Scope and Contents note Brunson collects stories from the Brigham Young University police department dispatch center. She divides these stories into three categories-real emergencies, job security, and dumb people calls-and finds a high concentration of dumb people stories. She suggests that sharing stories about dumb callers establishes camaraderie between dispatchers and blurs the hierarchy between actual dispatchers and subordinate alarm monitors by finding a common joke. Telling stories about dumb callers also...

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This project contains personal narratives about high school dramatic performance experiences as told by performers. This 12 item collection includes the following experiences: hiding behind the stage curtains, rubber chicken in every production, dancing mishaps, sound effect mistakes, pranks, painted armpits, Vaseline on props, unitards, backstage relationships, malfunctioning microphone, and co-ed dressing rooms. Collected by Erin Valle, Eric Eliason's ENGL 391 class, Winter 2008.

Scope and Contents note Bush collects "unsuccessful" stories from people who served proselytizing missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He believes that unsuccessful stories-stories in which a person refused baptism or the message of Christ-are unpopular in Latter-day Saint culture because the people of that culture are attached to formulaic approaches to righteousness, in which a good action must necessarily be rewarded. He finds that certain geographies are less conducive to baptisms, and...

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Submitted by BYU student Sariah Pullan for her English 319 fall course for Dr. Eric Eliason. A series of interviews on scuba diving in Hawaii. Includes stories about scuba diving customs and personal experience narratives.

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Submitted by BYU student Kathryn Madsen for her English 391 course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, photographs and informant interviews. About handmade dolls. Includes s collection of wedding dolls.

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Namahoe collected bizarre and embarrassing stories that have occurred to people in the workplace. Included are stories of a pizza delivery boy rear-ending a car while delivering a pizza, a boy having to give a urine sample for a drug test and being unable to urinate, and a man mimicking an Indian accent with a co-worker only to find an Indian man waiting at the reception desk outside. The project was collected for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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Submitted by BYU student Gregory A. Stevens for his Spring 1979 English 392 class. About the way that LDS missionaries preach, and how it is different from other faiths. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include missionary techniques for the amusement of Elders, missionary techniques to increase effectiveness of work, and more.

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Daniel C. Hope collected unusual stories from his father-in-law Ferron W. Sonderegger of a neighborhood in Midway, Utah. Included are stories about a strange local woman named Maryanne Schildt, and stories about three neighbors who committed suicide. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in the Fall semester in 1988.

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Olsen collected stories from missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are stories that have encounters evil spirits, scary situations, and crazy neighbors. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 368 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Chatham collected obituaries from before 1930 (with the bulk being before 1910). Included are obituaries of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speculations of murder, explanations of circumstances surrounding mysterious deaths, and an obituary explaining the story of Henry Neuebaumer who shot his unfaithful sweetheart Miss Ollie Powell and then killed himself. The project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1997.