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The interview opens with Dr. David Brauner mentioning his position at Oregon State University and his professional specialization and interests. He briefly describes his work on Civil War-era military forts in western Oregon, namely Forts Hoskins,…

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The interview opens with a discussion of Vars’ childhood, which he briefly describes before moving on to talk about his experiences as an undergraduate university student. Vars was given a full ride to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute but flunked…

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The interview opens with Warren Hovland describing his early life and his family’s Scandinavian background. He notes that his father was very religious and very conservative, which influenced Hovland to take a religious studies approach to his…

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Dr. Emery Castle was interviewed in 2010 by three graduate students for a qualitative sociology course. Each student took about a half hour to ask questions of Dr. Castle, each focusing on a different period of his life. The interview opens with…

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In this interview, Tower discusses her family life, her experiences at Oregon State University during the 1960s, and her accomplishments over the years as an employee of the university. She begins by describing how her parents met in the Salem,…

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In this interview, Carol Menken-Schaudt discusses her atypical journey from being a nonathletic teenager to becoming a basketball Olympian by her twenties. She stresses that she did not play basketball as a child and that her parents never really…

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In this student-led group interview, Janet Nishihara, Beth Rietveld, and Jo Anne Trow reflect on women’s history at Oregon State University. The interview begins with a discussion of how OSU’s policies towards women have changed over time. Trow…

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Zoe Ann Holmes was born and raised in southeast Kansas in a small college town. She was the middle of five children and she talks extensively about her siblings and other immediate family. Her early interest in science was pushed by her father and…

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Born to an Indiana flour miller, the second of four children, Roberta Hall studied at Duke University and worked in the Journalism Library and the Bookstore. Roberta then moved to Wyoming and continued to take courses, including anthropology. Later…

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In this interview, Miriam “Mimi” Orzech discusses her early life in great detail. Born in New York City to a military doctor, Orzech remembers moving frequently around the U.S. during the Second World War until her family settled outside of…