Cimarron High School Oral/Video History Projects
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Students enrolled in the Cimarron High School Junior English class have been collecting oral/video histories as a class project for the past ten years. Most of the people interviewed are from Cimarron or the Gray County area, however, some of the students interviewed family members from other cities and states. Subjects include school activities, life while growing up, and historical events. The interviews follow in alphabetical order by last name:
Subjects include: Life in the 1920s & 1930s; DustBowl
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LEROY ADDISON: Transcript/Video
Subjects include: school activities; life in the 1930s and 1940s; World War II.
Subjects include: school activities; ; life in the 1950s and 1960; Vietnam War and military service.
Subjects include Vietnam War.
(No transcript available at this time)
Subjects include: school activities; life in the 1950s & 1960s; Vietnam War.
(Interview not available – data was corrupted on disc)
Subjects include: school activities; life in the 1930s and 1940s; Dust Storms; Depression; WWII Homefront.
NORMAN R. ERKIE: Transcript/Audio
Subject: Vietnam War
LAYTON GLEASON: Transcript/Video
Subjects include: school activities and sports; life in the 1950s; World War II and relative’s experience in POW camp.
ROBERT L. HUGHES: Transcript/Audio
Subject: Vietnam War
GEORGIA HUTCHINSON: Transcript/Video
Subjects include: The Great Depression; Dust Bowl.
WANDA INGRAM: Transcript/Audio
Summary – not transcript
SUSIE B. KOEHN: Transcript/Audio
Subjects include: The Depression; Dust Bowl
No transcript available at this time. Subjects include WWII.
Subjects include WWII.
(No transcript available at this time)
CHET REXFORD: Transcript/Video
Subjects include: school activities and sports; the Depression; Dust Bowl; coyotes and jackrabbit drives; World War II; flying and skydiving; arrowheads.
PHIL RIDENOUR: Transcript/Audio
Subjects include: school activities; life in the 1950s & 1960s; the Cold War; Cuban Missile Crisis.
MARGARET (MARGE) SAUER: Transcript/Video
Subjects include: Dirty Thirties – Dust Bowl; school activities and life during the 1930s; Jack Rabbit drives.
ARMANDO SAUZAMEDA: Transcipt/Video
Interview is in Spanish – “Entrevista con Armando Sauzameda Acerca de su Venida a los Estados Unidos”. The interview is about coming to the United States from Mexico in 1974.
CALVIN SCHROEDER: Transcript/Video
Calvin Schroeder’s Dutch background; experience with country school, college; memories of the Depression, dust storms, hobos; Housekeeping in the thirties; coyotes and jackrabbit drives; radio and the travel of news; World War II; experience of learning English; carpentry.
NANCY SCHROEDER: Transcript/Video
Subjects include: school activities; life in the 1930s, 1940s & 1950s; Korean War
Subjects include: school activities; life in the 1960s; world events in 1960s; Vietnam War.
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DEXTER DEAN SMITH: Transcript/Audio
Subject: WWII
LAVON TIMKEN: Transcript/Audio 1/Audio 2
Subjects include: school activities; life in 1930s & 1940s; Dust Bowl; Jack Rabbit drives; WWII & Homefront; college life.
Subjects include Korean War.
(No transcript available at this time)