Joint Oral History Project (Brigham Young University)
Dates
- Existence: active 1958 - 1986
Biography
The Joint Oral History Project was established to conduct oral history interviews about Brigham Young University.
The Joint Oral History Project conducted interviews with selected, retired Brigham Young University faculty, alumni, and other individuals who had extensive contact with the University. The interviews focused on the Brigham Young University community at the time of the interviewee's association with the University, but also covering the interviewee's life before coming and after leaving the university. The Joint Oral History Project was established to conduct oral history interviews about Brigham Young University.
Citation:
UPB files, December 19, 2014 (Joint Oral History Project; interviews retired Brigham Young University faculty, alumi, and other individuals with contact with the University; topics of interviews)Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Morris M. Clinger interview with J. J. Keeler
Joint Oral History Project records
Contains correspondence, minutes, and other materials relating to the Joint Oral History Project. Dated 1958-1986.
Oral history interview with Anna Elizabeth Stark
Oral history interview with Anna Elizabeth Stark, conducted by Helen Candland Stark on January 11, 1982. Anna discusses her early childhood in Leland, Utah and parents, her Danish ancestry, her teaching career at Weber State, Duchesne, Beaver and her retirement. The collection includes a rough draft, original transcript, a newspaper clipping about Anna and a bound copy of the interview.
Oral history interview with Arthur Rich Watkins
Transcript of interview conducted as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club in 1991. Watkins talks about his first years at Brigham Young University, U.S. Army Service, getting a Ph.D. at Stanford, teaching at Brigham Young University, and coping with a growing family.
Oral history interview with Blair Holmes
Interview conducted by Richard Poll as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project by the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on September 15, 1988. Holmes describes why he chose to teach history at BYU. He gives an account of his employment with the History Department and describes different aspects of his career including his involvement in the Center for Family and Community History and the Semester Abroad Program.
Oral history interview with Dale H. West
Interview conducted by Richard Poll as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on April 29, 1988. West describes why he chose to teach English at BYU. He gives an account of his employment with the BYU English Department and describes different aspects of his career including the people who were influential in his professional life. Includes transcript and sound recording.
Oral history interview with David C. Montgomery
Interview conducted by Richard Poll as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project by the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on September 20 and October 20, 1988. Montgomery describes why he chose to teach at BYU. He gives an account of his employment with the History Department and talks about different aspects of his career including his love affair with Near Eastern Studies. Includes transcript and sound recording.
Oral history interview with David H. Pratt
Bound interview, two typescripts, and a cassette tape of an interview conducted by Richard Poll as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on September 20, 1988.
Oral history interview with Douglas F. Tobler
Interview conducted by Richard Poll as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on August 11, 1988. Tobler describes why he chose to teach history at BYU. He gives an account of his employment with the BYU History Department and discusses different aspects of his career including his love affair with European History.
Oral history interview with Edith Johnson
Oral interview conducted by Hollis Scott as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club at Provo, Utah on April 24, 1984.Johnson discusses her career at Brigham Young University and her experiences as secretary to Ernest L. Wilkinson. She also comments on Mrs. Wilkinson's involvement in University affairs. Includes transcript and sound recordings.
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- Transcripts 9
- Audiocassettes 7
- Audiotapes 2
- Agronomy -- Study and teaching -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Beaver (Utah) 1
- Book of Mormon -- Antiquities 1
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1
- Danish Americans -- Utah -- History 1
- Duchesne County (Utah) 1
- Fairview (Utah) 1
- Historians -- Utah -- Interviews 1
- Journalism, School 1
- Journalists -- Interviews 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- California -- History 1
- Latter Day Saint missionaries -- California 1
- Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- History 1
- Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Leland -- Interviews 1
- Latter Day Saints -- Arizona -- Interviews 1
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- Letters 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Missions and Missionaries 1
- Secretaries -- Utah -- Provo -- Interviews 1
- Seventh East Press 1
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- Transcriptions (Documents) 1
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