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Title: Aileen Thomas oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Thomas, Aileen R. (Aileen Rabb), 1893-1992
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Boardinghouses, Student housing, Manners and customs
Description: Aileen Thomas recounts her experiences living in Charlotte, North Carolina over the previous sixty years. Topics discussed include her memories of the city during World War I, including the Army training facility Camp Greene and Armistice Day; her...

Title: Beaumert Whitton oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Whitton, Beaumert, 1910-1990
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: World War, Boy Scouts, Scouting, Camping, Youth--Social life and customs
Description: Beaumert Whitton recounts the history of the Boy Scouts in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1910s and 1920s. Topics discussed include the founding of the city's first three troops, a short chronology of Mecklenburg County's Boy Scout...

Title: Blanche Leak Gluyas oral history interview 1, 1979 May 23
Creator: Gluyas, Blanche Leak, 1889-1989
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Stenographers, Telecommunication, Women employees, Manners and customs, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Blanche Leak Gluyas describes her work as a stenographer for Southern Bell in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1900s and 1910s and as a secretary with the State Department during World War II. Other topics discussed include prominent families ...

Title: Edmond J. Reizck oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Reizck, Edmond J. (Edmond Joseph), 1921-2011
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Soldiers, Veterans, City and town life
Description: Edmond J. Reizck recounts his memories of life in North Carolina and how Charlotte, North Carolina has changed throughout the years. He recalls his time in the U.S. Army National Guard in the Thirtieth Infantry Division during World War II and men...

Title: Elizabeth R. Herbert oral history interview, 1979 May 23
Creator: Herbert, Elizabeth R. (Elizabeth Russell), 1908-2010
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Methodist Church, Families--Religious life, City and town life
Description: Elizabeth R. Herbert recounts her childhood in Sumter, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and her memories of married life in Charlotte, North Carolina as the wife of a Methodist minister. She describes delivering water to soldiers ...

Title: Esther Zemek oral history interview, 1979 May 23
Creator: Zemek, Esther, 1901-2002
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Rural schools
Description: Esther Zemek discusses her experiences attending school in a one room schoolhouse near Chicago, Illinois and the dedication her instructors exhibited. She describes traveling through deep snow to attend school and completing her eighth grade exami...

Title: Helen Babington oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Babington, Helen, 1910-1996
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Historic preservation, Historical museums
Description: Helen Babington describes her involvement in Gaston County community efforts to preserve the county's history. She discusses her role as trustee and vice-president of the Gaston County Museum of Art & History, the restoration of historic buildings...

Title: John Black oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Black, John, 1905-1979
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Asbestos industry, City and town life, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: John Black discusses his thirty-seven years as a asbestos company worker in Charlotte, North Carolina and how it affected his health. Other topics discussed include life in downtown Charlotte, visits to Black Mountain, North Carolina for medical t...

Title: Joseph C. Boyarsky oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Boyarsky, Joseph C., 1892-1981
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Joseph C. Boyarsky discusses his service as a fighter pilot during World War I and how he became the postmaster of Charlotte. Other topics discussed include how he moved to Charlotte permanently after he married a woman he met while stationed at C...

Title: Margaret Boone McKenzie oral history interview, 1979 May 23
Creator: McKenzie, Margaret Boone, 1882-1980
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, Voting, African Americans--Segregation, Family farms
Description: Margaret Boone McKenzie recounts her and her family's experiences living in Charlotte and Lumberton, North Carolina. Topics discussed include moving to Charlotte in the 1920s, the city's growth, and her father's farm in Lumberton.

Title: Marion W. Boyd oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Boyd, Marion W. (Marion Woods), 1911-2007
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, African Americans--Education, Manners and customs, Families, Quakers--Education
Description: Marion W. Boyd discusses her experiences teaching throughout North Carolina and the challenges she faced as a result of graduating college during the Great Depression. Other topics discussed include family relations, her Quaker education, regional...

Title: Mary Jane White oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: White, Mary Jane, 1904-1987
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Farm life, Family farms, Education, Rural
Description: Mary Jane White discusses living on a family farm in Union County, North Carolina during the early twentieth century, then moving to Charlotte, North Carolina to work in a private household in 1927. Other topics include her education in a one-room...

Title: Mary Kate B. Newell oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Newell, Mary Kate B. (Mary Kate Banton), 1894-1988
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Hospitals--Administration, Manners and customs, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Mary Kate Newell recounts moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1914 from Atlanta, Georgia to attend nurse training school at Presbyterian Hospital, where she was later employed. Topics discussed include the doctors she worked with, advancement o...

Title: Mildred M. Siderman oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Siderman, Mildred M. (Mildred McKee), 1919-2016
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Families--Social life and customs, Transportation, Floods
Description: Mildred M. Siderman recounts her years working as a practical nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina at Charlotte Memorial Hospital before she moved out of state in 1944. Other topics include how the North Carolina flood of 1916 affected her family in...

Title: Stanford R. Brookshire oral history interview 3, 1979 May 22
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Municipal government, Urban renewal, City and town life, Cities and towns--Growth, Civil rights movements, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Business enterprises
Description: Stanford R. Brookshire shares his memories of his early years in Charlotte, North Carolina and his time as mayor of Charlotte from 1961 to 1969. He compares the city's size and population during the late 1920s and early 1930s with the late 1970s. ...

Title: Susan Hicks oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Hicks, Susan Bible, 1893-1996
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: War work--Red Cross, Social service, Nonprofit organizations
Description: Susan Hicks gives a brief history of the American Red Cross, particularly how it was organized and functioned in Charlotte, North Carolina during and after World War I. Topics discussed include types of social services provided by the Red Cross, o...

Title: Winslow H. Hartford oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Hartford, Winslow H.
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Manners and customs, Citizens' associations, Local government--Citizen participation
Description: Winslow H. Hartford describes his experiences growing up in Newton, Massachusetts and attending Boston University during the time of the Great Depression. Other topics discussed include his work as a professor at Belmont Abbey College, national tr...