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Missouri State Magazine, 2017 (September)
No full textAn issue of Missouri State Magazine for Missouri State University. Volume 12, Issue 3
Clifford Underwood interview
No full textInterview with Clifford Underwood, alumni of Missouri State University, by MSU Dean of Library Services Tom Peters. Interview took place at the Grant's View Branch of the St. Louis County Libraries in Missouri, on August 25, 2016. Topics discussed include one room schools, squirrel hunting, automobile travel in the 1930s and 1940s, Route 66, heavy construction work, laborers and hod carriers, railroad construction, Central Technical Institute, libraries, books, Southwest Baptist College (later Southwest Baptist University), Southwest Missouri State University (later Missouri State University), railroad travel, boarding houses, working to pay for college, Greenwood School, meeting spouse, St. Louis Missouri, old Meramec River bridge, Kansas City Missouri, military service, and teaching
Missouri State Magazine, 2016 (Summer)
No full textAn issue of Missouri State Magazine for Missouri State University. Volume 11, Issue 2
Missouri State Magazine, 2016 (Fall)
No full textAn issue of Missouri State Magazine for Missouri State University. Volume 11, Issue 3
Tom and Helen Stevens
No full textInterview with Tom and Helen Stevens by MSU Dean of Library Services Tom Peters. Interview took place at the Stevens' home in Columbia, Missouri, on August 12, 2016.
Topics discussed include the area of Nevada and El Dorado Springs in Missouri; moving to California during the Great Depression; Springfield, Missouri; Missouri State University; square dancing and MSU's Promenaders; L.D. Keller; Professor Florence Baker Bugg; Nashville, Tennessee; Ozark Jubilee show and Red Foley; Half-A-Hill area of Springfield, Missouri; the Jewel Theater, Shrine Mosque, and College Inn in Springfield; MSU's ROTC; donating blood; being in Europe with the military and doing drill exhibitions (Germany, Belgium) including a lion; MSU's library and Academic Hall (Carrington Hall); Fitzsimons Army Hospital near Denver, Colorado, during the Vietnam War; the cost of going to MSU; Professor James Shannon and Dean James Bane; and Promenaders John Tillman and Jim Molder
Clarence Lawson interview
No full textInterview with Clarence Lawson, alum of Missouri State University, by MSU Dean of Library Services Tom Peters. Interview took place at the Duane G. Meyer Library on the campus of Missouri State University, on October 29, 2016.
Topics discussed include growing up on a farm in Laclede County Missouri near Lebanon, the Great Depression, attending and teaching in one room schools, Lebanon High School, Southwest Missouri State Teachers College (later Missouri State University), teaching in Eldon Missouri, school activities and recreation, working as Director of Elementary Education, transition from teaching to school administration, desegregation of schools, discipline of students, Clarence Lawson Elementary School in Jefferson City Missouri, teachers at Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, studying at the College library in Carrington Hall, college testing, one room school grading system, and special needs students
Missouri State Magazine, 2016 (Spring)
No full textAn issue of Missouri State Magazine for Missouri State University. Volume 11, Issue 1
John Schweke interview
No full textInterview with John Schweke by Alex Primm on June 8, 2015, at Greystone Heights Motor Court in Springfield, Missouri. Part of the "Birthplace: Greater Springfield Route 66 Oral History Project."
Topics discussed include Route 66; Memorial Day; Margaret Brewer; Russel Schweke; the Route 66 Association of Missouri; Boots Motor Court in Carthage, Missouri; Springfield, Missouri; and locations in Springfield such as Kickapoo High School, R&S Floral, and Greystone Heights Motor Court
Irv Logan, Jr. interview- transcript
No full textTranscript of interview with Irv Logan, Jr., by Tom Peters, Dean of Library Services at Missouri State University. Interview conducted on March 13, 2015, at The Green Center in University City, Missouri. Part of the "Birthplace: Greater Springfield Route 66 Oral History Project." Topics discussed include Route 66; African Americans; Ozarks Jubilee; the Philharmonics; Brenda Lee; Alberta Ellis; St. Louis, Missouri; Springfield, Missouri; and Springfield locations, such as Alberta's Hotel, Alberta's Snack Bar and Cafe, Graham's Rib Station, Landers Theatre, and the Crystal Lounge. Recording can be accessed here: http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/archives/Route66/IRVLOGA
Abraham Clark interview, December 9, 2015- transcript
No full textTranscript of an interview with Abraham Clark by Samuel Knox, Jr., on December 9, 2015, at Deliverance Temple in Springfield, Missouri. Part of the "Birthplace: Greater Springfield Route 66 Oral History Project."
Topics discussed include Route 66; African Americans; Native Americans (Cherokee); police discrimination; housing discrimination; job discrimination; the Vietnam War; the Marine Corps; Disabled American Veterans; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Buford, South Carolina; Joplin, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; Springfield, Missouri; Springfield Apartment and Housing Association; the Walter Majors Classic Car Club; the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Frisco) and a strike; the Solomon Woods murder; and Springfield locations, such as Pipkin Junior High, Eastwood School, Central High School, Sunset Drive-In, Don Low's restaurant, Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Paul Mueller Company, Graham's Barbecue, Springfield Drive-In, Fox Theater, Gillioz Theater, and Landers Theater. Recording can be accessed here: http://purl.missouristate.edu/library/archives/Route66/ACLARK12091