EAST CAROLINA MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW 214C
John Gilmer
Veteran of US Navy B1 Band

[Interviewed by Alex Albright and Jonathan Dembo]
My name’s John Gilmer.
Mr. Gilmer is a Veteran of the US Navy B1.
October 25, 2002.
What is your complete name?
John Stanley Gilmer.
And what kind of nickname did you have in the Navy?
Gus.
Gus.
How did you get that nickname?
Unintelligible. [OH #213.2 Otto Harris is noted for giving nicknames to most band members.JG states from this transcript that he doesn’t know where that name came from.]
And they stuck. 
Okay.
Where were you originally from?
Greensboro.
But you signed up in Roxboro?
No…Err…Columbus.
Oh, that’s right. Columbus.
But you were originally from Greensboro?
Greensboro.
Long phase I cannot understand.
Did the governor have a band?




	


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