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7/27/23 email from Ruth Wall to Andrew Jackson at AJC re: Tom Moreland and CAUTION Road Busters
No full textCopy of an email by Ruth Wall to Andrew Jackson of the AJC about CAUTION and Tom MorelandCopy of an email by Ruth Wall to Andrew Jackson of the AJC about CAUTION and Tom Morelan
Mel Price Interview, December 6, 2023
No full textMelvin (Mel) Price was born in Dunkirk, New York, on January 23, 1926. The son of a World War I veteran, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps after graduating high school in 1943, hoping to enroll in the aviation cadet training program. Instead, he was trained as a radio operator and assigned to a B-29 crew. Between 1944 and 1946, Price was based on Tinian Island and flew firebombing and POW missions over Japan until he was honorably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant. After the war, Price married his wife, Marie, took an engineering course through the GI Bill, and then worked for Bethlehem Steel for forty years. His Legacy Series interview was recorded in his home in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, in 2023.Interview of Mel Price, a World War II veteran who served as a Radio Operator and assigned to a B-29 Crew
Charles Lamar Crawley Jr. Interview, April 19, 2023
No full textBorn in Atlanta, on March 21, 1926, Charles Lamar Crawley, Jr. was raised in the West End neighborhood. After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Crawley joined the Georgia State Guard where he supported the U.S. Army as a Morse code radio operator near Brunswick, Georgia, with duty on the islands of Ossabaw, Little Cumberland, and Little St. Simons. After four months, the State Guard operation was recalled and Crawley returned to Atlanta, now old enough to join the U.S. Navy. Crawley served with the Navy in California as an air traffic controller during World War II and then as a Reserve officer in the Philippines during the Korean War. He recorded his Legacy Series oral history at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education in 2023, shortly after his 97th birthday.Oral history interview of Charles Lamar Crawley Jr. who served with the Navy in California as an air traffic controller during World War II and then as a Reserve officer in the Philippines during the Korean War
Trent Turk
No full textTrent Turk was born in Hawkinsville, Georgia moving around the state until they settled in Sandersville, Georgia. Turk attended school there and upon graduating highschool attended Middle Georgia College in an associate Civil Engineering Technology program. Mr. Turk transferred to Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) following the completion of his associate program. He worked full time while attending SPSU and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering Technology with a land surveying focus in 1986. Mr. Turk worked for various surveying companies before founding his own, GeoSurvey, Ltd. in 1996. Trent Turk served as a trustee on both the Souther Polytechnic University Foundation and the Kennesaw State University Foundation. Turk served on the trustee during the time of the consolidation of the two universities.Trent Turk was the original founder and former owner of GeoSurvey, Ltd. a land surveying company. Mr. Turk served as a trustee on both the Souther Polytechnic University Foundation and the Kennesaw State University Foundation
Jerry Orzechowski Interview, August 31, 2023
No full textBorn in Poland in 1942, Jerry Orzechowski could not remember a time when his family was not on the run from the Nazis. His home village of Majdan, near the town of Kovel, was occupied first by the Russians, and then by the Germans following Operation Barbarossa. Certain that their partisan sympathies would result in their deportation to Auschwitz, the Orzechowskis hid with family and friends until, in 1944, they were caught and sent to Dachau. There, they survived as slave laborers until the U.S. Army liberated the camp in April 1945. Their hometown now a part of the U.S.S.R., the Orzechowskis stayed in Displaced Persons camps until they were able to immigrate to the United States in 1949 were they worked off their debts on an Iowa Farm. After graduating high school in 1961, Jerry enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard during the Vietnam War. After the war, he settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked for AT&T for thirty years and raised two children with his wife, Barbara.Oral history interview of Jerry Orzechowski, whose family was on the run from nazis and were sent to Dachau in 1944. Following there eventual immigration to the U.S., Jerry enlisted in the U.S. Navy after graduating high school in 1961 and served aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard during the Vietnam War
Rabbi Steven J. Lebow
No full textRabbi Steven Lebow was born on March 18, 1955 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Rabbi Lebow attended Kenyon College where he met his mentor Eugen Kullmann, a professor of religion at Kenyon College, and founded the Union of Jewish Students there. Having Graduated in 1977 from Kenyon College, he attended Hebrew Union College initially to pursue a Ph.D. before going into rabbinical studies. Following his graduation in 1983, Rabbi Lebow worked as an assistant rabbi at Temple Sinai in New Orleans where he worked primarily with teens and kids. He became the first permanent full-time rabbi at Temple Kol Emeth in 1986. Rabbi Lebow retired in 2020 from his position as Senior Rabbi at Temple Kol Emeth.Oral history of Rabbi Steven J. Lebow first full-time spiritual leader of Temple Kol Emeth
Lisa Cupid
No full textLisa Cupid is the Chairwoman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners. She has served on the Cobb Board of Commissioners since 2013 and in 2020 was elected Cobb’s first black and first female Chair in 2020. Some of her accomplishments include expanding transit service, improving citizen education and engagement, and advocating for enhanced public safety measures, including using license plate readers, additional body cameras, and implementing a public safety nuisance abatement program. In this interview Lisa talks about her path towards public service and what led her to it.Oral history of Lisa Cupid, the Chairwoman of Cobb County's Board of Commisioners
Kennesaw State University, Undergraduate Catalog, 2023-2024
No full textUndergraduate programs of study, tuition and fees, academic calendar, academic policies, degree requirements, and course descriptions for the 2023-2024 school year
Photo of house facade decorated with artwork of notable Georgia politicians (John Lewis, Stacey Abrams, etc.)
No full textPhotograph of a house with artwork showing Stacey Abrams, John Lewis, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, and Shirley Chisholm. This New Orleans house was decorated for Mardi Gras. The photo is signed to Cathy Bradshow by Jon Ossoff.Photograph of a New Orleans house with artwork showing Democratic politicans
Bob Geer Interview, February 25, 2023
No full textBob Geer was born on May 21st, 1924, in Charlotte, NC. He was the youngest of four siblings to parents- James and Hattie Geer. James Geer ran a shoe shop and a restaurant before the 1929 Depression hit the Geer family hard. Prior to the 1929 Depression, the Geer family lived in the Camp Green section of Charlotte, N.C. before the family moved back to Gilkey, N.C. where Bob’s parents were from. Bob developed an interest in art from his grandmother and mother who were self-taught artists, often using charcoal from their fire to sketch. Bob began piano lessons at age 5 and was often taught for free or in exchange for food items from the family farm. As Bob grew up, his love for the visual arts and music grew into keenly pursued hobbies. Bob attended King’s Business College where upon his graduation started working for Southern Railway Company (now Norfolk Southern Railway following its merger with Norfolk and Western Railway). He was then drafted into WWII where he initially trained to be an infantryman. Following travel to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Mr. Geer heard that the Inspector General for the Alaska Defense Command was looking for someone with business experience to help run his office. Bob volunteered and began working in such a capacity during WWII. At the end of World War II, after serving in the US Army, Bob returned to North Carolina, where he matriculated at the University of Chapel Hill under the G.I. Bill. Soon after, Bob was offered a position at Southern Railway Company which he initially turned down. He was then given a second offer, which he accepted, with the thought of eventually returning to Chapel Hill, which never came to fruition. Bob was quickly promoted and transferred to Washington DC as Executive Secretary to the President. He traveled across the country with the President of Southern Railway meeting top leaders of businesses across America. Bob’s career at Southern Railway led to the marketing department and eventually to Atlanta where Bob was named Vice President of Industrial Development and Real Estate. While in DC, Bob met and married the love of his life, Mary Boyle. Later they welcomed their only son, Robert Jr., who became a world traveler and a Francophile. Mary Geer passed away in 2008, and 5 years later, Robert Jr. passed away at the age of 59.Oral history of Bob Geer who served as a Vice President of Southern Railway Company prior to his retirement