”: 64 The Veterans’ History Project Narrative, Memory, and Place: Forming the Con- SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE gregation of Divine Providence in Texas Chair: Tim Schurtter, Library of Congress POTOMAC SUITE Kathryn Lerch, Park Tudor School Chair: Maria Eva Flores, Our Lady of the Lake University Park Tudor School’s Legacy Initiative Project and the Margit Nagy, Our Lady of the Lake University Role of Veteran Oral Histories An American Born Leader: Responding to Post World Joseph Bles, Young Marines National Headquarters War II Changes in Texas Gary Stanton, Mary Washington College Christine Morkovsky, Congregation and Divine The Veterans’ Oral History Project at the Library of Providence Congress American Folklife Center engages classroom and Memory, Place, and Providence: Driving Forces for youth groups to create American historical documents. Sustaining a Religious Community This panel highlights three of its successful programs. Maria Eva Flores, Our Lady of the Lake University Narrative, Memory, Place, and Identity in Women’s 62 Religious Community ROUNDTABLE: Building Community Within the 65 Walls of a College EMBASSY MEETING: 2004 OHA Program Committee Chair: Nilsa Olivero, Boricua College EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM

12 Oral History Association Friday & Saturday Program Schedule Kk CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:30-10:00AM 67 ALL PARTICIPANTS RECEPTION Sponsored by the Diversity Committee Institutional Cultures: Documenting Community HAVERFORD/BACCARAT 5:30-6:30PM Change EMBASSY D.C. Night Tour 7:45–11:00PM Chair: Mary Sterner Lawson, Albany State University DINE-AROUNDS 6:00PM Lucinda McCray Beier, Illinois State University Sign up sheets will be available throughout the day at the Hospitals, Health Culture, and Gender in Bloomington, OHA conference information booth. Illinois, 1880-1980 THEATRE 8:00PM Barbara Kantz, State University of New York, Empire State Bethesda Round House Theatre [just across the street College from the hotel] Documenting Social Change: Thirty Years of Non- The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey, features Jerry Traditional Higher Education at Empire State College Whiddon and Marty Lode in a funny, profound, and Frederick W. Stricker III, State University of New York, comical story about two boyhood friends and World War Buffalo II veterans. This play was hailed as one of the “Ten Best” Rising from the Ashes: A Case Study of the Creation of a plays of the year for regional theatre by Time magazine. Rural Faith Community Pick up your prepaid tickets at the registration table. 68 Beyond Oral History: Unexpected Stories from the SATURDAY Library of Congress and American Red Cross Oral Histories CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OLD GEORGETOWN MEETING ROOM FOYER 7:30AM-4:30PM Chair and Commentator: Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate EXHIBITS Historical Office CABINET/JUDICIARY SUITE 9:00AM-12:00PM Josephus Nelson, Library of Congress OLDTIMERS BREAKFAST The Library of Congress: Behind the Hallowed Walls FELLINI’S RESTAURANT 7:00-8:30AM Brien R. Williams, American Red Cross The American Red Cross and the Changing Face of 66 Volunteerism WORKSHOP: Getting Started with Oral History: Sarah Rouse, Library of Congress Veterans History Project An Introductory Workshop Ordinary Veterans’ Extraordinary Accounts: New Facets PATUXENT SUITE 9:00AM-12:00PM of the Military Experience During Wartime Join Laura Kamoie of the American University, Depart- ment of History, for a workshop on the basics of oral history. She will explore such topics as: planning and coordinating a project; effective interview techniques; equipment needs; legal and ethical concerns; and process- ing strategies. The format will be interactive and will include discussions about oral history methodology. Enrollment is limited to 16 participants. Cost: $35 members/$45 non-members. Advance registra- tion required.

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69 72 ROUNDTABLE: Using Oral History in the Class- Documenting Civil Rights: Oral History, Commu- room with Middle and High School Students nity, and Power Researching History Day Projects POTOMAC SUITE DIPLOMAT Chair and Commentator: A. Glenn Crothers, Indiana Chair: Judy D. Dobbs, Maryland Humanities Council University Southeast Dan Whetzel, Allegany High School Kenneth J. Bindas, Kent State University Brian White, Allegany High School Out of the Shadows: African Americans in Warren Ohio, 1954-1965 Kathleen Sadler, Calvert High School Molly Merrymen, Kent State University Diana Scott, Mattawoman Middle School Documenting Justice: Policing Warren, Ohio 70 Patti Capel Swartz, Kent State University Testing the Ohio Public Accommodations Law and Sharing the Story: Community Response to the Beyond: Civil Rights Leadership in East Liverpool, Ohio Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project 73 FELLINI’S BAR PERFORMANCE: Reweaving the Threads of Kim Lady Smith, Kentucky Oral History Commission Community Doug Boyd, Kentucky Oral History Commission SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE Presentation will include viewing the video documentary, Chair: Jennifer Kulik, Arizona State University Living the Story: The Civil Rights Movement Sally Voris, Gail Rosen, and Gwen Marable perform A in Kentucky. Completely Different World, a performance based on The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History community oral history interviews with people living in Project received an Award of Merit from the American the Patapsco River Valley, south of Baltimore, Maryland. Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in 2002. 74 71 International Voices Social Movements and Community Building AMBASSADOR CONGRESSIONAL Chair: Rina Benmayor, California State University, Chair: Jacobo D. Baca, University of New Mexico Monterey Bay Devra Weber, University of California, Riverside Robert Perks, British Library National Sound Archive, Community Radicals: Mexican Leftists in Los Angeles, United Kingdom 1906-1943 “The Way We Speak”: Web-Based Representations of Jess Rigelhaupt, University of Michigan Changing Communities in England The California Labor School: Building Communities of Megan Hutching, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Activism in the Post World War II San Francisco Bay Zealand Area “Talking About War”: New Zealand in World War II Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University Commentator: Michael Frisch, State University of New Remembering PATCO: The Air Traffic Controllers’ York, Buffalo “Community” and the Construction of Memory Sponsored by the OHA International Committee. Following a Labor Tragedy

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75 Nancy MacKay, Mills College Importance of Cataloging for Oral Histories MEETING: Oral History Review Board Susan Kraft, New York Public Library for the Performing EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM Arts BREAK 10:00-10:30AM Public vs. Private Information: Narrators, Patrons, and Libraries CONCURRENT SESSIONS 79 10:30AM-12:00PM Community Identity and Place 76 CONGRESSIONAL Chair: Tom King, University of Nevada, Reno Creating an Education Community, or How to Get Matthew Amster, Gettysburg College Oral History Material to Educators The Many Mouths of Community: Ethnic Affiliation and AMBASSADOR Representation in Borneo Chair: Troy Reeves, Idaho State Historical Society Tara E. Travis, Arizona State University This session is sponsored by the OHA Education Commit- The Diné of Tseqi: The Various Communities of Canyon tee and replaces the committee’s annual MEETING. de Chelly Catherine Wanner, Penn State University 77 After Atheism: Soviet Immigrant Evangelical Communi- ties in America Attempting Double Victory: The World of African American Domestic Workers in the Industrial North 80 POTOMAC SUITE Performing Place: Storytelling, Memory, Music, and Chair: Susan Tucker, Tulane University Myth Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Worcester State College EMBASSY Attempting Double Victory: African American Domestic Chair and Commentator: Charles Hardy, West Chester Workers in Grand Rapids, Michigan University Elizabeth G. Cote, University of Detroit-Mercy Pamela Dean, University of Maine Creating Community: African American Domestic Performing Maine: Three Generations of Storytellers Workers of Detroit, Michigan Bird Stasz, Elon University Audrey J. Kemp, Worcester State College And That’s the Way of It: The Stories and Storytelling of Examining Life Stories of Elder African American Dorothy Carney Domestic Workers in the Boston Metropolitan Area Erica Risberg, University of Maine Commentator: Steven Burg, Shippensburg University The Hillbillies of Maine: Community and Country Radio Performers in Northern New England, 1930-1945 78 ROUNDTABLE: Terror at 20,000 Tapes: Libraries and Oral History DIPLOMAT Chair: Robyn Russell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Shannon Page, University of California, Berkeley Tensions Between Oral History Programs and the Libraries That Contain Them

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81 84 ROUNDTABLE: Investigating Northern Indul- WORKSHOP: Funding Oral History Initiatives gences: Studying Desegregation in Northern Towns through the National Endowment for the FELLINI’S BAR Humanities Chair: Tracey Weis, Millersville University SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE 1:00-4:00PM Bernadette Anand, Bank Street College Education The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Michelle Fine, City University of New York offers grants that can support a variety of oral history Building Partnerships to Hear Freedom’s Heroes Within initiatives including: field collecting; archiving: publica- Our Community tion and dissemination of collected records; and teacher and faculty training programs for classroom use of Students from Renaissance Middle School collected oral histories. Program officers from NEH will Montclaire Wrong for Too Long: Montclaire Youth Speak discuss these federal grant programs in a session that will Jack Dougherty, Trinity College include overviews of NEH grant opportunities, and in- Guiding Student Research on Desegregation: The Project depth analyses of successful proposals. Concern City-Suburb Transfer Program in Hartford, 1:00-1:20: An overview of the NEH that includes the Connecticut structure of the agency, review process, and an announce- Dana Banks, Trinity College ment by NEH of the special initiative for FY/2004 on Was “Project Concern”a Forced Choice? American History. This will be followed by detailed presentations from NEH divisions. 82 1:20-1:40: The NEH Division of Preservation and Access presents information about data collection, archives, and Documenting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and data storage. Transgendered Communities: California and New Zealand 1:40-1:50: The NEH Division of Research presents SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE information on scholarly research and publication. Chair: Horacio Roque Ramírez, University of California, 1:50-2:00: The NEH Division of Public Programs dis- Los Angeles cusses presentation/dissemination in non-classroom environments. Irene Reti, University of California, Santa Cruz 2:00-2: 10: The NEH Division of Education Programs Jacquelyn Marie, University of California, Santa Cruz discusses presentation and dissemination in formal Alison J. Laurie, Women’s Studies, Aotearoa/New Zealand educational settings Linda Evans, Alexander Turnbull Library-National Library 2:10-2:20: The NEH Office of Challenge Grants presents of New Zealand on long-term program support, infrastructure construc- Project presenters discuss the important aspects of archive tion, acquisition, and endowments. projects that expand and enhance GLBT archives. 2:20-2:30: Q&A/break 2:30-3:00: Simulated panel reviews of successful NEH 83 proposals. Participants will divide into working groups to MEETING: Publications Committee read sample proposals for NEH funding programs. EXECUTIVE BOARDROOM 3:00-3:20: Reports from the panel review groups 3:20-4:00: Q&A. Workshop attendees will be invited to TOURS 12:00-6:00PM bring to the session their ideas for projects. NEH program officers will respond to these ideas, suggesting how they may be best crafted to take advantage of NEH funding opportunities.

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Workshop Organizer, Frederick A. Winter, is a Senior CONCURRENT SESSIONS Program Officer with the Office of Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, 10:30AM-12:00PM D.C. Workshop presenters include: Thomas Adams, Division of Education Programs, Bonnie Gould, Division 86 of Public Programs, Michael Hall, Division of Research Programs, Charles Kolb, Division of Preservation and Activist Women: Voices for Community Access, and Karen Mittelman, Division of Public Pro- EMBASSY grams. Chair: Abigail B. Davis, Lincoln/Lancaster County Cost: $40 members/$50 non-members. Advance registra- Planning Department/University of Nebraska, Lincoln tion required. Jean S. Hamm, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kk Living and Becoming in Community: Oral Histories of Konnarock Training School, 1924-1959 Elizabeth A. Castle, University of California, Santa Cruz CASH BAR RECEPTION The Changing Meaning of American Indian Grassroots/ HAVERFORD/BACCARAT 6:00-7:00PM Community Organizing AWARDS BANQUET Ann Christine Frankowski, University of Maryland, HAVERFORD/BACCARAT 7:00PM Baltimore County Presiding, Rose Díaz, OHA Vice President/President Elect From Illness to Empowerment: The Role of Support DINNER THEATRE Communities in the Lives of Breast Cancer Survivors Following dinner and awards presentations 87 The Hexagon, Inc. Traveling Comedy Troup presents, The Best Skits of ‘Rhyme and Punishment’ and Shows of Past PERFORMANCE: Moving Histories: Performance, Years Movement, and the Embodiment of Oral History SUSQUEHANNA/SEVERN SUITE Chair: Della Pollock, University of North Carolina at SUNDAY Chapel Hill Rivka S. Eisner, University of North Carolina at Chapel ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Hill HAVERFORD SUITE 7:30-8:30AM Performing Pasts into Presence: Cuttings from the Life- Memories of a Daughter of Vietnam 85 Hannah Nicole Blevins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill PLENARY: How Oral History Offices Deal with Woven Lives: Remembering Appalachia Through Legal Challenges Memory-Souvenirs WATERFORD/LALIQUE 8:30-10:00AM Jeffrey Friedman, University of California, Riverside Chair: Richard Cándida-Smith, University of California, Cracking Open the Text/Practicing Enactment Berkeley Ronald Grele, Columbia University Elizabeth Millwood, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Richard Cándida-Smith, University of California, Berkeley Commentator: John Neuenschwander, Carthage College BREAK 10:00-10:30AM

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Laura Helton, New York University 88 Political Culture and Public Space: Narratives of Weaving Communities Through Stories: Cultural Radicalism in New York’s Union Square Narratives In and Out of the Classroom Heather Lewis, New York University DIPLOMAT Teachers in the Eye of the Storm: Community Control in Chair: Charline J. Barnes, University of Northern Iowa New York City Schools Elizabeth A. Pegram, Fairfax County Public Schools Bethany Rogers, New York University Weaving Lessons from the Past: Narratives from Civil Teaching and Social Activism: Voices from the National Rights in Education Teacher Corps Susan E. Kuecker, African American Historical Museum 90 and Culture Center of Iowa Weaving Heritage Stories: Preserving the Past, Living the Oral History: Responding to Change in Our Present, Enlighten the Future Communities Roxanne Newton, Mitchell Community College CONGRESSIONAL Crafting a New Community: Working Class Students and Chair: Mary Kay Quinlan, Oral History Association Recent Immigrants’ Narratives James E. Fogerty, Minnesota Historical Society Changing Faces: Documenting the Immigrant 89 Experience Educators as Activists: Voices From the Field Mary K. Quinlan, Oral History Association AMBASSADOR Barbara W. Sommer, BWS Associates Chair and Commentator: Jonathan Zimmerman, New The People Who Made it Work: A Centennial Oral York University History of the Cushman Motor Works Linda P. Wood, Oral History Association Moving Tracks, Moving Rivers, Moving Providence

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