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Title: Interview with Alan Alford on Pearl City – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Alford, Alan (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer)
Abstract/Description: This interview is one in a series conducted from 1984-85 by sociologist Dr. Arthur Evans of Florida Atlantic University. The information gathered from these interviews was used for the compilation of “Pearl City, An Analysis of the Folk History,” by Sharon Wells, The Spanish River Papers, v. XV (1986-87) and the book Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, by Dr. Arthur S. Evans, Jr. and David Lee (1990). In 1958 white resident Alan Alford and his wife, Lenore, established their...
Show moreThis interview is one in a series conducted from 1984-85 by sociologist Dr. Arthur Evans of Florida Atlantic University. The information gathered from these interviews was used for the compilation of “Pearl City, An Analysis of the Folk History,” by Sharon Wells, The Spanish River Papers, v. XV (1986-87) and the book Pearl City, Florida: A Black Community Remembers, by Dr. Arthur S. Evans, Jr. and David Lee (1990). In 1958 white resident Alan Alford and his wife, Lenore, established their home in Boca Raton. From 1960 – 66 Al served as Assistant City Manager of Boca Raton; 1966 – 1972 as City Manager; and held office as Mayor from 1973 – 1975 as a member of the “Three A’s” in the city’s government: Al Alford, Bill Archer and Dave Ashe.
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Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU53702
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Alan Alford, 2013.
Creator: Alford, Alan (Interviewee), Belotto, Nick (Interviewer), Department of History
Abstract/Description: The interview recounts Mr. Alfords early life and his childhood memories. After joining the military he enrolled at the University of Miami to study Business Administration. At the age of twenty-eight, he became the first assistant city manager of Boca Raton and eventually moved up to the official city manager position in 1966 which he held for 6 years. Having gained respect and support from the community, Mr. Alford was elected mayor of Boca Raton in 1972.
Date Issued: 2013 - 02 - 06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007800p
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Pauline Raulerson Aylward – ca. 2001.
Creator: Aylward, Pauline Raulerson (Interviewee), Neile, Caren (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2001-02-17
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT76762
Subject Headings: Boca Raton, (Fla.), Boca Raton Hotel, Clearwater, (Fla.), Whitefield, (N.H.), Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Mary Lou Balog – ca. 2001.
Creator: Balog, Mary Lou (Interviewee), Newstreet, Carmen (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2001-03-04
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT76767
Subject Headings: War crime trials -- Nuremberg, 1946-1949, World War, 1939-1945, Broward County (Fla.), St. Andrew Catholic Church (Coral Springs, Fla.), Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Doris Barbato – ca. 2008.
Creator: Barbato, Doris (Interviewee), Shafer, Joseph (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2008-02-15
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT75650
Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945, Depressions --1929 --United States, Orphanages -- United States, Great Depression, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Dr. Leonard Berry – ca. 2002.
Creator: Berry, Leonard, Donnelly, Ginger
Date Issued: 2002-10-29
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78768
Subject Headings: Environmental sciences, Global environmental change, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: De-gnoming the garden: Harry Potter and the anthropocentric imagination.
Creator: Boundy, Kate
Date Issued: 2008-10-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165217p
Subject Headings: Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects, Potter, Harry (Fictitious character), Rowling, J. K. -- Characters -- Harry Potter
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Maureen Brennan, 2013.
Creator: Brennan, Maureen (Interviewee), Oliver, Cheyenne (Interviewer), Department of History
Abstract/Description: Mrs. Brennan speaks about her family background, growing up in New York in the 1930s, and gives a detailed account of her time as an airline stewardess.
Date Issued: 2013 - 02 - 16
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007801p
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with George Brewer – ca. 2006.
Creator: Brewer, George (Interviewee), Embick, Kevin (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2006-02-11
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT72453
Subject Headings: Depressions --1929 --United States, Korean War, 1950-1953, World War, 1939-1945, United States Navy, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: God, man, nature and Michel de Montaigne's rhetoric of human fallibility.
Creator: Brooten, Gary, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2008-10-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165264p
Subject Headings: Montaigne, Michel de 1533-1592 Essais, Environmentalism, Rhetoric
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Bobby Wayne Brown Sr.
Creator: Brown, Bobby Wayne Sr., Rea, Adam
Abstract/Description: Bobby Wayne Brown Sr. is a retired Navy sailor from Greenville, Mississippi. He began his service following a poor, rural upbringing in 1970, retiring for medical reasons in 1993. He served in the Vietnam War, and took the time to be interviewed by Adam Rea on February 10' 2013, during a vacation to visit his son's family in Hollywood, FL. Several topics were covered, including his personal life, military career and political views.
Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007870_p
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Marion K. Brozon – ca. 2001.
Creator: Brozon, Marion K. (Interviewee), Underwood, Perla (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2001-02-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT76771
Subject Headings: United States Army Nurse Corps, Palm Beach County, (Fla.), Visiting Nurses Association of Palm Beach County, St. Mary's Hospital, Literacy Project of Palm Beach, Hospitals -- Florida -- Palm Beach County, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Simulation, creation and reproduction in Dystopian science fiction.
Creator: Burns-Davies, Erin, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2008-10-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165363p
Subject Headings: Utopias in literature, Science fiction, American, Place (Philosophy) in literature
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Ann Blumberg Capone.
Creator: Capone, Ann Blumberg, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
Date Issued: 2017-03-24
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003476p
Subject Headings: Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Irene Demery Carswell and Archie L. Carswell – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Carswell, Irene Demery (Interviewee), Carswell, Archie L. (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU165281
Subject Headings: Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Anthony J. Catanese, 2013.
Creator: Catanese, Anthony J. (Interviewee), Shibley, Gregory J. (Interviewer), Department of History
Abstract/Description: Anthony J. Catanese gives an account of his tenure as the president of Florida Atlantic University between 1990 and 2002.
Date Issued: 2013 - 01 - 30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007802p
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with John Charlton, 2010.
Creator: Charlton, John (Interviewer), Wilkie, Carson Aden (Interviewer), Department of History
Abstract/Description: Mr. Calton, a B-24 pilot in the Second World War, is discussing his family history, childhood memories, adult life and involvement in the war.
Date Issued: 2010 - 10 - 07
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007803p
Subject Headings: Florida Atlantic University -- History, Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Bernice Butler Chavez and Manuel J. Chavez Jr.
Creator: Chavez, Bernice Butler (Interviewee), Chavez, Manuel J. Jr. (Interviewee), Kintop, Aubrey (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2010-09-28
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3358431
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida, World War II, Rationing, Boca Raton Army Air Field (Fla.), Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Barbara Cheslick – ca. 2004.
Creator: Cheslick, Barbara (Interviewee), Wilcox, Gina (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2004-02-22
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT76774
Subject Headings: Depressions --1929 --United States, World War, 1939-1945, Kentucky, Depressions --1929 --Kentucky, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Great Depression, 1929-1939
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Patricia Mailloux Clempson – ca. 2006.
Creator: Clempson, Patricia Mailloux (Interviewee), Rodriguez, Tara Christina (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2006-02-20
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT72457
Subject Headings: The City of Hollywood, Florida 1937-present, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

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