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Fay Lawson Oral History
Full text linkFay Lawson has seen the Lab from several perspectives: as a research assistant to Tibby Russell, a graduate student and later college professor viewing Jax from the outside, and now, as a part-time Lab administrator. This interview, in its two quite different halves, reflects these different phases in Lawson\u27s interaction with the Lab. When she is drawing on her early years of working at the Lab in the mid-50\u27s, Lawson provides some of the most vivid and funny anecdotes in this collection, especially vignettes of Tibby Russell (e.g. Tibby having fallen in the snow with mice allover her, wearing her tattered lab coat, looking like a cleaning lady) and recollections of Lab social events (e.g. mouse races and the Lab Lovelies softball team). Lawson clearly here has an eye for the vivid scene that recaptures the essence of Lab esprit. After Lawson left Jax to go on to graduate school, and then to a twenty-year career in college teaching and administration, the anecdotes are fewer. We are provided with memorable material on Barbara Sanford\u27s entry into science, as Lawson\u27s classmate at Brown under Herman Chase. When I began to ask some of the more penetrating questions about Jackson Lab\u27s identity, mission etc., Lawson switched over to her Lab administrator mode, and produced a PR piece. The last c. 30 minutes of this tape would bear out David Harrison\u27s observation that the Lab mentality does not handle intellectual aggression very comfortably. Value this tape for its wonderful anecdotes, which go far toward providing a sense of the Lab\u27s earlier years, but do not look here for much objective analysis
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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
Rev. James Lawson, SCLC and COME, 1968
No full textThis is an interview with Reverend James Lawson. Lawson was the pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church and chairman of the strategy committee of C.O.M.E (Community on the Move for Equality), the community organization supporting the strikers. He was also S.C.L.C director of nonviolent education
Rev. James Lawson, SCLC and COME, July 29th 1969
No full textThis is an interview with Reverend James Lawson, Jr. Lawson was the pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church and chairman of the strategy committee of C.O.M.E (Community on the Move for Equality), the community organization supporting the strikers. He was also the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) director of nonviolent education
Rev. James Lawson, SCLC and COME, September 23rd 1969
No full textThis is an interview with Reverend James Lawson, Jr. Lawson was the pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church and chairman of the strategy committee of Community on the Move for Equality (C.O.M.E.) the community organization supporting the strikers. He was also Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) director of nonviolent education
Rev. James Lawson, SCLC and COME, August 21st 1969
No full textThis is an interview with Reverend James Lawson, Jr. Lawson was the pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church and chairman of the strategy committee of Community on the Move for Equality (C.O.M.E.), the community organization supporting the strikers. He was also Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) director of nonviolent education
Rev. James Lawson, SCLC and COME, July 8th 1970
No full textThis is an interview with Reverend James Lawson, Jr. Lawson was the pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church and chairman of the strategy committee of C.O.M.E., the community organization supporting the strikers. He was also Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) director of nonviolent education
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