BYU Library - Special Collections

Interview by Alonzo J. Morley with Kathryn Pardoe concerning her childhood, education, life in Utah and Idaho, undergraduate education at Utah State and Henniger's Business College, dating and marriage, and years teaching speech at BYU. Includes transcript and sound recording.

Contains materials from the Department of Theatre and Film from 1938 to 1997. The materials focus on theatrical and film productions. It documents the day-to-day functioning of the department, the theatrical productions put on by the department, the student film festival Final Cut, and the activities of various faculty members.

Self-interview of Alonzo J. Morley concerning his childhood in Moroni, Utah, and family and genealogical information. Also talks about life in Provo, Utah; his work in the Brigham Young University Department of Public Speaking and Dramatic Arts, developing the Speech Pathology program; also his participation in dramatic productions, and descriptions of his world travels. Includes transcript and sound recording.

Interview by Thomas E. Cheney with Ralph A. Britsch concerning his experiences as a student at Brigham Young University, including comments about his teachers, and the development of BYU from 1931 to the present, particularily in the areas of music and drama. Includes transcript and sound recording.

Includes correspondence, memoranda, staff agendas and minutes, audiometric examinations and certification requirements for the department and its Speech and Hearing Clinic. Also includes financial information, reports, and correspondence to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Includes a scrapbook of programs and photographs for productions dated 1952-1964. The table of contents to the volume lists plays as late as 1966. Collection also contains a list of Hansen-directed productions, 1952-1956, which includes several names, presumably of cast members. A second list identifies productions dated 1969-1981, with specific performance dates; directors, including Hansen and others; and scene designers.