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Kay Shumway Oral History Interview
No full textIn this interview, Kay Shumway discusses his experiences growing up in Blanding, Utah, in the 1930s and 40s, highlighting the sense of freedom and community spirit of the era, contrasted with the isolation he perceives in modern society. He recounts his academic journey, earning multiple degrees and becoming a professor before returning to Blanding to help establish a post-high school education program, which eventually became Utah State University, Blanding. Shumway emphasizes the transformative impact of this educational opportunity and improved healthcare on the community, particularly for the indigenous population. He expresses concerns about the future changes to Blanding due to increased tourism and population influx, fearing a loss of the town\u27s quiet nature and community feel, and criticizes federal government overreach. Throughout the interview, he celebrates the resilience and community-mindedness of the people of Blanding and the positive changes he has witnessed, despite some personal reservations about the area\u27s increasing development
Kay Hunt, Utah Uranium Oral History Project
No full textTranscript (46 pages) of an interview by Gary Shumway with Kay Hunt, on August 14, 1970. From tape number 70 in the Uranium History SeriesHunt talked with Gary Shumway. Subjects: Vernon Pick, experience with the AEC, Union Carbide, vanadium mining, family involvements, prospecting during the boom, Circle Cliffs area (46 pages)
Kay P. Johnson, Utah Uranium Oral History Project
No full textTranscript (20 pages) of an interview by Suzanne Simon with Kay Johnson, on July 22, 1970. From tape number 123 in the Uranium History ProjectJohnson was interviewed by Suzanne Simon at his home in Blanding, Utah. Subjects: Bridge One mine, service in World War II, trucking business, college, trading post, health hazards, helping stake claims, Gilbert Shumway\u27s involvement with the Happy Jack, VCA pilot plant (20 pages)
Tribute to Kay Boyle
No full text for Ian Under a bright San Francisco starI earned my MA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State in 1968. I had the good fortune to have Kay Boyle standing in my proverbial corner. Kay is (I use the present tense because, once set down, literature is here to stay) an amazingly accomplished and well-versed author with some 40 published books to round out her long lifetime (1902-1992). Kay Boyle in Crowd, San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-1969 by Gerald Grow Throughout her writin..
Author Kay Kermode with Plant
No full textKathryn "Kay" Vassel Kermode with one of her plants. A long time agriculturalist in Manatee County, she is author of the 1995 book: Tomato Ties n Growers: a history of the tomato industry in West Florida
Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle
No full textIn this wonderfully vivid piece, originally published in 2013 and now posted on LitHub, Marianne Goldsmith tells about marching the streets of San Francisco with Kay Boyle in the early 1970s. The author says she was inspired to revive it after the Jan 6th riot in Washington, D.C. "Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle," http://disq.us/t/3wqn7rz Marianne Goldsmith is the pen-name of Marianne Smith. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds ..
Khoo Kay Kim, professor of Malaysian history : a biobibliometric study
Get PDFPresents an analysis of the publication productivity, authorship pattern, channels of communication, journal preference and language preference of Professor Dato' Khoo Kay Kim, Professor of Malaysian History in the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. The results of this biobibliometric study indicate that he can be a role model for future Malaysian historians to emulate his various achievements especially in the field of history education
Letter from Kay Yamashita to Pooh, November 1, 1942
No full textLetter from Kay Yamashita to Pooh at the Sakai house, written from Topaz incarceration camp. Yamashita mentions the Student Relocation Council and activities of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a scheduled visit from Caleb Foote, and the arrival of a new teacher at the camp high school, F.O.R. member Mary McMillan. Yamashita asks if Joe [Joseph R. Goodman] would be willing to come teach at the high school. Kay also writes of lack of adequate heating in the cold weather, and of censorship of the camp newsletter: "If you get a hold of one of our Topaz Times, now a daily news sheet, don't believe all - it's highly censored - about as much as our Tanforan newspaper was - they're afraid to let anything unpleasant or detrimental to the administration out." Yamashita also mention lack of available or willing workers for farm labor in the camp.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
Thank you card from Kay Ochi to Hayao (Sam) Chuman
No full textA thank you card from Kay Ochi to Hayao (Sam) Chuman thanking him for his $1,000 donation to the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR).The Chuman (Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko) Papers documents the World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chuman's incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The digital collection consists of mostly textual material, including correspondence, affidavits, incarceration camp records, lease agreements, financial documents, receipts, pamphlets, and booklets
Kay Boyle author of herself
No full textIn her long, prolific, and tumultuous career, Kay Boyle (1902-92) published more than thirty volumes of fiction and poetry to awards and acclamations, always mining a rich vein of autobiography and innovation. Her reputation, however, has only recently begun to reemerge from the long shadow cast over it by her struggle against McCarthyism, returning to American letters some of the most vigorous writing of this centuryIn Joan Mellen's groundbreaking and provocative biography of Kay Boyle - the first ever - the full sweep of her remarkable life is revealed. As the golden girl of expatriate Paris, Kay Boyle included among her friends James Joyce, Hart Crane, Marcel Duchamp, Picabia, Brancusi, and Archibald MacLeishA literary figure in her own right, she became one of the most important contributors to the seminal magazine transition, virtually invented what came to be known as The New Yorker story, and was awarded two O. Henry Prizes for her short fiction. Kay Boyle took lovers, bore them children, and married three times. She struggled against fascism in Austria and on behalf of the Resistance in France, and in her seventh decade went to prison for her opposition to the Vietnam Wa
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