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Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Philip Thibodeaux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Phil Thibodeaux heads up the Domestics Operations for Chet Morrison Contractors (CMC). Th...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Terge "Ted" Thorjussen conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ted Thorjussen is a native of Oslo, Norway. He started in the ship-broker business, t...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Roy "Scotty" Tibbs conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Scott Tibbs is the president of Gulf Craft, Inc. an aluminum crew boat ship builder locat...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Juan Torres conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Juan Torres was born and raised in Magnolia Park. During the interview he talks about what life...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Robert "Bob" Truxell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Bob Truxell was born in 1924 in Illinois but moved to Nebraska when he was 6. He joined...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jack Valinski conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jack Valinski, one of the three founders of Pride Houston along with Carol Clark and Brian Kee...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This interview was conducted in the office of Dr. Vallbona, 3701 Kirby, Houston, Texas, on July 29, 2006. Dr. Vallbona’s medical services were performed in the Astrodome-Reliant Center, where he e...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tony Vallone conducted as part of the Houston History Project. For Tony Vallone, fine dinning is not defined by the price of the meal or how fancy the dining ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Hank Van Calcar grew up on a ranch in Oregon, and attended Oregon State University to study power engineering. With an additional master’s degree from OSU in hand by 1959, Van Calcar worked on cont...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Kay Van Cleave conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Born in 1937 and moving to Houston in 1953, Kay Van Cleave offers a glimpse into early gay li...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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George Vance grew up in Brooklyn, and from high school shipped off immediately to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Vance would end up spending twenty years in the Coast Guard, the first half as a ship...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Leon Vincken was educated in the Netherlands in mechanical engineering, and joined Shell Oil in 1955. Vincent was immediately sent to Venezuela, where he spent the next decade of his career. Upon r...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Kenneth Waldorf was raised in southern California, and attended both Berkeley and the U.S. Naval Academy. After graduating, Waldorf went directly to work for Exxon in its marine engineering section...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pamela Walker conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pamela Walker is an educator, author, activist, and one of the founders of Houston’s Bayou Cit...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Barry Ward conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Following the destruction of Hurricane Alicia, Trees for Houston was born and focused on planting...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with David Waters conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Native Houstonian David Waters is a Houston Symphony Orchestra musician who plays the trombone ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This interview’s focus was towards to destruction and rebuild efforts of the state parks along the Gulf coast that were struck by Hurricane Ike. This information is intended to be useful for the re...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Marvin Weinberg conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Many of the farmers who came into Houston to sell their produce were members of a community ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with J. Robinson West conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Robin West received his B.A. from University of North Carolina and his J.D. from Temple Uni...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jr. Westell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Casey Westell, Jr., former Director of Tenneco’s Industrial Ecology Department (Chief Ecolog...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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On September 13th, 2016, Houston History Magazine interviewed seven Wheatley alumni to discuss the now non-existent Turkey Day Classic football game that used to occur between Phyllis Wheatley Seni...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Steven Wheeler hailed from Montana, from which he followed his father’s career into the oil industry and eventually to Houston. Wheeler earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M, and...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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In this interview, Nancy Beck Young talks with former Texas Governor Mark White on a variety of topics related to his career, as well as state and national politics. He discusses the political shif...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Carl Wickizer conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Carl Wickizer went to work for Shell in 1954 after graduating from Oklahoma State University i...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Phil Wilbourn studied at Tennessee Tech University on a baseball scholarship, and graduated in 1966 with an engineering degree in hand. In 1967, Wilbur signed on with Texaco, and worked for two yea...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Lou Wilkerson grew up in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and he took a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arkansas. Subsequently, Wilkerson went to work for Shell in 1961, and later comp...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Eldridge "Tot" Williams conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Eldridge "Tot" Williams was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in 1927. His father, Geo...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with David Work conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dave Work was a top exploration manager for Amoco for many years and then with BP-Amoco after the...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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On October 11, 2016, Nathan Fannin interviewed Bill Worrell to discuss his career in broadcast and professional basketball in Houston. Worrell speaks about his beginnings at the University of Houst...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Henry "Dickie" Written conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Henry "Dickie" Written was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in 1937 but was r...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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In Fall 2015, Houston History Magazine interviewed five alumni of Yates High School to discuss the Turkey Day Classic football game that saw the competition between Phyllis Wheatley and Jack Yates ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Joe Young conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Joe Young attended Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana and received a degree in Geology. H...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Brigitte Zabak conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Brigitte Zabak is a native Houstonian whose parents came to the United States from Ramallah, ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Peter Zweig conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jackson Fox is a student leader of the Three Continents Program at the Gerald D. Hines College o...