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Title: Generations Interview with Atticus Ranck.
Creator: Fejes, Fred A., Ranck, Atticus, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Atticus Ranck, at the time of this interview, is the Director of Transgender Services at SunServe. He was born on February 13 1989 and raised in Lancaster, PA and graduated from Slippery Rock University in May 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He graduated with his Masters in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Florida Atlantic University in May 2015. In his current position (March 2016), he is an educator, advocate, and case manager helping transgender adults as they navigate a world...
Show moreAtticus Ranck, at the time of this interview, is the Director of Transgender Services at SunServe. He was born on February 13 1989 and raised in Lancaster, PA and graduated from Slippery Rock University in May 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He graduated with his Masters in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Florida Atlantic University in May 2015. In his current position (March 2016), he is an educator, advocate, and case manager helping transgender adults as they navigate a world that has no place for them. For his work, SunServe has been awarded “Best Place for Trans Folks” by South Florida Gay News (SFGN) magazine. In addition, Atticus is proud to be included in SFGN South Florida 2016 OUT50 as a prominent leader in the local LGBT community. In his free time, he enjoys restoring furniture.
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Date Issued: 2015-01-26
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAranckset
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Generations Interview with F. Jouseph Sliba.
Creator: Fejes, Fred A., Sliba, F. Jouseph, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: F. Jouseph Sliba was born in Colombia on July 9, 1979. He grew up in Long Island and New York City, NY and moved to several cities around the country before settling down in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 2009. Mr. Sliba graduated with a BA in Fashion Merchandising in May 2005 and worked for 10 years in the fashion retail industry. Now he is perusing a Masters in College Student Affairs and works in higher education helping college students with financial aid and administrative issues. Mr. Sliba also...
Show moreF. Jouseph Sliba was born in Colombia on July 9, 1979. He grew up in Long Island and New York City, NY and moved to several cities around the country before settling down in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 2009. Mr. Sliba graduated with a BA in Fashion Merchandising in May 2005 and worked for 10 years in the fashion retail industry. Now he is perusing a Masters in College Student Affairs and works in higher education helping college students with financial aid and administrative issues. Mr. Sliba also volunteers at a few LGBTQ non-profit organizations that enrich the lives and culture of the LGBTQ youth in South Florida. Mr. Sliba is passionate about working out at Crossfit, eating healthy and creating a balanced lifestyle.
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Date Issued: 2016-02-26
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAslibaset
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Generations Interview with Jason Parsley.
Creator: Fejes, Fred A., Parsley, Jason, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: Jason Parsley is the executive editor of the South Florida Gay News. He was born in Louisville Kentucky and currently lives Boynton Beach with his partner Aydin Koymen.
Date Issued: 2015-03-20
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAparsleyset
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Generations Interview with Robert W. Lee.
Creator: Fejes, Fred A., Lee, Robert W., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Judge Lee currently serves as an Acting Circuit Judge and the Chair of the Civil Division of the Broward County Court. He continues to speak about the court system to numerous organizations and schools throughout the country.
Date Issued: 2016-02-03
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAleeset
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Adelheid Rupp – ca. 2004.
Creator: Rupp, Adelheid (Interviewee), Moore, Charles (Interviewer)
Abstract/Description: Adelheid Rupp, born on the eve of WWII in Ledwigshafen, Germany, was only ten months old when the German Army drafted her father. She would be over ten years old when he returned. During the interim, Mrs. Rupp spent her childhood struggling with her mother to survive Nazi Germany. Enduring the conflict and the hardship, Mrs. Rupp formed an exceptionally strong bond with her mother. Upon her father’s return, Mrs. Rupp had to adjust to two new additions to the family: her father Ernst and her...
Show moreAdelheid Rupp, born on the eve of WWII in Ledwigshafen, Germany, was only ten months old when the German Army drafted her father. She would be over ten years old when he returned. During the interim, Mrs. Rupp spent her childhood struggling with her mother to survive Nazi Germany. Enduring the conflict and the hardship, Mrs. Rupp formed an exceptionally strong bond with her mother. Upon her father’s return, Mrs. Rupp had to adjust to two new additions to the family: her father Ernst and her new baby sister Karoline. In 1953, the Rupp family moved to the United States and Mrs. Rupp found a new set of challenges. Through it all, Mrs. Rupp has proved that she is a survivor. Presently, Mrs. Rupp resides in Pompano Beach, Florida with her husband Henry and her daughter Monica.
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Date Issued: 2004-02-19
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT72819
Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Nazi Germany
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Adrienne Martin.
Creator: Martin, Adrienne, Iadevaia, Vincenza, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00002999p
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 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 Amie Kay Tanner.
Creator: Tanner, Amie Kay, Fiorillo, Patricia
Abstract/Description: The following is a look into the history of Deerfield Beach as told through the eyes of Arnie Kay Tanner. Ms. Tanner was born November 4, 1947, she has lived within the city her entire life. Ms. Tanner and her family have been active members within the community since settling there in the 1920s, offering a unique and extensive point of view on Deerfield Beach's history. Through her story readers/researchers will be able to see the social, economic, and political changes that have occurred as...
Show moreThe following is a look into the history of Deerfield Beach as told through the eyes of Arnie Kay Tanner. Ms. Tanner was born November 4, 1947, she has lived within the city her entire life. Ms. Tanner and her family have been active members within the community since settling there in the 1920s, offering a unique and extensive point of view on Deerfield Beach's history. Through her story readers/researchers will be able to see the social, economic, and political changes that have occurred as the city grew. Major topics of discussion in this oral history include: the contributions her father (Odas Tanner) has made to Deerfield Beach, Ms. Tanner's early life, Cracker Day, population growth, the impacts hurricanes have had on the city's grow;th and development, and President Gerald Ford's visit to the city's pier.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007889_p
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Amos Jackson – ca. 1984 - 1985.
Creator: Jackson, Amos (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur S. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
Date Issued: 1984-1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAjacksonaset
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 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 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 Antonio Leon.
Creator: Leon, Antonio, Garreaud, Michael
Abstract/Description: Antonio Leon was one of 14,008 Cuban children who were part of ( Operation Pedro Pan (1961-1965). These children immigrated to the United States unaccompanied by their parents under the sponsorship of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in conjunction with the United States government. Antonio immigrated to the United States age fourteen in October of 1961. Antonio's experiences within the Pedro Pan program where unique, in that after arriving and temporarily settling in Miami, Florida, he was...
Show moreAntonio Leon was one of 14,008 Cuban children who were part of ( Operation Pedro Pan (1961-1965). These children immigrated to the United States unaccompanied by their parents under the sponsorship of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in conjunction with the United States government. Antonio immigrated to the United States age fourteen in October of 1961. Antonio's experiences within the Pedro Pan program where unique, in that after arriving and temporarily settling in Miami, Florida, he was relocated on three occasions to different regions within the United States- in the West in Reno, Nevada, the Southwest in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in the Mid-West in Superior, Wisconsin.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007882_p
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Assunta Russo.
Creator: Russo, Assunta (Interviewee), Harmer, Alecia (Interviewer), Aletto, Gina (Translator)
Date Issued: 2010-10-02
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3358434
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with B.D. and R. E. Thomas.
Creator: Thomas, B. D., Thomas, R. E.
Abstract/Description: B.D. Thomas was born in 1919 at Prayer Ridge in the Basinger, Florida area to a cattle family. She became an orphan at the age of thirteen and was married at the age of sixteen. After she married, she used inherited cattle to buy eighty acres at a tax sale in order to begin ranching with her husband. The interviews were conducted on that same ranch where her son, R.E. Thomas, herds approximately two hundred head of cattle today.
Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007890
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida
Format: Document (PDF)

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 Barbara McLellan – ca. 2006.
Creator: McLellan, Barbara (Interviewee), Martin, Anne (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2006-10-26
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT76791
Subject Headings: Policewomen --United States, Policewomen --United States --Interviews, Law enforcement, Fort Lauderdale (Fla.), Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Law enforcement --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 Bill Zern – ca. 2002.
Creator: Zern, Bill (Interviewee), Wiseman, Maury (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2002-10-19
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78806
Subject Headings: Altoona (Pa.), United States Army, Great Depression, 1929-1939, World War, 1939-1945, West Palm Beach (Fla.), Lake Worth (Fla.), Segregation, Intergration, Racism --Florida --History, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Segregation --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Interview with Bob Roth.
Creator: Roth, Bob, Altschul, Hunter
Abstract/Description: The primary topic of this interview was Bob Roth's lifestyle, his family, and the values important to him. Bob has been a farmer at New River Groves in Davie for over 50 years. He was able to provide insight into the experiences of the fruit business, which have interested him since his time as a student at North Miami High School in the 1960s. The discussions in this interview will cover topics such as early Davie history, Bob's family history, the fruit business, and changes in South...
Show moreThe primary topic of this interview was Bob Roth's lifestyle, his family, and the values important to him. Bob has been a farmer at New River Groves in Davie for over 50 years. He was able to provide insight into the experiences of the fruit business, which have interested him since his time as a student at North Miami High School in the 1960s. The discussions in this interview will cover topics such as early Davie history, Bob's family history, the fruit business, and changes in South Florida. The interview, which began just before the tape begins, was not interrupted to begin again. This was done as a means to keep a natural pace and flow to the discussion.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007887_p
Subject Headings: Oral histories --Florida
Format: Set of related objects

FAU Department of History Oral Histories (78)	+ -
Italian-American Oral History Collection (7)	+ -
Pearl City Oral Histories (7)	+ -
FAU College Collections (4)	+ -
Generations (4)	+ -

Oral histories --Florida (75)	+ -
Oral history (56)	+ -
World War, 1939-1945 (17)	+ -
Florida Atlantic University -- History (12)	+ -
African Americans -- Florida -- History (7)	+ -

Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews (7)	+ -
Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century (7)	+ -
Italian American families (7)	+ -
Italian Americans (7)	+ -
Italian Americans--Florida--History (7)	+ -
Italian Americans--History--20th century. (7)	+ -
Oral histories -- Florida (7)	+ -
Oral history--Italy (7)	+ -
Oral history--United States. (7)	+ -
Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History (7)	+ -
Depressions --1929 --United States (4)	+ -
United States Army (4)	+ -
Delray Beach (Fla.) (3)	+ -
Great Depression (3)	+ -
Oral histories --Florida. (3)	+ -
World War II (3)	+ -
B 17 bomber (2)	+ -
Boca Raton (Fla.) (2)	+ -
Broward County (Fla.) (2)	+ -
Everglades (Fla.) (2)	+ -
Families (2)	+ -
Florida --Race relations (2)	+ -
Great Depression, 1929-1939 (2)	+ -
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (2)	+ -
Pilot (2)	+ -

Boca Raton (Fla.) (5)	+ -
Campania (Italy) (2)	+ -
Afragola, Naples (Italy) (1)	+ -
Bari, Puglia (Italy) (1)	+ -
Calitri, Avellino (Italy) (1)	+ -

Castellana Grotte (Italy) (1)	+ -
Italians--Rhode Island--Providence. (1)	+ -
Lazio (Italy) (1)	+ -
Mount Vernon, New York (1)	+ -
Naples(Italy) (1)	+ -
New York, New York (1)	+ -
Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) (1)	+ -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1)	+ -
Putignano, Puglia (Italy) (1)	+ -
Roccarainola, Naples(Italy) (1)	+ -
Shreveport, Louisianna (1)	+ -
Sicily (Italy) (1)	+ -
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