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Allen Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Allen Gee, currently the Donald L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing in Columbus State University, was born in 1962 in Astoria, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Queens, New York. He grew up with a family background of restaurant owners (his grandfather) and laundry owners (his mother’s side), which are stereotypical Asian immigrant jobs. However, on the contrary, Gee’s father, who was an engineer, is not a stereotypical Asian in many ways. He founded the Gee Family Association and is a vocal, romantic, and unconventional person who doesn’t hold himself back, and is a life explorer. The family bond and mindset became a major component in Gee’s personal values. As an athlete in high school, Gee later became a voracious reader and writer in college. Throughout his career, he had a number of mentors, among which most notably, the late James Alan McPherson, who Gee is now the designated biographer for. He earned a BA in Secondary English Teaching at the University of New Hampshire. He studied for his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he met McPherson. Gee earned his PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Houston. He is married to the novelist Renee Dodd, and has two daughters, Ashley and Willa. He’s the author of the essay collection, “My Chinese-America,” for which he was awarded the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. He is currently completing a novel, “The Iron Road” that chronicles the lives of Chinese railroad workers building the Central Pacific Line in 1866; as well as "That Little Marcella", a novel; and “Multicultural Americana,” which is the working title for the upcoming collection of essays. Gee is planning to work for another 7 years until retirement at 65
Gordon Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Gordon Gee was born in New Orleans and lost his father at an early age. He went back to China and returned to the United States as a teenager. He worked at a Gee family grocery store and later at a Gee-owned restaurant. After a few years he opened the first Chinese-owned meat supply company. He became very successful and branched out into other businesses, such as a roofing company and real estate ventures
Harry Gee Jr. oral history interview on love
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Harry Gee, Jr. is the owner and founder of his own law offices, Harry Gee Jr. and Associates, here in Houston. His firm specializes in immigration law, although they have ample experience in several other areas. Mr. Gee was born in China, but grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Houston for most of his life. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, Mr. Gee worked at his father's restaurant along with his mother and siblings. He attended public school in Houston and went on to Rice University, where he studied economics and business. Mr. Gee then moved to Austin, Texas where he attended the University of Texas Law School and finished his degree in 29 months. Mr. Gee worked in Austin at the Attorney General's Office, enjoying success as a young attorney, but later decided that he wanted to return to Houston to be closer to family. He founded his law offices when he moved back and has been working there ever since. Mr. Gee's family is well-known in Houston; the first generation of Gees brought several restaurateurs and other entrepreneurs who broke into the business community, while several of the second generation have achieved high status as successful professionals. The Gees are very involved not only in the Asian and Chinese communities but also in the broader Houston
community—and give back through organizations as the Gee Family Association
Henry S. Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Henry Gee came to American as a teenager and lived with his grandparents in Louisiana. He
later moved to Mississippi but could not attend school with the whites. Therefore, Henry came
to Houston, attended school in Houston with the whites. Meanwhile he worked in Harry Gee Sr.'s
restaurant and lived with Harry Gee Sr. After high school, he went into the US merchant marine, and then
the Navy. After his military service, Henry attended UT Austin on a GI bill. Upon graduation he was
hired by Texas Highway Department. He started the first Chinese school in Houston, called the Institute
of Chinese Culture, with a group of other people. He was president of the school
Raymond Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Mr. Raymond Gee is a successful self-made businessman. He was born in China and immigrated to the US when he was about ten years old. He was in San Francisco for about three years, and then came to Houston to work in his brother's grocery business. In this interview he reflects on his life and on his business success
Alvin Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textBorn to a Chinese immigrant family in Houston on August 26, 1954, Alvin Gee grew up with a passion for photography. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Houston, where he also worked as a yearbook photographer and directed his own television program called Campus Workshop at Channel 39. After graduating from college, he worked for a commercial photography studio for a few years before starting his own photography business in 1979. Having done wedding photography for 25 years, Alvin Gee’s business now focuses on family portraits, executive headshots, and commercial photography. Named Photographer of the Year four times by the Professional Photographers Guild of Houston, he is a member of the organization Cameracraftsmen of America and has served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Professional Photographers Association. Outside work, he is an active member of Houston’s First Baptist Church and the Gee Family Association. He is a devoted husband and father to his wife and two adult children
Author and artist George Gee. Flutters from Side Street Volume One.
No full textIn 1992, George Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton opened Side Street Espresso, on G Street in downtown Anchorage. Soon the daily white boards for the cafe mirrored the intensity of contemporary American culture with social and political caricatures and commentary. Whereas George would erase each board at the end of the day, starting in 1997, he began to preserve the artwork, which resulted in the book, Flutters from Side Street: Volume One, Dry Erase Drawings, Social and Political Commentary, and Reflections From A Morning Walk To Work. The book is an amazing collection of dry erase drawings that highlight pieces of Anchorage and American history
Nathaniel Gist Gee Papers - Accession 395
No full textThe Nathaniel Gist Gee Papers consist of various papers concerning Gee’s years in China including correspondence, reports, newspaper and magazine clippings, Chinese poetry, statistics, manifestos, statements, his professional papers concerned primarily with freshwater sponges, and professional papers and publications he collected that chronicle China’s growth. Many of the records are concerned with China’s political and social changes including China’s Nationalist and Student Movements during Gee’s stay in China.
Nathaniel Gist Gee (1876-1937), born in Union, SC, was a professor of Natural Science at Soochow University and Yenching University in China from 1901-1932.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1199/thumbnail.jp
[Letter from James G. Gee to Truett Latimer, September 15, 1958]
No full textLetter from James G. Gee to Truett Latimer; He encloses a season pass and asks that Mr. Latimer visit them
Gee Kwok oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Mr. Gee Kwok was born in Hong Kong in 1941 during the Sino-Japanese War. He was raised in Hong Kong by his grandparents, and did not get to know his father and mother until after the war had ended. He came to the United States in 1959 for college, where he went to Wake Forest University, where he also met his wife. After he graduated, Mr. Kwok found jobs doing programming before transitioning to teaching. He then began an education to get a PhD but stopped his schooling in favor of working full time for Lockleed. Mr. Kwok got very involved in the Chinese churches of Houston, and he went on several mission trips to different countries. He was eventually ordained an elder of the Clear Lake Chinese Church and remained heavily involved in expanding the Chinese church community in Houston.
In this interview, Mr. Kwok talks about his experiences growing up, his educational journey, his time in the workforce, and of his passion for church and Christianity. He details his efforts and stories in working with the Chinese church, and he shares his memories of his dedication to his religion
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