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Leia Hannum Interview
No full textLeia Hannum (Class of 2022) was interviewed by Sabrina Simien in the Oral History Studio of Fondren Library at Southern Methodist University on July 29th, 2022. Ms. Hannum was born in California and was raised in Lake Arrowhead by her mother and father. After moving to Texas, she attended the Woodlands College Park High School before choosing to enroll at SMU. Ms. Hannum attended SMU from August 2018 to May of 2022, when she earned a degree in Accounting and Creative Writing. During her time at SMU, Ms. Hannum volunteered in the Consult Your Community program while working as a dance teacher and Student Ambassador. She also participated in the RLSH Street Team and Human Rights program at SMU. In addition, she co-founded the PRIDE Project at SMU and partnered with the Voices of SMU project to interview PRIDE members of the SMU community. Since graduating from SMU, Ms. Hannum has worked as a Forensic Intern at KPMG US in Dallas, Texas. During her interview, Ms. Hannum discussed her childhood, told stories about her college life, her experiences as a member of the LGBTQ+ community at SMU, and her future goals in life
Harvey Luna Interview
No full textHarvey Luna (Class of 2014) was interviewed by Brett Fearer in the Norwick Center for Digital Solutions on March 31st, 2022. Mr. Luna was born in 1991 and grew up in Dallas, Texas as the oldest of five siblings. He gained a love for economics from his high school economics teacher, as well as growing up in a low-income family. He attended SMU from 2010-2014 where he graduated with his degree in political science and economics. While attending SMU, he was a member of SMU SPECTRUM, which was a student organization advocating for the representation and rights of LGBTQ+ students. He discusses his experiences with other members of SPECTRUM and debates within the group, as well as the struggle for the creation of an LGBTQ+ student senator position, and the failure to create such a position in a referendum in 2012. He also talks about issues of imbalanced funding of student organizations. Mr. Luna was also involved in the recreation of the SMU Pride Alumni Board and remained a member at the time of the interview, and was working at SMU as a Senior Program Specialist for the Center on Research and Evaluation
Joe Watkins Interview
No full textJoe Watkins, Ph.D., (Class of 1977, PhD 1994) was interviewed by Laura Narvaez via the Zoom internet-based video conferencing software on October 18, 2022. Dr. Watkins was born in February 1951 in Talihina, Oklahoma. He divided his time growing up between Oklahoma City during the school year and summers with his Choctaw grandmother in southeastern Oklahoma. His grandmother's homestead didn't have electricity or running water. He spoke about spending time outside playing, fishing, and hunting to entertain himself. He received his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma. He applied for a Ford Foundation grant to pay for graduate school on a whim after finding an informational flier in the OU library. He received the grant for two years of his master's program. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with his master's in anthropology with a specialization in archeology in 1977. Dr. Watkins discussed his initial difficulties in his master's program, including the lack of preparation he had about the differences between undergraduate and graduate education. Because of his grant, his advisor suggested he take as many classes as he could, resulting in Dr. Watkins being overloaded with 20 hours of graduate coursework his first semester. After completing his comprehensive exams, he conducted a nine-month experiment where he lived in a pit house of his own construction for his dissertation research. At the end of the experiment, he attempted to burn the pit house down and accidentally set his hair on fire. Ultimately, it was decided that there was not enough comparable research for him to use in his dissertation and he decided to settle for a terminal master's degree. After his son was born in 1991, he decided to go back to SMU to complete his doctoral degree. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from SMU in 1994. He spoke about the opportunities he had received as a result of acquiring his Ph.D., especially his service as the second American Indian president of the Society of American Archeology from 2019-2021
[John Wesley to Joseph Benson, 1777 January 11]
No full textLondon
January 11, 1777
Dear Joseph,
The matter is short. I require you to meet the societies of Sunderland and Shields next quarter and to give no ticket to any person who will not promise neither to buy nor sell uncustomed goods any more. I am sorry Benjamin Rhodes did not save you the trouble. I thought he had been another man.
Pray worry John Reed till he writes a substantial account. It must be done while things are fresh in his memory, otherwise we shall lose many particulars which ought not to be forgotten.
They have made good haste to finish the preaching-house at Sheephill already. I thought it had hardly been begun.
I have just received two letters from New York; one of them from George Robinson, late of Newcastle. They inform me: [1)] that all the Methodists there were firm for the [English] government, and on that account persecuted by the rebels, only not to the death; [2)] that the preachers are still threatened, but not stopped; and [3)] the work of God increases much in Maryland and Virginia.
I am, dear Joseph,
Yours affectionately,
J. WesleyLetter from John Wesley to Joseph Benson
[John Wesley to Zachariah Yewdall, 1780 July 24]
No full textBristol
July 24, 1780
My Dear Brother,
Next year you will be in the Glamorganshire [circuit], and with a fellow-labourer who has the work of God at heart.
If Billy Moore mentions it in time, your temporal wants will easily be supplied. Trials are only blessings in disguise. Whenever anything bears hard upon your mind, you should write freely to
Your affectionate brother,
J. WesleyLetter from John Wesley to Zachariah Yewdall