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Joint Oral History Project (Brigham Young University)

 Organization

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 87 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Odessa Allred Cullimore

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 116
Scope and Contents

Interview conducted by Virginia Poulson with Odessa Allred Cullimore concerning her childhood, marriage, and family. Cullimore speaks on her interest in politics, her election to the state legislature, her involvement with BYU, and service in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 1980 February 12

Oral history interview with Oliver R. Smith

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 160
Scope and Contents

Three unbound typescripts and one bound typescript of the included two cassette sound tapes. The interview was conducted by Marden J. Clark of the Joint Oral History Project of Brigham Young University. Smith talks about his educational background, his professional affiliation with Brigham Young University, and his religious experiences.

Dates: 1991-1995

Oral history interview with Paul B. Pixton

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS OH 892
Scope and Contents

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 7, 1988. Pixton describes why he chose to teach history at BYU. He gives an acount of his employment with the History Department and describes different aspects of his career including his involvement in the BYU Study Abroad Program.

Dates: 1988

Oral history interview with Philip M. Flammer

 Collection
Identifier: UA OH 149
Scope and Contents 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 13, 1989. Flammer 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 experiences as a pilot and historian for the United States Air Force. Includes an audio recording of the...
Dates: 1989 September 13

Oral history interview with Ray C. Hillam

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 181
Scope and Contents Briefly comments on China Teachers Program which sent couples to China to teach English beginning in 1989; International Relations Program, subsequently known as David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies; and Washington Seminar, which sent students to study in Washington D.C. Also mentions his experience as a Fulbright professor in Vietnam during Vietnam War, and on the "spy scandal" at BYU in the late 1960s. Interviewed by Carol Ottesen, historian of BYU Emeritus Alumnus...
Dates: 2000

Oral history interview with Richard Edmond Bennett

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 75
Scope and Contents

Interview by David Whittaker with Richard Bennett, historian, discussing his role and responsibilities relating to the research and writing of the Brigham Young University Centennial History, including opinions on co-workers on the project. Includes transcript and sound recording.

Dates: 1983

Oral history interview with Robert Edwon Riggs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 170
Scope and Contents

Oral history conducted by Arthur R. Watkins as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project of the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on September 8, 1992. Riggs talks about his education, his law career, his employment at Brigham Young University, and his disagreements with the president of Brigham Young University, Ernest L. Wilkinson. Includes transcript and sound recording.

Dates: 1992

Oral history interview with Rodney D. Bohac

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS OH 901
Scope and Contents

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 14, 1988. Bohac 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 such as his relationship with his students as a non-Mormon Professor.

Dates: 1988

Oral history interview with Ronald K. Esplin

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 153
Scope and Contents

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 March 20, 1989. Esplin describes his connection with the Historical Department at BYU, gives an account of his employment with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute, and discusses different aspects and projects of his career. Includes sound recordings and transcript.

Dates: 1989

Oral history interview with Russel B. Swensen

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 32
Scope and Contents

Interview by Mark K. Allen with Russel B. Swensen, Brigham Young University professor of Medieval history and comparative religion, concerning his family life, hobbies, education, early employment, Mormon mission to Germany, athletic participation, Seminary, and teaching at BYU. Swensen gives his impressions of several BYU presidents, and discusses his philosophy of teaching. Includes sound recording and transcript.

Dates: 1978

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