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Mary Virginia Jones Greenville, N.C. Jones describes her family, her childhood, her education at Fleming Street School and C.M. Eppes School in Greenville, N.C. and North Carolina A&T, and her career as a teacher at Kittrell Junior Collge in Kittrell, N.C., and at several Pitt County and Greenville, N.C., schools. Also discusses desegregation in the schools.
Captain Richard E. Foster of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1941 comments on student life at the Academy, his wartime assignments on the USS PENNSYLVANIA and the USS INDIANA, his postwar duty on the USS WRIGHT, and his years as a naval engineer involved in ship design, planning, and production. He also describes witnessing the flag-raising at Iwo Jima from the deck of the USS VICKSBURG.
Holocaust Memories (1/31/1987) by Mrs. Helen Kahan, an Auschwitz Survivor, taped at Seminole Middle School, Seminole, FL, an autobiographical account of the life of a Rumanian Jewish girl, 1936-1945. Notes: 1 audio cassette. 0.5 hr. (Side A only) Gift to ECU by Beth Tanner, March 1987.
Interview (1910-2003) with Washington, NC native, including discussion of his farming family, farm life, early life, education, recreational activities, beach seine fishing, the Eureka Lumber Company, Barnum & Bailey Circus, employment in the post office handling special delivery mail, in a drug store as a "soda jerk," and in the automobile parts business as a salesman and owner. No transcript available.
Interview (1993-1998) with history teacher from Rich Square, NC who taught in high schools and elementary schools in Concord, NC, Wilson, NC, Roanoke Rapids, NC, Charlotte, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, and Wake County, NC, 1954-1984, who attended Women's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, NC, 1950-1952, and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1952-1954, pertaining to her family background, teaching experiences, philosophy, and desegretation. Class assignment for Professor Lu Ann Jones' Fall 1998 History 5960 Class, submitted 10/18/1998. 1 cassette. 0.5 hr. Interviewer: Sarah C. Watkins. Interview date: 10/18/1998. Typed interview log and transcript by interviewer available. 10 p. Rec'd 10/28/2003.
Interview (1903-1998) with home economics teacher from Macon County, NC, who attended North Carolina College for Women (now University of North Carolina, Greensboro), 1920-1924, pertaining to her family background, education, her teaching career in Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, NC, and her career as a home demonstration agent in Greensboro, NC, 1941-1958, working with North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority, marriage to J. Walter Moore, Addison's Disease. 2 cassettes. 3.0 hrs. Interviewer: Lu Ann Jones. Interview date: 8/5/1998, Hayesville, NC. Typed and indexed interview transcript by interviewer available. 32 p. Rec'd 10/28/2003.
Captain Richard M. Wright of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1941 describes his education at the Academy and then his career during World War II on the USS Tennessee and the submarines USS Pogy, USS Parche and USS Spadefish. Postwar commentary relates his continued career in submarines USS Blower, USS Cochino, and USS Scabbardfish.
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