1980 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES Mss. Coll. #90
Contains transcripts and tapes of an oral history project documenting the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. Interviews are mostly with North Country individuals involved with the local organization of the games. Project headed by Jonathan Rossie, SLU History Department. Government document: A Report on the 1980 Winter Olympic Games At Lake Placid by Senate Committee on Investigations, Taxation, and Government Operations, Roy M. Goodman, Chairman
ORAL HISTORY PAPERS
FOLDER 1 [1 of 7]
Interviewee: Robert Allen Manager, North Elba Park District Chairman, Planning & Engineering, LPOOC Interviewer: William C. Brayden Date of Interview: November 1, 1979 File Name: Allen & Allen 2 Pages: 27
Interviewee: Jack Barry Member, LPOOC Member, Village Board Interviewer: Catherine Woodruff Date of Interview: October 12, 1979 File Name: Barry Barry 2 Pages: 16
Interviewee: Edward Blankman St. Lawrence University Archivist Interviewer: Mary Reinman Date of Interview: March 22, 1979 File Name: Blankman Pages: 12
Interviewee: David Bochnowich Director Economic Development Administration Interviewer: Benson E. Miller Date of Interview: December 12, 1979 File Name: Bochno 2 Pages: 19 pages
Interviewee: Rhett Colby Ski Jumper Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 18, 1980 File Name: Colby R Colby R2 Pages: 12
Interviewee: William Colby Resident of Lake Placid Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 18, 1980 File Name: Colby W Colby W2 Pages: 21 2
Interviewee: Daniel Deighan Real Estate Broker & Appraiser Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: November 7, 1979 File Name: Deighan Deighan 2 (same file) Pages: 15
FOLDER 2 [2 of 7] Interviewee: Richard Estes Adirondack Park Agency Interviewer: Elizabeth Morrison Date of Interview: April 16, 1979 File Name: Estes Estes 2 Pages: 14p
Interviewee: David Evans Engineer, Commerce Department Construction Inspector Interviewer: William C. Brayden Date of Interview: November 1, 1979 File Name: Evans Pages: 23p
Interviewee: J. Bernard Fell, President Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee Interviewer: Benson E. Miller Date of Interview: November 7, 1979 File Name: Fell Pages: 40p
Interviewee: James Gragg Manage, Mt. Van Hoevenberg Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 30, 1980 File Name: Gragg Pages: 20p
Interviewee: William Grossman Motel Owner Interviewer: Pricilla Paul Date of Interview: November 12, 1979 File Name: Grossman Pages: 21p
Interviewee: Joe Hopkins, Assistant Director Economic Development Administration Interviewer: Benson Miller Date of Interview: November 29, 1979 File Name: Hopkins J Pages: 21p
Interviewee: Jean Jesmer President, Bank of Lake Placid Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: November 9, 1979 File Name: Jesmer Pages: 15p 3
FOLDER 3 [3 of 7] Interviewee: Ronald B. Keough Saranac Lake Funeral Director Supervisor, Town of Hariettstown Member of the Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 30, 1980 File Name: Keough Pages: 21p
Interviewee: John Musgrave Head of Marketing LPOOC Interviewer: Dave Casier Date of Interview: April 25, 1979 File Name: Musgrave Pages: 20p
Interviewee: Thomas O’Neill NYS Department of Labor Interviewer: Elizabeth A. Perry Date of Interview: November 1, 1979 File Name: O’Neil Pages: 37p
Interviewee: Jim Rogers Chairman, LPOOC Division of Protocol Interviewer: Derrick Holt Date of Interview: April 17, 1979 File Name: Rogers Pages: 37p
Interviewee: Tim Schlacter Assistant Director of Support Planning Interviewer: Priscilla Paul Date of Interview: November 16, 1979 File Name: Schlacter Pages: 16p
Interviewee: Donald Wheeler Director of Continuing Development, LPOOC Operations and Maintenance Budget Interviewer: Elizabeth A. Perry Date of Interview: October 26, 1979 File Name: Wheelerl Pages: 26p
FOLDER 4 [4 of 7]
Interviewee: Bernard Adler Merchant, Former Marketing Committee Member Interviewer: Catherine Woodruff Date of Interview: November 29 [1979] File Name: Adler Pages: 28p
Interviewee: Nancy Beattie Owner, Bookstore Plus Former President, L.P. Businessmen’s Association Interviewer: David Casier 4
Date of Interview: April 25, 1979 File Name: Beattie Pages: 22p
Interviewee: James Brooks Member LPOOC Executive Committee Lake Placid Attorney Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 18, 1980 File Name: Brooks Pages: 33p
Interviewee: Edna Broquist President, Lake Placid Business Association Owner of Pamela’s Shop Interviewer: Elizabeth A. Perry Date of Interview: December 12, 1979 File Name: Broquist Pages: 40p
Interviewee: Matt Clark Town Clerk, Town of North Elba Interviewer: Linda Frame Date of Interview: April 24, 1979 File Name: Clark Pages: 13p
Interviewee: Phil Davidson Chief Flag Volunteer Interviewer: Linda Frame Date of Interview: April 16, 1979 File Name: Davidson Pages: 13p
Interviewee: Hon, Robert Flacke Commissioner, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Former head of Adirondack Park Agency Interviewer: Elizabeth Morrison Date of Interview: April 19, 1979 File Name: Flacke Pages: 21p
Interviewee: Harry Fregoe [Mayor Saranac Lake] Chairman Athletes Housing Committee Interviewer: Dave Casier Date of Interview: April 11, 1979 File Name: Fregoe Pages: 19p
Interviewee: Ed Hale Publisher and Editor of the Lake Placid News (Oct.1974 –Feb. 1978) Interviewer: Chris Ortloff Date of Interview: April 26, 1979 File Name: Hale Pages: 29p 5
Folder 5 [5 of 7] Interviewee: Carolyn Hopkins Chairman of Board of Arts Center Interviewer: Derrick Holt Date of Interview: April 6, 1979 File Name: Hopkins C Pages: 40p
Interviewee: Carolyn Hopkins Interviewer: Derrick Holt Date of Interview: April 6, 1979 File Name: Hopkins C Pages: 38p NOTE: seems like this is a copy of the one listed just above with a few differences.
Interviewee: Everett Howard [recollection of 1932 Games] Canton, NY Interviewer: Mary Reinman Date of Interview: March 23, 1979 File Name: Howard Pages: 13p
Interviewee: Georgia Jones Co-ordinator of Volunteeers Interviewer: Linda Frame Date of Interview: April 11, 1979 File Name: Jones Pages: 23p
Interviewee: Warren Kane Clerk of Subcommittee on commerce Appropriations U.S. Senate Interviewer: Benson E. Miller Date of Interview: January 1, 1980 File Name: Kane Pages: 32p
Interviewee: J. Vernon Lamb, Jr. Chairman, LPOOC Environmental Council Interviewer: E. Morrison Date of Interview: April 9, 1979 File Name: Lamb Pages: 11p
Interviewee: Tom Long Legislative Counsel for Congressman Robert C. McEwen of NYS Interviewer: Benson E. Miller Date of Interview: [n.d.] File Name: Long Pages: 47p
Interviewee: Lopez Interviewer: Date of Interview: File Name: Pages:
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Interviewee: Phil LaRocque Legislative Counsel to Senator Stafford of New York State Interviewer: Benson E. Miller Date of Interview: January 21, 1980 File Name: Larocque Pages: 30p
FOLDER 6 [6 of 7]
Interviewee: Greg MacConnell Director of Program Planning LPOOC Interviewer: Benson Miller Date of Interview: November 29, 1979 File Name: Maconnell Pages: 37p
Interviewee: Anna MacKenzie Whiteface Mt. Development Interviewer: Tom Anderson Date of Interview: June 22, 1979 File Name: ???? Pages: 18p
Interviewee: Mary MacKenzie Town Historian, Lake Placid Interviewer: Mary Reinman Date of Interview: April 9, 1979 File Name: ???? Pages: 20p
Interviewee: Anna MacKenzie [Whiteface Mt. Development] Interviewer: Mary Reinman Date of Interview: April 16, 1979 File Name: ???? Pages: 30p
Interviewee: Eugene McEneany Pressman New York Daily News Resident of Saranac Lake Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 21, 1980 File Name: McEneany Pages: 28p
Interviewee: Betsy Minehan Olympic Village Interviewer: David Casier Date of Interview: April 17, 1979 File Name: Minehan Pages: 14p
Interviewee: Sheila Young Ochowicz Speed Skating 1976 Medalist Interviewer: Linda Frame Date of Interview: May 1, 1979 File Name: Ochowicz Pages: 24p
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Interviewee: Robert Peacock Mayor, Village of Lake Placid Interviewer: Derrick Holt Date of Interview: April 6, 1979 File Name: Peacock Pages: 22p
Interviewee:` Dick Persico APA Interviewer: Elizabeth Morrison Date of Interview: April 19, 1979 File Name: Persico Pages: 20p
Interviewee: Paul Richards Manager, New York State Building Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America Interviewer: William C. Brayden Date of Interview: November 24 [1979] File Name: Richards Pages: 12p
FOLDER 7 [7 of 7]
Interviewee: Peter Roland Member LPOOC, Lake Placid Business Man {owns hotel] Interviewer: Linda Frame Date of Interview: April 18, 1979 File Name: Roland Pages: 11p
Interviewee: Shirley Seney Member, LPOOC President, Board of Education, lake Placid Central School Interviewer: Derrick B. Holt Date of Interview: April 26, 1979 File Name: Seney Pages: 26p
Interviewee: Favor Smith, Sr. Member North Elba Town Board Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 24, 1980 File Name: Smith Pages: 22p
Interviewee: Petr Spurney General Manager, Chief Executive Officer Interviewer: Tom Anderson Date of Interview: September 14, 1979 File Name: Spurney Pages: 29p
Interviewee: George Stahler Department of Transportation Olympic Travel Coordinator Working for Department of Transportation Interviewer: David Casier 8
Date of Interview: April 25, 1979 File Name: Stahler Pages: 20p
Interviewee: Mrs. Hubert Stevens Widow of Gold Medalist in Two-Man Bobsled, 1932 Interviewer: Mary Reinman Date of Interview: May 9, 1979 File Name: ? Pages: 14p
Interviewee: Erica Terwillegar Luger Interviewer: Elizabeth Perry Date of Interview: January 22, 1980 File Name: Terwillegar Pages: 23p
Interviewee: Roger Tubby Governor Carey’s liaison to LPOOC Chairman OACC Interviewer: Priscilla Paul Date of Interview: November 29, 1979 File Name: Tubby Pages: 29p
Interviewee: Harold Williams Deputy Assistant Direct of EDA (Economic Development Administration Washington D.C.) Interviewer: Benson E. Miller Date of Interview: January 1, 1980 File Name: Williams Pages: 20p
OTHER MATERIALS
Folder 1 Oral History Selected Topical Book Lists A Selected bibliography and Guide to Resources Do’s and Don’t’s of Oral History 2 1980 Olympic Project Trip Approval of University Automobiles Form Questions for a L.P.O.O.C. Member Questions for Community leaders Questions for General interview 3 Notes (newsletter due dates) 4 North Country Research Center Newsletter Issue I, December 1976 Issue II, June 1977(3 copies) 5 Newspaper Article 9
October 4, 1979 News Release to Adirondack Daily Enterprise and the Watertown Daily Times about the Oral history Project. 6 Correspondence Research questions 7 Correspondence Of Jonathan Rossie and Kelli Rossie 8 Course Outline and List of Interviews 9 Oral History Class Budget 10 Correspondence with the Olympic and Winter Sports Museum 11 Interview Appoints Spring 1979 12 Interview Appointments Fall 1979
At back of box Book “The Modern Olympics” by Peter J. Graham and Horst Ueberhorst 1977 June Report “Pedestrian Movement at the Ski Jump, 1980 Winter Olympics” by Peter I. Wolf and David T. Hartgen 1976, June Report “Travel Demand atthe4 1980 Winter Olympics Estimation and Analysis” by Robert G. Knighton, Gerald S. Cohen and Richard D. Albertin. 1977 September Booklet “Lake Placid and the 1980 Winter Olympics: Community Attitudes and the Planning Process” by Environmental Studies program North Country Research Center – St. Lawrence University [n.d.] “A Report on the 1980 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid” (39 pages) Folder containing News from Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee, brochure “Lake Placid America’s Most Complete Resort – Business Directory 1979-1980”; Competition Schedule February 13-24, 1980; Information on the Oral History Project; “Pre-Games, national and World Sporting Competition Schedule 1979”; “Map of the Olympic Village 1980”; newspaper “Lake Placid Olympian” January 1979. Box of 3 ½ ” disks containing the oral history papers (Word Perfect) Box of 5 1/2” disks containing the oral history papers (format is not listed)
Floppy 5 1/4 x 5 ¼ (Listed below are the titles on the disk)
Jesmer Keoug Lopez Musgrave
Shea Allen Barry Bochnow
Colby, R. Colby, W. Hopkins Roland
Seney Stahler Stevens Schlacter
O’Neil Musgrave Rogers Wheeler
Ochowicz Persico Clark Davidson
Flacke Hall Macconnell MacKenzie
MacKenzie Blankman Deighan Estes
Evans Hopkins, J. Long McEneany
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Tubby Fell Gragg Grossman
Brooks, James Broquist, Edna Hopkins, Carolyn Kane, Warren
Beattie Howard Jones Lamb
MacKenzie, M. Minehan Adler Fregoe
Peacock Richards Smith Spurney
Williams LaRocque
Floppy 3 ½ x 3 ½ F=folder
Done in Word Perfect (Listed below are the titles on the disk)
Adler (F4) Allen2 (F1) Allen1 (F1) Barry (F1)
Barry2 (F1) Beattie (F4) Blankman (F1) Bochno2 (F1)
Broquist (F4) Broquis2 (F4) Brooks (F4) Brooks2(F4)
Colbyr (F1) ColbyW2 (F1) Colbyr2 (F1) Colbyw (F1)
Clark (F4) Davidson (F4) Deighan (F1) Deighan2 (F1)
Estes (F2) Estes2 (F2) Evans (F2) Flacke (F4)
Fell (F2) Fregoe (F4) Format Format
Gragg (F2) Grossman (F2) Hale(F4) Hopkins
HopkinsC (F5) Hopkins2 (F2) Hopkins2 disc 3(F5) HopkinsJ2
HopkinsJ (F2) Howard (F5) Jesmer (F2) Jesmer2 (F2)
Jones (F5) Kane (F5) Keough (F3) Keough2 (F3
Lamb (F5) Larocque (F5) Long (F5) (pgs 1-33) Long2 (F5)(p.34-47)
Lopez (F5) Lopez2 (F5) Macconne(F6) Mackenze
MacKenzi 4 disc 2 (F6) Mackenzi A. Reinman(F6) Mackenze2 A.(F6) McEneany(F6)
Minehan (F6) Musgrave(F3) Musgrave2(F3) O’Neill (F3)
Ochowicz (F6) Peacock (F6) Persico(F6) Richards(F6)
Rogers (F3) Roland (F7) Seney (F7) Schlacter (F3)
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Shea (F7) Smith (F7) Spurney (F7) Stahler (F7)
Stevens (F7) Tubby (F7) Wheeler1 (F3) Williams (F7)
Found above but not in file: Hopkins HopkinsJ2 Format MacKenze
Present in File but missing above: Terwillegar, Erica (F7)
F1: Allen1 & Allen2-same, Barry, Barry2, Blankman, Bochno2, Colbyr & Colbyr2-same, Colbyw & Colbyw2- same, Deighan & Deighan2-same
F2: Estes & Estes2-same, Evans & Evans2-same, Fell, Gragg, Grossman & Grossman2-same, HopkinsJ & Hopkins2-same, Jesmer & Jesmer2-same
F3: Keough & Keough2-same, Musgrave & Musgrave2, O’Neill, Rogers, Schlacter, Wheeler1
F4: Adler, Beattie, Brooks & Brooks2-same, Broquist & Broquist2, Clark, Davidson, Flacke, Fregoe, Hale
F5: Howard, Hopkins2disc3 (2 copies) & HopkinsC-same, LaRocque, Lamb, Long, Long2, Lopez2, Lopez, Jones, Kane
F6: Macconne (2 copies), Mackenzi A Reinman, Mackenz2 A., Mackenzi 4 disc2, McEneany, Minehan, Ochowicz, Peacock, Persico, Richards
F7: Roland, Seney, Shea, Smith, Spurney, Stahler, Stevens, Terwillegar, Tubby, Williams