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Title: Albert A. Maisto oral history interview, 2013 January 22
Creator: Maisto, Albert A. (Albert Anthony)
Date Created: 2013-01-22
Subjects--Topical: Campus planning, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Doctor of philosophy degree, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Dr. Albert A. Maisto, a Bonnie Cone Distinguished Professor of Teaching in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), discusses the many changes he witnessed at the university during the tenure of Dr. James Woodwa...

Title: Brad Keistler oral history interview 2, 2018 March 30
Creator: Keistler, Brad
Date Created: 3/30/2018
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, Gay liberation movement, Youth protest movements, Anti-war demonstrations
Description: In this second of two interviews Brad Keistler, the co-founder of the Charlotte chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s, discusses the background to various documents that he donated to the J. Murrey Atkins Library archive. [All...

Title: Brenda Steadman oral history interview, 2021 April 5
Creator: Steadman, Brenda Glenn
Date Created: 2021-04-05
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, First-generation college students
Description: Brenda Steadman shares her experience as an undergraduate student at UNC Charlotte from August 1970 to May 1974. [All times approximate] Brenda discusses being the first person in her family to attend a four year university [1:42], she shares what...

Title: Charles Lynch oral history interview, 2013 January 25
Creator: Lynch, Chuck, 1945-
Date Created: 2013-01-25
Subjects--Topical: Campus planning, Doctor of philosophy degree, Universities and colleges--Administration, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Charles Lynch discusses his career at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, starting as the Director of Housing from 1973-1978; then the Dean of Students from 1978-1987; and finally the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs from 1987-2007. ...

Title: Cooper, Douglas, Robert Guinn, and Edward Jernigan oral history interview, 2021 May 25
Creator: Cooper, Douglas (W. Douglas)
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 Douglas Cooper, Robert Guinn, and Edward Jernigan in a panel interview. The panelists introduce themselves, discuss their backgroun...

Title: Emil Kratt oral history interview, 2012 March 22
Creator: Kratt, Emil Failing, 1935-
Date Created: 2012-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Deacons, Baptists, Leadership--Philosophy, Women college presidents
Description: In this interview, Emil Kratt, long-time attorney, Charlotte resident, and member of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, shares his memories of Bonnie Cone. He recalls their shared service on the Board of Deacons of Myers Park ...

Title: Gandar, John, Benjamin Russo, and Richard Zuber oral history interview, 2021 May 21
Creator: Gandar, John M.
Date Created: 2021-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Business education
Description: Jay Davis, executive director of external relations for the Belk College of Business interviews emeritus professors John Gandar, Benjamin Russo, and Richard Zuber in a panel interview. The panelists introduce themselves, discuss their backgrounds,...

Title: Gene A. Sloan and Robert M. Schmiel oral history interview, 2015 November 5
Creator: Sloan, Gene Anderson
Date Created: 2015-11-05
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, LGBTQ+ culture, Gay bars, Gay men--Religion, Gay relationships
Description: In this interview, Gene Sloan and Robert (Bobby) Schmiel juxtapose their life as a married couple in 2015 with their young adult lives in the 1970s. Mr. Sloan was raised in Aberdeen, Mississippi and after the age of ten, Mr. Schmiel was raised in ...

Title: Godfrey, Howard, Stephen Jolly, and Bennie Nunnally oral history interview, 2021 May 21
Creator: Godfrey, Howard (L. Howard)
Date Created: 2021-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Business education
Description: Jay Davis, executive director of external relations for the Belk College of Business interviews emeritus professors Howard Godfrey and Bennie Nunnally, and retired professor Stephen Jolly in a panel interview. The panelists introduce themselves, d...

Title: James Horton oral history interview, 2016, December 22
Creator: Horton, James M. (James Marvin)
Date Created: 2016-12-22
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay men, Homophobia, Drugs--Testing, Sex instruction
Description: Dr. James M. Horton, former Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses his career, and in particular his work and long association with treating HIV/AIDS in the Charlotte region. Dr. Horton ...

Title: John C. Quillin oral history interview 1, 2017 March 14
Creator: Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
Date Created: 2017-03-14
Subjects--Topical: Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Gay rights, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Social networks, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs, LGBTQ+ culture
Description: In this first of two interviews, John Quillin, founder and managing artistic director for the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, discusses his involvement in numerous gay and lesbian social and cultural organizations in Charlotte, and his role as...

Title: John C. Quillin oral history interview 2, 2017 March 28
Creator: Quillin, John C. (John Clark), 1959-
Date Created: 2017-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Gay liberation movement, Gay men, Homophobia, AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, Gay choirs
Description: In this second of two interviews John Quillin, founder and managing artistic director of the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte, discusses the challenges he faced as an activist for LGBTQ rights locally and state wide. He specifically describes th...

Title: Joseph G. Jemsek oral history interview, 2017 January 25
Creator: Jemsek, Joseph, 1949-
Date Created: 2017-01-25
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), Gay men, Homophobia, Drugs--Testing, AIDS (Disease)--Patients, AIDS (Disease)--Treatment, Lyme disease
Description: Dr. Joseph Jemsek, infectious disease specialist in private practice in Washington DC and former infectious disease specialist with the Nalle Clinic in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses his experiences treating HIV/AIDS patients in the Charlotte...

Title: Judy W. Rose oral history interview 2, 2013 January 10
Creator: Rose, Judy W. (Judy Wilkins), 1952-
Date Created: 2013-01-10
Subjects--Topical: Athletic directors, College sports, Coaching (Athletics), Urban universities and colleges
Description: Judith (Judy) Wilkins Rose, Director of Athletics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), discusses her association with Chancellor James H. Woodward. Ms. Rose begins by talking about how she came to UNC Charlotte in 1976...

Title: Kimberly Melton oral history interview, 2017 February 9
Creator: Melton, Kimberly A., (Kimberly Ann)
Date Created: 2017-02-09
Subjects--Topical: Women--Religious life, Bisexual women, Lesbian community, AIDS (Disease), Lesbians, Women--Political activity
Description: Kimberly Melton discusses her thirty years as an LGBTQ activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Melton was raised under Catholicism until the age of thirteen--a year in her life she attributes with great importance. While attending junior high s...

Title: Leslie E. Kooyman oral history interview, 2015 September 19
Creator: Kooyman, Leslie E.
Date Created: 2015-09-19
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Safe sex in AIDS prevention, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Gay relationships
Description: Leslie Kooyman, founder and two time executive director (1985-1990 and 1997-2004) of the Metrolina AIDS Project (MAP) the major AIDS service organization (ASO) in Mecklenburg County in operation between 1985 and 2009, discusses the history of the ...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 3, 2019 April 9
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2019-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Gay Activists, Gay Community, Lesbians, Lesbians' writings, Marginality, Social
Description: In 1982, Linda Lawyer and her partner moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. In this third of several interviews, Mrs. Lawyer speaks in-depth about her LGBTQ community activism in Charlotte that began in the 1980s and continued in 2019. As a prominen...

Title: Logsdon, Darryl oral history interview, 2015 September 25
Creator: Logsdon, Darryl
Date Created: 2015-09-25
Subjects--Topical: AIDS (Disease), Coming out (Sexual orientation), Discrimination, Diversity in the workplace, Gay activists, Gay community, Gay men--Political activity, Homophobia
Description: In this interview, Darryl Logsdon recounts his social and professional work as an LGBTQ+ activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Logsdon describes being drawn to Charlotte during the early 1980s both on a visceral level that he decribes as "goo...

Title: Mark and Mindy Robinson oral history interview, 2019 March 18
Date Created: 2019-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Greenhouses, Hydroponics, Farmers' markets
Description: Mark and Mindy Robinson are the owners of Tega Hills Farm in Fort Mill, South Carolina, a two acre urban farm with five hydroponic greenhouses. They employ five full time employees, and distribute their produce through the Matthews Community Farme...

Title: Matthew Watson oral history interview, 2019 April 3
Creator: Watson, Matthew, 1986-
Date Created: 2019-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Livestock farms, Agriculture
Description: Matt Watson is a third-generation cattle farmer in Chester, South Carolina. Mr. Watson, his wife, Kelly Watson, and his father run a 350 acre farm and rent an additional 80 acres. Mr. Watson describes how his grandfather, who was also a farmer, mo...