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Copy of letter from Paul Houston to Carey Croneis and attached memo, Rice University Charter Trial
No full textThis document contains a copy of a typewritten letter from Paul Houston to Carey Croneis and a typewritten memorandum from President Kenneth Pitzer
Kenneth Bell aka Little Joe Bell oral history and transcript
No full textKenneth Bell aka Little Joe Bell followed in his father's footsteps and played blues guitar in music venues in Houston
Interview with Kenneth Sprunt
No full textKenneth Sprunt was born in Wilmington in 1920, the third son of James Lawrence Sprunt. The Sprunts have a long history in and around Wilimington. His grandfather was a cotton merchant in the area and his great-great Uncle is the man for whom James Sprunt Community College is named for as well as the author of Chronicles of the Lower Cape Fear. Mr. Kenneth Sprunt relates his family history both before his birth and after. He spent three years in the Coast Guard during WWII primarily working on anti-submarine warfare in small boats
Kenneth Takehara Oral History
No full textAn oral history interview of military veteran Kenneth Takehara originally conducted under the auspices of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project
Memorandum from Kenneth Iyeko
No full textMemorandum from Kenneth Iyeko regarding establishment and support of the Japanese American Citizens' League at incarceration camps operated by War Relocation Authority.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Kenneth R. Joynt Oral History
No full textAn oral history interview of military veteran Kenneth R. Joynt--- originally conducted under the auspices of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project
Construction of Sam Houston Hall
No full textConstructing Sam Houston Hall, commonly known as National Democratic Convention Hall. Kenneth Franzeim was the primary architect with W. A. Dowdy City Architect. Sam Houston Hall, with a seating capacity of 16,000 and six acres of floor space, was built in sixty-four working days.In the winter of 1927 Jesse H. Jones traveled to Washington D.C. with a certified check for $200,000 to enter Houston's bid for the Democratic National Convention to be held the following summer. In what is generally recognized as a conciliatory move, the national committee accepted the city's offer. Even then the nomination of Al Smith-the Catholic, Tammany Hall-backed New York governor who aggressively opposed prohibition-seemed likely, and national party officials in the East felt the need to appease the Protestant, prohibitionist South, which had not hosted a national convention since the Civil War. The convention ran from June 26 through June 29. Al Smith received the nomination. Because of his anti-prohibition stance many anti-Smith Democrats eventually joined forces with Republicans and elected Herbert Hoover in November 1928. (From the Handbook of Texas Online.
W. Kenneth Horwitz and Annette Horwitz Sondock oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted as part of the Houston Jewish History Archive.Dr. W. Ken Horwitz and Annette Sondock are siblings and natives of Beaumont, Texas. Ken is a former basketball player for the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns where he played in the 1950’s a veteran of the United States Air Force, as well as a doctor in the field of Dentistry. Annette is a musician and performer, who spent much of her early life performing and touring with groups such as the Melody Maids, and studied voice at the University of Texas at Austin. Both Ken and Annette have long careers and histories of volunteering and serving in leadership positions in a myriad of Jewish institutions and organizations, as well as at the Conservative temple Beth Yeshurun in Houston, Texas.
In this Interview, Ken and Annette recount their life stories of growing up in Beaumont, Texas, and what Jewish life looked like in extreme Southeast Texas at the time, and how they were treated and seen in a city just a stone’s throw away from the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan in the state. As well as a look into what Jewish life was like on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin during the Civil Rights Movement, and what type of community was available to Jewish students at that time. Ken and Annette also give intricate insight as to what Jewish life looked like in the US Armed Forces during the 1960’s with Ken’s time in the US Air Force during the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as Annette being stationed with her husband in rural Germany, and her experience of living alongside former members of the NAZI Party. The interview concludes with both Ken and Annette painting a detailed picture of their experience in the Houston Jewish community once they both moved to the city, how involved they were, and how much the Houston Jewish community has changed and evolved over the course of more than a half century
A Review by Kenneth Atkinson of Alexandria and Qumran: Back to the Beginning, by Kenneth Silver
No full textKenneth Silver (a.k.a. Kenneth A. K. Lönnqvist), is a historian and professional archaeologist, who has lived and worked for decades in the Near East. With extensive publications on Hellenistic and Roman archaeology, history, and numismatics, Silver is the director of a survey and mapping project in Northern Mesopotamia studying the border zone between the late Roman/ Byzantine Empires and Persia. Author of numerous publications on Qumran and related topics, Silver’s lengthy monograph proposes that the documents and type of library found at Qumran were based on models derived from Egypt. The main thesis of the volume is that Pythagorean philosophy is the core and basis for the beliefs reflected in the non-Biblical texts found at Qumran
Kenneth Li oral history interview reflecting on Covid-19 pandemic
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.The special oral history collection is created in response to COVID-19 that started in February 2020. Kenneth Li was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1957. At the age of 14, he moved to Hong Kong with his uncle and later moved with his uncle to Houston in 1981. Mr. Li started his current real estate company, the Texas George Realty in 1988. He focused on Houston’s growing Asian community and the potential for development in the city’s Southwest; as such, he became instrumental in developing Houston’s New Chinatown. Mr. Li was appointed by the Houston Mayors to serve as the first Asian on the city of Houston’s Planning Commission and became a founding member of the Asian Real Estate Association in America. He also became involved with the Asian Chamber of Commerce and served as the Chairman of the Chinese Community Center in Houston
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