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 94 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Ted J. Warner
Oral history interview with Thomas E. Cheney
Interview by J. Roman Andrus with Tom Cheney, Brigham Young University English professor, concerning his teaching experience, his relationship with the faculty and administration, and his paper concerning African Americans and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and subsequent controversy. Includes sound recording and transcript.
Oral history interview with V. Robert Westover
Transcripts of 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 October 19, 1988. Westover 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 especially teaching and counselling in the high schools on the Navajo reservation.
Oral history interview with Vasco M. Tanner
Interview by Mark K. Allen with Vasco M. Tanner, who recounts his childhood in Idaho, his interest in Zoology, his education at Stanford, and teaching experiences while at Brigham Young University. Also speaks about several BYU presidents, academic freedom issues, and family accomplishments.
Oral history interview with Vasco M. Tanner
Oral history interview with Vasco M. Tanner, conducted by Millard L. Meanea on August 12, 1975 for the Joint Oral History Program of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club. Tanner discusses his education, research, and career as a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University.
Oral history interview with Violet J. Brown
Interview by Helen Stark with Violet Brown, educator, discussing her early life in Alpine, Santaquin, and Provo, Utah. Also discusses her education, travels, and marriage.
Oral history interview with W. Derby Laws
Typescript taken from the included sound tape on an interview of Laws taken by Alonzo J. Morley on July 14, 1985. The interview was conducted for the Joint Oral History Program of the Brigham Young University Archives and the BYU Alumni Association Emeritus Club. Laws talks about his teaching career at Brigham Young University.
Oral history interview with W. Floyd Millet
Interview by Edwin R. Kimball with Floyd W. Millet concerning his experiences playing basketball at Gila Junior College and Brigham Young University, and his later experiences as a coach at Davis High School and at BYU. Includes transcript and sound recording.
Oral history interview with W. Floyd Millet
Typescripts of oral history conducted as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club. Millet tells about attending Brigham Young University and about his career teaching there.
Oral history interview with Wayne B. Hales
Interview by Edwin R. Kimball with Wayne B. Hales, concerning his experiences as a Brigham Young University student, and as a member of the BYU Athletic Council, his family and his experiences with other faculty and administrators at BYU. Includes transcript and sound recording.
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- Historians -- Utah -- Provo -- Interviews 10
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- Audiotapes 3
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- Letters 2
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- Provo (Utah) -- History 2
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- Zoologists -- Biography 2
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- Artists -- United States -- History 1
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- Book of Mormon -- Antiquities 1
- Broadcasting -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Broadcasting -- Utah -- Salt Lake City 1
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- Civic improvement -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Danish Americans -- Utah -- History 1
- Deer Creek Reservoir (Utah) 1
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- Education, Higher -- Utah -- Provo 1
- English teachers 1
- Fairview (Utah) 1
- Geology -- Study and teaching -- Utah -- Provo 1
- Historians -- Utah -- Interviews 1
- Journalism, School 1
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