OH 1603 AARON, John (B. 1942). for the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA Engineer and Manager. Childhood in Dodson, Texas, An
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OH 1603 AARON, John (b. 1942). For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer and manager. Childhood in Dodson, Texas, and Vinson, Oklahoma; education at Bethany Nazarene College and Southwestern Oklahoma State University; career with NASA in mission control, space shuttle development, and software development, and International Space Station programs; duties on various Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions; Skylab program’s importance to NASA and space exploration; perceptions of NASA’s working and management culture. 123 pp. plus documents (4 pp.) Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Michael Johnson Date of Interview: November 4, 2006 OH 0254 ABBEY, Lillie (b. 1890). Reminiscences and experiences of a long-time resident of Denton, Texas; Oklahoma land rush; life in Denton during the 1920s and 1930s; Great Depression; farm life. 29 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Peggy Browne Date of Interview: December 11, 1974 OH 0282 ABBITT, Raymond E. (b. 1912). Episcopalian missionary. His experiences as a civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Capture on Mindanao; Davao internment camp, 1942-43; Santo Tomas, Manila, 1943; fall of Manila and liberation, 1945. 88 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Ronald E. Marcello Date of Interview: February 25, 1975 OH 1272 ABBOT, J. Lloyd (b. 1918). Navy veteran. Miscellaneous comments about his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. U. S. Naval Academy, 1935-39; assignment to USS Enterprise, 1939; assignment to USS Glimer, 1939-41; flight training at Pensacola, 1941; assignment to Advanced Carrier Training Group (Pacific), 1941-42; assignment to VF-6 (Fighting 6) aboard the USS Enterprise, 1942; assignment to VS-1D-14 in the South Pacific, 1942-43; commanding officer of VS-66, Wallis Island, 1943; antisubmarine patrols out of Wallis Island; assignment to Nanumea, 1943; assignment to Tarawa, 1943-44, with an SBD squadron; assignment to the Chief of Naval Air Training, Pensacola, 1944-46, as engineering officer; postwar naval and civilian career. 67 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: William J. Alexander Date of Interview: March 14, 1998 OH 0929 ABE, Zenji (b. 1916). Imperial Japanese Navy veteran. His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his participation in the Aleutians Campaign, June 1942, and the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” May 1944; surrender of Rota Island, September 2, 1945. 66 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewers: Richard W. Byrd; John Daniels Dates of Interviews: May 1, 1993; May 4, 1993 OH 1269 th th ABEL, Marlyn S. (b. 1912). Army Air Forces veteran (498 Air Service Group, 9 Air Force). His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Preliminary training in New Mexico, Texas, Oregon, and Kansas; troop convoy to England, 1944; preparations for the Normandy Invasion, 1944; entry into Normandy on D + 6; transfer to 9th Air Force; initiation to combat; bombing of Saint Lô, July 25, 1944; supplying U. S. fighters and fighter-bombers; rest and recreation in France; black market activities; Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45; Rhineland Campaign, 1945; Munich and the end of the war; postwar adjustment to civilian life. 44 pp. plus documents (2 pp.) Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Ronald E. Marcello Date of Interview: August 14, 1998 OHB 0055 ABERNETHY, Byron R. (b. 1909). Labor arbitrator, Lubbock, Texas. Circumstances surrounding termination of his employment at Texas Tech University. 30 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewers: Sam Barton; Floyd Jenkins Date of Interview: January 6, 1981 OHB 0064 ABERNETHY, Byron R. (b. 1909). Labor arbitrator, Lubbock, Texas; director of regional War Labor Board, Dallas, Texas. Family background; farming near Beach, North Dakota; activities as principal in Dodge, North Dakota; employment in political science department at University of North Dakota, 1937; experiences during the Great Depression; research on crop insurance and liberty concepts in labor relations; activities as director of regional War Labor Board office in Dallas and as vice-chairman of the Board, 1943-45; contributions of War Labor board to bargaining process; employment in political science department at Texas Tech, 1947; discussion of “ad hoc” and “permanent” arbitrators; comments on arbitration process and selection of cases to arbitrate; comments on operating requirements of professional arbitrator; comparison of 1940s and 1980s arbitration processes; views on injection of legalism in arbitration process; explanation of expedited procedures; comments on differences in arbitrating in Northeast and Southwest; “ego security” as a factor in arbitration cases; discussion of origin of full-time professional arbitrators; purposes of and involvement with the National Academy of Arbitrators. 119 pp. plus documents (4 pp.) Terms of Use: Open Interviewers: Floyd Jenkins; Sam Barton Date of Interview: January 6, 1981 OH 1647 ACIERNO, Sharon “Tommie” (b. 1949). For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War veteran. Childhood in Brook Park, Ohio; decisions to drop out of high school and to enlist in the U.S. Army; basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala.,; clerical training; assignment to Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. and base in Heidelberg, Germany; “coming out” experience with self and with family; decision to volunteer for assignment to Vietnam; clerical duties with logistics unit at Long Binh, including work with Graves Registration; camaraderie among gay and straight troops; experiences with apathetic citizens and antiwar protesters upon return to U.S.; work as drill sergeant at Ft. McClellan; decision to leave Army; decision to relocate to Dallas; struggles with alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder; experience in Veterans Administration psychiatric ward; relocation; opinions regarding “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and treatment of women in the military generally; work with Vietnam Veterans of America group. 85 pp. plus documents (3 pp.) Terms of use: Open Interviewer: Michael Mims Date of Interview: October 9, 2007 OH 0076 ADAIR, William G. (b. 1917). Businessman, Army veteran, survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Zentsuji, Shikoku, 1943; Rokuroshi, Honshu, 1945; liberation. 108 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Ronald E. Marcello Date of Interview: May 27, 1971 OH 0296 ADAMS, Kenneth V. (b. 1923). Truck driver, navy veteran. His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Henley during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. 41 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Ronald E. Marcello Date of Interview: February 16, 1976 OHB 0091 ADAMS, Stanley Edward (b. 1910). Co-owner of Adams Abstract Company and rancher, Robert Lee, Texas; Chairman of Board, City Savings, San Angelo, Texas. Family background; work on father’s farm, Robert Lee; employment with Tom Green County Abstract Company, San Angelo, 1927; description of oil booms in Coke County; development of Coke County Abstract Company; origin of Adams Abstract Company, 1945; descriptions of lease acquisitions in West Texas; experiences drilling for oil in Jamison Field, 1950s; purchase of farms and raising of sheep, goats, and cattle; comments on problems of farmers and ranchers; description of son’s activities in Texas banking business; experiences during Depression in Coke and Tom Green counties; civic and trade association activities. ADAMS, Elsie (b. 1906). Co-owner of Adams Abstract Company, Robert Lee, Texas. Family background; experiences growing up on farm near Miles, Texas; comments on teaching at Klattenhoff and Robert Lee public schools; comments on procedures of abstract companies; explanation of different types of abstracts and purpose of title policies; comments on charges for abstract work; entry into real estate business; advertising of businesses; civic activities; development of Lake Spence. 136 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Floyd Jenkins Date of Interview: March 30, 1984 OHB 0070 ADAMS, Virgil C. (b. 1928). Owner and operator of Adams Exterminating Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with Morrison Milling Company and International Exterminating Company, Denton; experiences in Navy at end of World War II; employment with father’s company, Adams Exterminating, 1950; comments on public view of pest control business, 1940s; description of Purdue University’s courses on pest control; comments on business competitors; views on “self-policing” within the pest control business; development of large sprayer dealership; contrast of old and current methods of pest control; discussion of ant problems, expansion of company; requirements for licensing pest control business; discussion of variety of pesticides; comments on government regulations; expansion of market; civic and trade association activities; duties as president of Texas Pest Control Association. 105 pp. Terms of Use: Open Interviewer: Floyd Jenkins Date of Interview: February 11, 1982 OH 0705 ADKINS, Dorothy (b. ca. 1925). Schoolteacher, community activist, homemaker. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Group social activities and parties; desegregation of public places in Denton; school desegregation; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; public housing;