In this interview, Dr. William C.E. Pfischner discusses his thirty-year long career as a doctor for the U.S. Navy and for the Philadelphia Health Department, as well as his association with life partner Dr. Loy H. Witherspoon, founding chair of the Religious Studies department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Pfischner describes his experience working for the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 in Cairo, Egypt during the 1950s, where he met Dr. Witherspoon, who was then teaching at the American University of Cairo. He describes Dr. Witherspoon's early life growing up in the Methodist Children's Home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, his work as a United Methodist minister, his close relationship with Bonnie E. Cone, founder of UNC Charlotte, and Dr. Witherspoon's own substantial contributions to the founding of the university.
Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 1, March 26, 1973, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 3, February 19, 1993, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 4, May 18, 2010, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 5, May 25, 2010, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 6, June 1, 2010, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 7, June 3, 2010, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 8, June 8, 2010, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 9, June 29, 2010, Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 10, July 6, 2010, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
