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1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, Georgia
30144-5591
Telephone 770-423-6294
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Oral History
Project
Director:
Thomas A. Scott, Professor of History
Phone:
770-423-6254
Facsimile: 770-423-6432
Email:
tscott@kennesaw.edu
A.
Kennesaw College Oral History Series
This series
was started in 1978 and has now been completed. The interviewees were
people of various backgrounds from Cobb, Cherokee, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon,
and Fulton counties. Most of the interviews were relatively brief class
projects by students taking Georgia or Social and Cultural history. An
index to Collected Interviews, Vol. I-X, was completed by Angela G. Riess.
All transcripts
in this series have been bound and placed in the Bentley Rare Book Room
of the Sturgis Library at Kennesaw State University and in the Georgia
Room of the main Cobb County Library.
Unless otherwise
indicated transcribed interviews are typed and single-spaced.
| 01 |
Herbert
C. McCollum [Cobb County Commissioner] by Thomas A. Scott (1978).
44 pages, photos, index.
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| 02 |
M.J.
Woods. [African-American educator; principal, Lemon Street High
School] by Thomas A.Scott (1978). 31 pages, (double-spaced),
no index.
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| 03 |
Shuler
Antley [Marietta Schools Superintendent] by Thomas A. Scott (1979).
28 pages, no index.
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| 04 |
Jennie
Tate Anderson [Marietta civic leader] by Susan Herman (1979).
35 pages, no index.
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| 05 |
Kermit
Carl Sanders [Cobb County Sheriff] by J.R. Ash (1979). 20
pages, index.
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| 06 |
Mary
Hall Swain [principal, Marietta High School; professor, Kennesaw
Junior College] (Collected Interviews, Vol. I) by H. Gwen Pennington
(1979). 12 pages, index.
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| 07 |
Joe
Mack Wilson [Cobb County legislator] (C.I., Vol. I) by Mary Eugenia
Hunter (1979). 7 pages, index.
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| 08 |
Ione W. Johnson [Paulding County educator] (C.I., Vol. I) by Carter
K. Hamilton (1980). 9 pages, index.
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| 09 |
Burton
M. Wamble [Former state legislator and chair, Ways and Means Committee,
from Grady;County; Director of Administration, State
Board of Workers' Compensation; Cobb County resident]by Thomas
A. Scott (1979). 52 pages, no index.
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| 10 |
Clinton
E. Crissey [Marietta mail carrier] by Thomas A. Scott (1979).
15 pages, no index.
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| 11 |
Judge
William A. Foster, Jr. [Paulding County judge] (C.I., Vol. II)
by Venetia Diane Rainwater (1979). 10 pages, index.
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| 12 |
Judge Fred W. McRee [Alpharetta municipal judge] (C.I., Vol. II)
by Loring C. Jackson (1980). 14 pages, index.
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| 13 |
Bernard
A. Pyle [Cobb County probation officer] (C.I., Vol. II) by Stephen
R. Wolfe (1979). 8 pages, index.
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| 14 |
Alice
B. Howard [Bartow County resident] (C.I., Vol. III) by Retha G.
Stephens (1981). 14 pages, photo, index.
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| 15 |
H. Clifford Goss [mayor of Nelson, Georgia] (C.I., Vol. III) by
Jeffrey G. Stancil (1980). 20 pages, photos, index.
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| 16 |
J. Morton (Hoot) Gibson [Smyrna mayor] (C.I., Vol. III) by Allen
A. Steinhauser (1981). 12 pages, copy of campaign ad,
index.
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| 17 |
J.B.
Stoner [Marietta white racist] by Janice D. Wilson (1981). 18
pages, no index.
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| 18 |
Edna
Poole Lee Rensink [Marietta High School principal] (C.I., Vol.
IV) by Susan Demming Irvin (1981). 17 pages, photo,
index.
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| 19 |
Henry
D. Meaders [Marietta physician] (C.I., Vol. IV) by Ruth W. Burgess
(1981). 15 pages, photo, index.
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| 20 |
Claude
Edwin Chandler [Woodstock mayor and businessman] by Thomas A.
Scott (1980). 16 pages, no index.
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| 21 |
Cassie
Wingo Chastain [Cobb County farm wife] by Eugene R. Huck and Thomas
A. Scott (1980). 30 pages, copy of 1924 newspaper
article about Mr. Chastain, no index.
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| 22 |
Rev.
K. B. Robertson [Cobb County clergyman] (C.I., Vol. V) by Burton
M. Wamble (1981). 14 pages, index.
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| 23 |
Henry
L. Williams, Sr. [Cobb County state court clerk] (C.I., Vol. V)
by Dennis L. Duncan (1981). 11 pages, index.
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| 24 |
Frances R. Owen [Cherokee County civic leader] (C.I., Vol. V)
by Gary S. McCoy (1981). 14 pages, index.
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| 25 |
Loyd
C. Cox [Marietta Schools Superintendent] (C.I., Vol. VI) by John
S. Starratt (1981). 10 pages, index.
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| 26 |
Joyce
Ann Brown [Cobb County educator] (C.I., Vol. VI) by Rebecca G.
Tidwell (1982). 8 pages, index.
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| 27 |
Gail
B. Meacham [Cobb County educator] (C.I., Vol. VI) by Christine
M. Dunegan (1982). 14 pages, index.
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| 28 |
Morgan
Thomas [Marietta city councilman and Cobb County civic leader]
(C.I., Vol. VII) by Janice P. Buckalew (1982).
14 pages, index.
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| 29 |
Georgia
Mae Adams [African-American educator] (C.I., Vol. VII) by H. David
Clay (1982). 16 pages, index.
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| 30 |
Ralph
W. Fowler, Jr. [Marietta physician] (C.I., Vol. VII) by Rebecca
G. Tidwell (1982). 9 pages, index.
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| 31 |
Robert
P. Coggins [Marietta physician and art collector] (C.I., Vol.
VIII) by Mark W. Rogers (1982). 11 pages, index.
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| 32 |
Betty
Shipman Bennett [conductor, Cobb Symphony] (C.I., Vol. VIII) by
Susan Leslie Barrett (1982). 10 pages, index.
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| 33 |
Charles
W. Massey [Cobb County railroad worker] (C.I., Vol. VIII) by Keith
Egan Limardo (1982). 17 pages, index.
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| 34 |
Luther
William Barber [Cobb County scoutmaster] (C.I., Vol. IX) by Philip
M. Neisler (1983). 12 pages, index.
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| 35 |
James
Dennis Kemp [Chairman, Cobb County Library System, Marietta Board
of Education] (C.I., Vol. IX) by Mark A.
Smith (1983). 10 pages, index.
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| 36 |
Fred
George Hull [clerk of City of Acworth] (C.I., Vol.IX) by Sheron
L. Wyant ((1981). 9 pages, index.
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| 37 |
L.
Henry Tumlin, Jr. [superintendent, Etowah Indian mounds] (C.I.,
Vol. X) by Arthur A. See, Jr. (1982). 7 pages, index.
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| 38 |
Wilson
David Hilton [ Chief, Cobb County Fire Department] (C.I., Vol.
X) by Randall K. Caudle (1983). 7 pages, index.
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| 39 |
Euel
Phillip McLemore [executive director, Downtown Marietta Development
Authority] (C.I., Vol. X) by Mark A. Smith (1982).
12 pages, index.
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| 40 |
Philip
L. Secrist [educator, preservationist] by Cathleen Cleland-Pero
(1982). 19 pages, no index.
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| 41 |
Walter
and Edith Cantrell [Cobb County farmers] by Ernest Wester and
Thomas A. Scott (1984). 33 pages, no index.
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| 42 |
Ernest
J. Wester [Cobb County extension agent] by Thomas A. Scott and
Jeffrey B. Grable (1984). 34 pages, no index.
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| 43 |
Yvonne
Teem Worley Randall [Cobb County artist] by Beverly D. Hale (1985).
31 pages, appendix of clippings and program, no index.
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| 44 |
William
R. Tapp, Jr. [Cobb County architect] (C.I., Vol. XI) by Denise
Lockaby (1985). 15 pages, index.
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| 45 |
James
Lacey [Gordon County educator] (C.I., Vol. XI) by Angelia Ramona
Corn (1984). 8 pages, index.
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B.
Cobb County Oral History Series
This series
consists of interviews with Cobb countians supported in part by generous
contributions since 1987 from the Marietta Kiwanis Club, Lockheed Aeronautical
Systems Co., and various businesses. All interviews listed have been bound
and are now available to the public through the Rare Book Room at KSU
and the Georgia Room of the Cobb County Library System.
| 01 |
Ruth
Anderson Northcutt [Marietta resident] by Mary B. Cawley and Thomas
A. Scott (1987). 48 pages, appendix containing a 5 page
interview by Susan Pace Stone (1984), index.
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| 02 |
Harvey
E. Durham and Bessie H. Durham [farmers in Mars Hill community]
by Mary B. Cawley and Thomas A. Scott (1987). 41 pages,
index.
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| 03 |
Cecil
F. Bullard [memories of Sheriff's department; A & M school]
by Mary B. Cawley (1987). 25 pages, index.
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| 04 |
Lex
and LeoDelle Jolley [development of East Cobb and Smyrna; county
bonds] by Mary Boswell Cawley (1987). 95 pages;
brief Jolley family history; index.
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| 05 |
Robert T. Garrison [president, Arrow Shirt Co.] by Mary B. Cawley
and Thomas A. Scott (1987). 49 pages, index.
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| 06 |
Jane B. Awtrey [Acworth resident] by Mary B. Cawley (1987). 23
pages, index.
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| 07 |
Alice Wylie Heck [local government employee, wife of County Commissioner
John Heck] by Mary Boswell Cawley (1987). 48 pages,
index.
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| 08 |
Fred
D. Bentley, Sr. [lawyer, former legislator, philanthropist] by
Mary B .Cawley and Thomas A. Scott 1987). 45 pages,
index.
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| 09 |
J.F. Shaw, Jr. [Marietta businessman] by Mary B. Cawley (1987).
72 pages, index.
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| 10 |
G. Conley Ingram, III [former member, Georgia Supreme Court] by
Thomas A. Scott, Craig E. Aronoff, and Mary B. Cawley
(1987). 41 pages, index.
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| 11 |
Harold
S. Willingham [former legislator, county attorney] by Beverly
D. Hale (1987). 88 pages, index.
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| 12 |
Mary Ellen Allgood [grew up on farm near Marietta Methodist Campgound]
by Barbara M. Wiley (1984). 16 pages, index.
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| 13 |
Edith
Mable Cole [great-granddaughter of Robert Mable] by Christopher
A. Wade (1984). 8 pages, index.
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| 14 |
Alfie Virginia Estes Chastain [farm wife, businesswoman in North
Cobb] by Cynthia Avonne Ryals (1989). 26 pages, index.
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| 15 |
Elizabeth
Morgan LIttle [music educator] by Derin E. Wilsden (1985). 11
pages, index.
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| 16 |
Jasper
N. Dorsey [Southern Bell executive; original holder, Chair of
Private Enterprise, KSC] by Thomas A. Scott (1989).
23 pages, index.
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| 17 |
Virginia Cooksey Hinton [charter faculty member; professor of
English] (1987). 52 pages, index.
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| 18 |
J.
Morgan Davis and Ruth Johnson Davis [memories of Clarkdale mill;
Austell area] by Mary B. Cawley (1987). 45 pages, short
history of the mill; index.
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| 19 |
Joe
Mack Wilson [state legislator; Marietta mayor] by Thomas A. Scott
and Kathleen S. Scott (1988 and 1992). 90 pages,
index.
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| 20 |
Judith Rice Lowry [development of Smyrna; memories of woolen mill]
by Mary B. Cawley (1987). 68 pages, index.
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| 21 |
Roy
Eugene Barnes [state senator; 1990 candidate for governor] by
Thomas A. Scott (1990). 59 pages, index.
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| 22 |
Ruth Asbell Ivey [secretary at Bell Aircraft Co.] by Kathryn A.
Kelley (1992). 28 pages, index.
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| 23 |
Judson C. Ward [Marietta native; Emory administrator] by Thomas
A. Scott (1992). 44 pages, index.
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| 24 |
Hugh
Lewis Grogan, Jr. [first black member of Marietta city council]
by Thomas A. Scott and Jeffrey B. Grable (1984). 27
pages, appendix, index.
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| 25 |
Alfred Jackson [historian of Mt. Zion AME Church and of blacks
in Kennesaw area] by Thomas A. Scott and Mary B. Cawley (1988).
42 pages, index.
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| 26 |
James
T. Anderson, Jr. [former owner of Anderson Chevrolet] by Mary
B. Cawley (1988). 29 pages, index.
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| 27 |
L.D.
(Buddy) Cheeks [grew up in house next to Lost Mt. Store, run by
his mother and uncle] by Thomas A. Scott and
Alan J. Martin (1992). 33 pages, index.
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| 28 |
Ernestine
J. Slade [black Bell Aircraft employee] by Kathryn A. Kelley (1992).
77 pages, index.
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| 29 |
John
Steve Frey, Sr., and Sara Skelton Bozeman Frey [Marietta grocer,
owner of "Big Chicken" property, former owner of KSU property]
by Mary Boswell Cawley (1988). 50 pages, index.
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| 30 |
Florence
Weldon Sibley, as remembered by Florence Fleming Corely [first
professional librarian of Clarke Library in Marietta] by
Thomas A. Scott (1995). 33 pages, index.
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| 31 |
Guy
H. Northcutt [Marietta Knitting Co.] by Thomas A. Scott and Kathleen
A. Scott (1973). 18 pages, index.
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| 32 |
Jessie
Mae Taylor [African-American educator; memories of Kennesaw black
community] by Mary B. Cawley (1988). 35 pages, index.
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William
G. Booth [great-grandson of Kennesaw blacksmith John Stanley Gibson;
son of Cherokee County school superintendent E.T. Booth;
former principal of Woodstock school] by Thomas A. Scott
(1995). 18 pages, index.
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Martha
and Mark Lemon [owners of historic Lemon home in Acworth] by Kathryn
A. Kelley (1993). 29 pages, plus appendix; index.
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| 35 |
Paul
A. and Louise M. Lovinggood [Lost Mountain farm family] by Thomas
A. Scott and Ernest J. Wester (1984). 25 pages, index.
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| 36 |
L.
Harold Glore [lifelong Mableton resident, law assistant to Georgia
Supreme Court] by Sara C. Williams (1984). 19 pages,
index, Mableton photos.
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| 37 |
Emory
Ray Sewell [North Cobb High School coach and athletic director]
by Jean A. Hames (1984). 33 pages, index.
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| 38 |
W.
Howard Ector [businessman, charter member of KSU Foundation, Georgia
Tech football star] by Thomas A. Scott (1995). 27 pages,
index.
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William
B. Dunaway [pharmacist, owner of 1848 House, member of KSU Foundation]
by Thomas A. Scott (1995). 47 pages, index.
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| 40 |
John
S. Frey, Jr. and Nina C. Frey [son of Steve Frey; memories of
Frey farm; friends of KSU] by Mary B. Cawley 1988). 30 pages,
index.
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| 41 |
R.
Sidney Clotfelter [Marietta businessman, charter member of KSU
Foundation] by Thomas A. Scott (1995). 19 pages, index.
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Louis
C. Walker and Josetta O. Walker [Marietta educators; Mr. Walker
was the first black male teacher at Marietta High School;
Mrs. Wlaker is administrator of the Woods-Wilkins Center
of the Marietta School System] by Thomas A. Scott (1996).
32 pages, index.
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Hattie
Gaines Wilson [pioneer black librarian in Marietta] by Mary B.
Cawley (1987) and Kathryn A. Kelley (1994). 92 pages,
index.
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| 44 |
Alec
Tregone [former editor of Marietta Daily Journal] by Thomas A.
Scott (1997). 27 pages, index.
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| 45 |
Bayard
M. and Mary Schloemann Cole [Marietta Republican activists] by
Thomas A. Scott (1997). 25 pages, index.
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Members
of Zion Baptist Church [church history; African-American history]
by Thomas A. Scott (1986). 68 pages, index.
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Winston
Strickland [African-American businessman and political activist]
by Kathryn A. Kelley (1994). 27 pages, index.
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| 48 |
Dorsey
Dodgen and Carolyn Dodgen Meadows [Repbulican activists; Republican
National Committeewoman] by Christina F. Jeffrey
and Thomas A. Scott (1997-98). 102 pages, index.
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| 49 |
Fred
V. Aiken [Republican State legislator; 7th district director for
Congressman Bob Barr] by Thomas A. Scott (1998). 35 pages, index.
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| 50 |
William
G. Gisel [former president Bell Aircraft Corporation] by Thomas
A. Scott and Hugh M Neeson (1998). 21 pages, index.
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| 51 |
Richard
W. Croop [Bell Aircraft employee in Buffalo and Marietta] by Thomas
A. Scott (1998). 21 pages, index.
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| 52 |
Stinson
Adams, Jr. [Bell Aircraft employee in B-4 Building] by Thomas
A. Scott (1998). 35 pages, indes.
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| 53 |
Thomas
V. Bockman [Bell Aircraft engineer] by Thomas A. Scott (1998).
26 pages, index.
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| 54 |
David
E. Miller, Sr. [helped build Bell plant for U.S. corps of Engineers
and Robert & Co.] by Thomas A. Scott (1999). 36 pages, index.
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| 55 |
William
J. (Bill) Bryne [Chairman, Cobb County Commission] by Thomas A.
Scott (1999). 30 pages, index.
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| 56 |
Kenneth
P. and Frances E. Youngs [former Bell and Lockheed employees]
by Thomas A. & Kathleen S. Scott (1999), 40 pages, index
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| 57 |
Dorothy
Petty Odom [former Bell employee] by Thomas A. Scott (1999), 15
pages, index.
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| 58 |
Amos
Durr [African-American skilled worker for City of Acworth; deacon
in Zion Hill Baptist Church] by Thomas A. Scott for the City of
Acworth (2000), 27 pp., index.
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| 59 |
Evelyn
Gragg [African-American domestic, resident of Acworth since 1907]
by Thomas A. Scott for the City of Acworth (2000). 35 pp., index.
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| 60 |
Fanny
B. McClure [first grade teacher for over forty years, mainly at
Acworth elementary School] by Thomas A. Scott for the City of Acworth
(2000). 32 pp., index. |
| 61 |
Kathryn
J. McDonald and Carolyn C. Price [widow of Congressman Larry McDonald
and staff member of the congressman's Marietta office] by Christina
F. Jeffrey and Thomas A. Scott (1999). 71 pp., index. |
| 62 |
George
Carson [plant engineer for Bell and Lockheed] by Mary B. Cawley
(1987). 46 pp., index. |
| 63 |
Joe
B. Gabriel [Bell and Lockheed worker, on B-29 flights from Pyote]
by Thomas A. Scott (2000). 31 pp., index. |
| 64 |
A.
Lee Rogers [public relations director at Lockheed] by Thomas A.
Scott and Mary B. Cawley (1987). 33 pp., index. |
| 65 |
Harold
S. Mintz [part of management team at Bell and Lockheed] by Thomas
A. Scott (2000). 43 pp., index. |
| 66 |
A
Celebration of Service to the Institution; Interviews with Longtime
Faculty and Administrators at Kennesaw State University by Thomas
A. Scott (1998 - 99). 51 pp., index. |
| 67 |
C.
Olan McCray [longtime Acworth resident, owned plumbing and electrical
business] by Thomas A. Scott for the city of Acworth (2000). 41
pp., index. |
| 68 |
Robert
J. and Betty Kienel [head of Unique Knitting Co.] by Thomas A. Scott
for the city of Acworth (2000). 36 pp., index. |
| 69 |
Harold
Brinson [first African-American star running back on football team
at Marietta High School] by Thomas A. Scott (1996). 7 pp., index |
| 70 |
Nancy
McMillan MacPherson [daughter of George H. McMillan, Cobb County
Commissioner, 1941 - 49] by Thomas A. Scott for the City of Acworth
(2000). 30 pp., index.
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Larry
Braden [owner of Lacey Drugs in Acworth] by Alice Jung for the City
of Acworth (2000). 10 pp., index. |
| 72 |
Sherman
A. Martin [part of Lockheed management for 49 years; in first group
to come to Marietta in 1951] by Thomas A. Scott (2000). 55 pp.,
index. |
| 73 |
Betty
L. Williams [one of the few female supervisors on the assembly
line at Bell Aircraft] by Thomas A. Scott (2000). 27 pp., index.
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| 74 |
Franklin
D. Leiter [Marietta businessman; charter member of Downtwon Marietta
Development Authority] by Thomas A. Scott (2000). 36 pp., index. |
| 75 |
Hugh
L. Gordon [Director of Personnel, Lockheed-Georgia; played key roles
in Plan for Progress and Merit Employers Association to integrate
the work force] by Joyce A. Patterson (2000). 19 pp., index. |
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Lillian
and William Corrigan [Civil rights and peace activists] by Thomas
A. Scott (2001). 27 pp., index. |
| 77 |
David
Hankerson [County Manager, Cobb County; first African-American to
serve as county manager anywhere in Georgia] by Thomas A. Scott
(1999). 46 pp., index. |
C.
Cherokee County Oral History Series
| 01 |
Sam
P. Burtz [Cherokee County judge] by Thomas A. Scott and Kathleen
S. Scott (1992). 30 pages, plus and 8 page speech on history
of courthouse; index.
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Numerous
other interviews have been conducted and transcribed. They will be added
to the list as they are edited, bound, and placed in the KSU Rare Book
Room and the Georgia Room of the Cobb County main public library.
D. North
Georgia Oral History Series
| 01 |
Norton Brown Tumlin, Horace W. Howard, and Miriam G. Howard [Bartow
County farmers; completed for the Etowah Foundation History Center's
barn exhibition] by Thomas A. Scott (1998), 32 pages, index.
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Mary
E. Hood [author; resident of Woodstock, GA; winner of 1984 Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; recipient of the author of the
decade award from Kennesaw State University in 2000] by Dede Yow
and Thomas A. Scott, with the assistance of Sallie Ellison Loy
(1999), 41 pages, index.
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Dr.
Susie W. Wheeler [Jeanes supervisor for African-American schools
in Bartow County; after integration, curriculum supervisor for
Bartow schools; leader in creating Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial]
by Thomas A. Scott. 33 pp., index.
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E. Georgia
Government History Series
| 01 |
Brant
Frost [leader of religious right, headed Pat Robertson's 1988
presidential campaign in Georgia] by Christina F. Jeffrey and
Thomas A. Scott (1998). 46 pages, index.
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Phillip
Neff, David C. Blevins, and Sheri H. Blevins [Dalton Republican
Party activists; supported Robertson delegates in 1988 party controversy]
by Christina F. Jeffrey and Thomas A. Scott (1998). 34 pages,
index.
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Department
of History and Philosophy
College of Humanities and Social
Sciences
Kennesaw State University
Updated
on 28 February 2002
Updated
on
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