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Interview with Willeme Haigler
No full textWilleme Haigler of Hiawassee, Ga, describing Egg Carton from C.L. Young. The egg carton is from the 1950s, and C.L. Young would become Kimsey Egg Company. Willeme gives an account of the maternal lineage of the Walls and the Dyers.Interview with Willeme Haigle
Ann Pullen
No full textAnn Pullen was born in Newnan, Georgia and grew up in Happeville. Ann attended the University of Georgia where she obtained a Bachelor's in Math. Following undergraduate she pursued a Masters Degree in History, encouraged by a professor of history which she took several of electives in history from. Pullen did her Master's thesis on the Know-Nothing Party in Georgia, who were officially called the American Party. Ann started teaching around 1966 at a highschool, getting her Master's in 1967 from the University of Georgia. Pullen recieved her Ph.D in 1975 from Georgia State University, with her dissertation covering the Commission of Interacial Cooperation (CIC). Following and prior to her graduation, Pullen taught at Clayton State and Dekalb College part-time. Around 1976, Ann was hired as Kennesaw was transitioning to being a 4 year college. Pullen then discusses her work and time in the History Department at Kennesaw State University.Oral History with Ann Pulle
Brian Wills
No full textBrian Wills is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University. was born in 1959 in Virginia. His mother was a school teacher and his father was a farmer. Wills attended the University of Richmond where he recieved his Bachelors in History. Wills attended the University of Georgia for his Graduate Studies and stayed there for his Ph.D which he recieved in 1991. Brian taught at Georgia Southern for 2 years before moving back to Virginia to teach at Clinch Valley College (now renamed to University of Virginia's College at Wise). Wills made his way to Kennesaw State University in 2014, brought here in part due to its proximity to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield and has remained at KSU untilhis retirement in 2024.Oral History with Brian Will
Dr. Ron C. Newcomb
No full textDr. Ronald C. Newcomb was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1949, but grew up in southwest Georgia near his mother's childhood home. He graduated from Lee County High School in 1967, received an AA degree from Albany Junior College in 1969, and earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Georgia 1971. For the next ten years he was a graduate student in Political Science at UGA, earning an MA in 1978 and finishing everything but the dissertation for a PhD. His career plans changed, however, when he did an internship in 1980 at the Georgia General Assembly where he met Joe Frank Harris, who at the time was chair of the House Appropriations Committee. When Harris ran for governor, Newcomb worked for the campaign as research director. When Harris won, Newcomb served the next four years as Special Assistant to the Governor. The Harris administration was noted for its educational reforms, and Newcomb played a role in the development of the 1985 Quality Basic Education Act and the creation of the Board of Postsecondary Vocational Education. In 1988 Newcomb was chosen to be a vice president of the newly created North Metro Technical College in Governor Harris' home county of Bartow. He arrived before a single building had been constructed or student enrolled and remained for the next couple of decades, with the exception of the years 1999-2002 when he was on assignment to state government as educational advisor for Governor Roy Barnes. Throughout this time, he lived in Smyrna and also held elected office for twenty years (1991 to 2011) as a city councilman, working with the city leadership on a number of redevelopment projects. During the Great Recession of 2007-09, pressures mounted for the merger of area technical schools, and Newcomb worked on a committee supporting the consolidation in 2009 of North Metro with Chattahoochee Technical College and Appalachian Technical College. By then he had returned to graduate school to earn an EdD in higher education from the University of Georgia with a 2011 dissertation appropriate to the problems of the day, titled "Understanding the Resistance of County Leaders to the Mergers of Technical Colleges in Georgia." At the time of the merger, he was acting president of North Metro. When the three school were consolidated as Chattahoochee Tech, he became provost and executive vice president. Then in 2012 he moved up to the presidency, a position he held until his retirement at the end of August 2024.Oral History with Dr. Ron C. Newcom
Interview with Shirley Hunter
No full textIn this audio recording, Shirley Hunter shares images and items from the Osborn family of Towns County.Interview with Shirley Hunte
Vanessa Slinger-Friedman
No full textA native of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman received three degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1994 she was class valedictorian as she earned a BA in Geography. In 1996 she earned an MA in Latin American Studies with a thesis on the use of agroforestry for Amazonian urban resettlement in a city in Brazil. For her PhD in Geography she spent a year in Dominica researching her dissertation on “Ecotourism in a Small Caribbean Island,” which evaluates a special type of tourism for people interested in visiting untouched places and enjoying the local culture without disturbing the natural environment.
By the time she earned her doctorate in December 2002, she had moved to Georgia and begun teaching part-time at Kennesaw State that fall. Impressed with her students and faculty colleagues and the teaching focus at KSU, she applied and received a full-time, tenure-track position for the next year. One of only a handful of KSU faculty members in her discipline at the time, she was able to help develop new courses such as Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean. For a number of years, she was faculty advisor to the Geography Club and the Caribbean Students Association.
From the beginning she worked with her students and colleagues, especially Jason Rhodes, on a variety of environmental and community projects including the KSU Food Forest and the OwlSwap Clothing Exchange. The Food Forest demonstrates how poor communities in urban food deserts can utilize small spaces to provide nutritious supplements to one’s diet such as fruit and nuts, promoting food security and health while mitigating climate change. The idea of the OwlSwap grew out of a class taught by Dr. Rhodes on the geography of clothing and provided a mechanism for students to practice sustainability by swapping clothes they were no longer wearing for someone else’s used clothing. It also gave students an economical means of acquiring professional dress for job interviews.
Dr. Slinger-Friedman partnered with colleague Lynn Patterson on papers in the scholarship of teaching and learning, analyzing writing in geography classes. She has also conducted research in her field on Vetiver grass and its value in the Caribbean for controlling soil erosion. Her work has resulted in a number of awards. In 2016 she was the recipient of the Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award for the University System of Georgia. In 2018 she received the Higher Education Distinguished Teaching Award from the National Council for Geographic Education. In 2019 she received the KSU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award. Most recently, she was given the Environmental Education Award from Keep Cobb Beautiful in Cobb County, Georgia.Oral History with Vanessa Slinger-Friedma
Interview with Mickey Wilson
No full textIn this interview, Mickey Wilson describes several photogrpahs and items from her family history.Interview with Mickey Wilso
Interview with Sandra Green
No full textIn this interview, Sandra Bradshaw Green shares items from the Bradshaw family. This includes her father, Neal Bradshaw. She shares photographs, a hunting license, and a family bible. The Bradshaws were avid hunters, and came to Towns County from Tate City in Rabun County. These items are also connected to the Hooper and Tatum families.Interview with Sandra Bradshaw Green
Emily Yehezkel Interview, May 22, 2024
No full textBorn in Queens, New York, in 1996, Emily Yehezkel grew up on Long Island, the youngest grandchild of Martin Brown, a Holocaust survivor. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1928 Martin died when Emily was five years old. She did not learn her grandfather's full story until she was a young adult. Through archival research and connections with family members in the Czech Republic, she learned about his imprisonment in the Mukacs ghetto in Hungary and subsequent deportation to Auschwitz. She also learned of his survival of death marches to Buchenwald and Dachau. After liberation, Martin found his way to a DP camp in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1947. As a third generation Holocaust survivor, Emily has committed herself to sharing her grandfather's story with the world.Oral History with Emily Yehezkel, youngest grandchild of Martin Brown, a Holocaust survivor
Adrijana Jahirović Interview, April 2, 2024
No full textAdrijana was born in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina in 1980. Adrijana was 12 when fighting broke out in Yugoslavia and bore witness to the conflict and genocide as it began to unfold in her city. She arrived in Syracuse, New York when she was 14 and moved to Georgia after turning 16 as her father hated the cold. Adrijana went on to follow a career in education where she is still incredibly active to this day.Oral history interview with Adrijana Jahirović, who was 12 when fighting broke out in Yugoslavia and bore witness to the Yugoslav War unbfolding in her city