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Title: Ann Mabe Newman, Dona Harton Haney, and nursing colleagues oral history interview, 2017 June 6
Creator: Haney, Dona Harton
Date Created: 2017-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Education--Research, Nursing, Nurses, Nursing--Study and teaching, Nursing schools--Faculty, Nursing schools--Curricula, Medicine
Description: Dr. Ann Newman, and Dona Haney organized this interview as part of their research into the history of the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing in preparation to write and publish a book to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the school in 2018, (Ms. ...

Title: Barbara Ann Goodnight oral history interview, 2013 February 18
Creator: Goodnight, Barbara A. (Barbara Ann), 1937-
Date Created: 2017-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges--Administration, College Teachers, Campus planning, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Doctor of philosophy degree, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Dr. Barbara Ann Goodnight, former Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses her thirty year career at the university and focuses on significant events that took place during C...

Title: Belton, Jonathan oral history interview, 2014 September 1
Creator: Belton, Jonathan P., 1956-2016
Date Created: 2014-09-01
Subjects--Topical: Rivers, Tadpoles, Swimming, Summer
Description: Jonathan Belton describes his childhood activities playing with his friends in Briar Creek adjacent to the neighborhood of Grier Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina. He describes catching tadpoles and digging out gray clay from the banks of the c...

Title: Brad Keistler oral history interview 1, 2017 October 25
Creator: Keistler, Brad
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Homophobia, Communal living, Gay liberation movement
Description: In this first of two interviews, Brad Keistler, the co-founder of the Charlotte chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s, describes his childhood in Mecklenburg County, his college experience at UNC Charlotte and UNC Chapel Hill,...

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: Conboy, Richard and Louis Trosch oral history interview, 2021 May 25
Creator: Conboy, Richard M.
Date Created: 2021-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Business education
Description: Jay Davis, executive director of external relations for the Belk College of Business interviews emeritus professors Richard Conboy and Louis Trosch in a panel interview. The panelists introduce themselves, discuss their backgrounds, and discuss th...

Title: Dan L. Morrill oral history interview 6, 2012 March 28
Creator: Morrill, Dan L.
Date Created: 2012-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, College students, Universities and colleges--Faculty, History
Description: In this follow-up interview to his interview of March 6, 2012, Dr. Dan Morrill continues to reflect upon Bonnie Cone and the transition of the university from Charlotte College to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He recalls a spontan...

Title: Darryl Gaston oral history interview, 2015 November 2
Creator: Gaston, D. Reginald (Darryl Reginald)
Date Created: 2015-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Community development, Urban, Citizens' associations
Description: Darryl Reginald Gaston served as the President of the Druid Hills Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina for nearly a decade. Born in 1961, Mr. Gaston grew up on Edison Street, located in Druid Hills, which he describes as a tight-kn...

Title: Eddie Yow oral history interview, 2019 April 9
Creator: Yow, Eddie
Date Created: 2019-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Farmers’ markets, Country life, Beef cattle, Livestock, Family farms
Description: Mr. Eddie Yow raises livestock and sells beef in the North Carolina Piedmont region. He is a native of Stanly County, North Carolina and has lived in Stanfield, North Carolina for over thirty years. In this interview, he reflects on the many chang...

Title: Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 2, Date 2018, April 20
Creator: Ruff, Ellen, T.
Date Created: 2018-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Job hunting, Contracts, Legal assistance to the poor, Nuclear power plants, Trade regulation, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description: In this second of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses how she met her husband in law school at UNC Chapel Hill, their relationship, and his background before they met. She also talks abou...

Title: H. Parry Bliss, Jr. oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Bliss, H. Parry, Jr.
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: College students, Civil rights movements, College student newspapers and periodicals, College yearbooks, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, Education, Higher, September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
Description: In this interview H. Parry Bliss, Jr., alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares memories of his time as a student at the university, particularly of his senior year in 1969. He recalls his impressions of Bonnie Cone and rec...

Title: H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview, 2017 November 17
Creator: Kirkpatrick, H. D. (Hugh DeArmond), II, 1948-
Date Created: 2017-11-17
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Genealogy, Conscientious objectors, Humanistic psychology, Child abuse--Law and legislation, Slavery, Bible. Genesis, Enslavement
Description: In this fourth and final recording in a series of interviews with Jimmie Lee and H.D. Kirkpatrick, H.D. Kirkpatrick reflects on his family, his life experiences, and his shifting perspective on family and Southern history. Dr. Kirkpatrick describe...

Title: Haire, Wenonah oral history interview, 2015 February 13
Creator: Haire, Wenonah G. (Wenonah George)
Date Created: 2015-02-03
Subjects--Topical: Fishing, Rivers
Description: Dr. Haire describes some of the traditional uses that the creeks have been used for in the past and present by the Catawba Indians. She also discusses the concerns that come from being south of the creeks in Charlotte/Mecklenburg County. She stres...

Title: Hall, Rickey oral history interview, 2014 May 27
Creator: Hall, Rickey (Rickey Vaughn), 1957-
Date Created: 2014-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Floods, Swimming, Rivers
Description: Rickey Hall recalls his childhood adventures swimming in Irwin Creek and its tributaries in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He imparts the importance of creek greenways for the communities in Charlotte. He discusses the importanc...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 2, 2012 June 26
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-06-26
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, College students, Universities and colleges--Faculty, United States. Air Force, Military participation--African American, Post-traumatic stress disorder, African American churches, Church controversies
Description: In this second of four interviews, Harold Pulley, UNC Charlotte alumnus, recounts his college and military careers, discussing his time at Livingstone College, Gaston Technical Institute, and UNC Charlotte, as well as in the Navy Reserve and the A...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 3, 2012 July 18
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-07-18
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movement, Peace movements, College students, African American college students--Political activity, African American college students--Attitudes, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Racism in education, Race relations--Education (Higher)
Description: In this third of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley discusses his student experience at UNC Charlotte during the late 1960s and his connection to the civil rights movement in North Carolina. He describes Bonnie Cone's manner of speaking and i...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 4, 2012 August 28
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-08-28
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movement, African Americans--Education (Higher), African American college students--Political activity, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Health insurance
Description: In this fourth of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley resumes where he left off in the previous interview discussing Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, specifically regarding the reaction at UNC Charlotte. He traces the history of black u...

Title: Harvey Murphy oral history interview, 2012 August 15
Creator: Murphy, Harvey Frank, 1930-
Date Created: 2012-08-15
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, College sports, African Americans--Civil rights, African American college athletes, Kinesiology--Study and teaching, Universities and colleges--Faculty
Description: In this interview, Dr. Harvey Murphy, long-time faculty member and athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses his career at the university. He begins by recalling his first impressions of the fledgling campus in ...

Title: J. Daniel White oral history interview 2, 2018 May 14
Creator: White, J. Daniel
Date Created: 2018-05-14
Subjects--Topical: Protest movements, Race relations, Hate groups
Description: In this second of two interviews, Dr. J. Daniel White gives additional reflections on his life and his work as a professor in the Religious Studies Department at UNC Charlotte. [All times are approximate] [00:00] He describes a startling experienc...

Title: J. Kenneth Sanford oral history interview, 2012 April 17
Creator: Sanford, J. Kenneth
Date Created: 2012-04-17
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, Public universities and colleges--Administration, Universities and colleges--Public relations, African Americans--Civil rights, Feminism
Description: In this interview, J. Kenneth (Ken) Sanford, long-time Director of Public Information and Publications at UNC Charlotte, shares his perspective of the process of Charlotte College becoming the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, first as an...