Our
archives includes a number of collections on particular
topics. The interviews in each collection were conducted
as a part of a research project, then compiled and entrusted
to our program for easy accessibility by researchers.
Milton
W. and Julia Carothers
This
collection contains twenty-one interviews collected since
1984 by the Reverend Milton Stover Carothers, Director
of the Presyberterian University Center, with and about
his parents. Milton W. Carothers served Florida State College
for Women and Florida State University as Registrar, Director
of the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida,
FSU vice president, acting president when Robert Strozier
died unexpectedly, and Dean of Graduate Studies. Among
those interviewed were Dr. and Julia Carothers, J. Broward
and Betty Culpepper, Daisy and Claude Flory, LeRoy Collins,
Angus Laird, Miriam Wilson, Katherine [Kitty] Hoffman,
Mary Williams, Joe Hiett, Davis and Virginia Thomas, Alice
Chambers, Annie and Claude Andrews, John and Mary Champion,
Stanley Marshall, Clifford Madsden, Michael Kasha (brief
reflections), and Bernie Sliger.
Doak
Sheridan Campbell
The
eleven interviews in this group were collected by William
Oliver, Jr. in 1975 for his dissertation on Doak Campbell.
Oliver's choice of interviewees and questions reflects
an obvious slant in Campbell's favor, but there is some
useful information. The collection includes interviews
with Campbell's widow, Edna, his son, Doak S., Jr., and
grandson, Doak S., III. Outside of the family, those
interviewed include Mode Stone, Dorothy Hoffman, LeRoy
Collins, Millard Caldwell, Malcolm Johnson, Alice Chambers,
Milton W. Carothers and Myron Blee.
Wainwright
Shipyard
These
interviews were conducted in 1992 as research for Peggy
D. Pelt's doctoral dissertation, "Wainwright Shipyard:
The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City,
Florida." The eleven interviews in this collection are
with civilian employees of the shipyard: Zema Cowan, Opal
Reaver, Ruth Smeby, Mary Darr, Earle Boone, Millie Nauman,
H. Mack Lewis, Mozelle Kasiah, Fannie Hutchinson, Runnell
Poston, and "Bubber" Nelson.
Florida
Teachers' Strike*
These
interviews were conducted between 1995 and 1997 as research
for Michael Makowsky's doctoral dissertation. Makowsky
interviewed labor leaders and members of the Florida Education
Association, the National Education Association, and the
American Federation of Teachers regarding the threatened
and actual teachers' strike that occured in Florida in
the late 1960's. These twelve interviews are with George
Auzanne, Larry Sorenson, Rodney Davis, Roger Stephon, John
Ryor, Wade Hopping, Carl Harner, Don Cameron, Jim Gieger,
Claudia Edwards, Ray Edwards, and Rick Willis.
Miller
Enterprises
These
seven interviews were conducted with members of the George
Miller, Jr. family of Crescent City, Florida. Miller, his
mother and father, his brothers and sisters, and his six
children were all involved in the development of Miller
Enterprises, Inc., a conglomerate of supermarkets and convenience
stores in the Florida counties of Putnam, Seminole, Orange,
Marion, Lake, Bradford, Clay and Volusia. The family history
is closely connected with the history of Crescent City
and Putnam County, Florida. The interviews were used as
source material for Family, Community, Business Enterprise:
The Millers of Crescent City, Florida by Edward F.
Keuchel and Robin J. Sellers.
Macon
Community
These
interviews outline life in a North Florida black community,
pre-1950. Interviews by Jennifer Opager with residents
of Macon Community, an old-time Tallahassee neighborhood
bounded by Meginnis Arm on the west and Meridian Road on
the east. To the north and south it went beyond Lakeshore
Drive and Henderson Road, respectively. Annie Mae Macon,
Annie V. Brown, James R. Ford, Fred Hunter, Sr., Ruby Davis,
and Naomi Randolph contributed to the interviews.
Florida
Retirement Communities**
These
interviews were conducted by Christopher Linsen during
research for his doctoral dissertation on the social aspects
of particular retirement centers in Florida.
Florida
Park Service
* Open
only by special permission
**
Pending accession
