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Title: Charles C. Hight oral history interview, 2013 March 14
Creator: Hight, Charles C.
Date Created: 2013-03-14
Subjects--Topical: College administrators, Architects, Campus planning, College buildings, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Dr. Charles C. Hight, former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (UNC Charlotte), discusses his career at UNC Charlotte and his involvement with creating and implementing the 1995 Campus Master Plan...

Title: David Walters oral history interview, 2013 January 16
Creator: Walters, David (David R.)
Date Created: 2017-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Campus planning, Landscape architects, College buildings, Building, Architecture, Doctor of philosophy degree, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Dr. David Walters, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, reflects on Chancellor James H. Woodward's accomplishments, especially the way he managed exponential growth in facilities and aca...

Title: Harvey Gantt oral history interview, 2021 July 6
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 2021-07-06
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Social integration, Race discrimination
Description: Harvey Gantt settled in Charlotte, North Carolina in the early 1970s after becoming the first African American to attend Clemson University, where he studied architecture and urban planning. He became a key figure in Charlotte's business and ...

Title: J. Norman Pease oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Pease, J. Norman (James Norman), Sr., 1885-1987
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, Cities and towns--Growth, Historic buildings, Municipal government, Voluntarism, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation, Business enterprises
Description: Architect J. Norman Pease shares his memories of Charlotte, North Carolina in the early twentieth century. He talks in detail about Charlotte in the 1920s, including the city's growth in population; the city's hotels, businesses, and churches; and...

Title: Jack Boyte oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Boyte, Jack O., 1920-2005
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, City and town life, Boy Scouts, Presbyterianism, Church fund raising
Description: Native Charlottean Jack Boyte shares his experiences with evangelical revivals in Charlotte, North Carolina. From his days of Boy Scout volunteerism, he discusses his exposure to and participation in the revivals of evangelist Mordecai Ham. He off...

Title: Martin Zimmerman oral history interview, 2013 January 3
Creator: Zimmerman, Martin, 1943-
Date Created: 2013-01-03
Subjects--Topical: Urban universities and colleges, Campus planning, Landscape architects, College buildings, Building
Description: Martin Zimmerman, former Director of Facilities Planning at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1992-2001, talks about the master planning process that culminated with the Campus Master Plan in 1995. Mr. Zimmerman discusses Chancell...

Title: Tom Warshauer oral history interview 1, 2017 January 22
Creator: Warshauer, Tom, 1956-
Date Created: 2017-01-22
Subjects--Topical: Jews--Social life and customs, Young gay men, Parents of queer people, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Discrimination, LGBTQ+ culture, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, City planning
Description: Tom Warshauer discusses his life as an openly gay man and his forty year career as an architect and city planner. Mr. Warshauer describes his experiences growing up in a Jewish family in Wilmington, North Carolina during the 1960s, the discriminat...

Title: Tom Warshauer oral history interview 2, 2017 February 19
Creator: Warshauer, Tom, 1956-
Date Created: 2017-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Gay community, City planning, Cities and towns--Growth, Gay activists, LGBTQ+ culture, Sexual orientation--Political aspects, Gay and lesbian film festivals, Fund raising, AIDS (Disease), Discrimination--Law and legislation, Transgender people--Legal status, laws, etc.
Description: In this second interview, Tom Warshauer discusses his arrival in Charlotte in 1990 to work with the city's planning department. He explains that he was initially apprehensive of Charlotte's conservative culture and planned to stay in the...