Guide to the Dr. Anne Lorrance Oral History Class Collection
Record Group 149
Date Span: 1995
Extent: 0.5 cf
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Anne Lorance assigned her Spring 1995 students to conduct oral history interviews with Wiregrass residents. She was a Prof. of Education at Troy State University Dothan. She earned her B.A., 1963, Southern Methodist; M.S.E., 1970, Central Arkansas; Ed.D, 1991, Memphis State. She was an adjunct professor and research associate at Memphis State University and a principal at Woodruff Primary School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was invited by the Arkansas Society to attend the inaugural activities of President Clinton. She joined TSUD's faculty in Jan. 1993 and left ca. 2003.
Scope / Content: Most of the products concern rural life in south Alabama during the 20th century. Contains releases from interviewers and narrators, transcripts, notes, correspondence and standard and mini sound cassette tapes of 36 oral history interviews concerning early lives of rural people from South Alabama. Some oral histories are incomplete.
Organization: Organized into 2 series by format: 1. Transcriptions / paperwork. 2. Audio Cassettes. Each series arranged alphabetically by narrators' last names.
Processing Note: The tape 鈥楻ural Life in Southeast Alabama' has three narrators. Cross reference files were included under the name of each narrator.
Provenance: Lorance gave the project's work product to Dothan Landmarks Foundation, Inc. ca. 1995. DLF transferred it to WA ca. 2002. WA postponed accessioning until mid-2010 in order to make decisions about missing releases. Collection transferred from subgroup of Dothan Landmarks Foundation, Inc., RG 030 to independent record group.
Preferred Citation: Dr. Anne Lorance Oral History Project, RG149. Wiregrass Archives, 好色先生TV Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL.
Access/User Limits?: Closed; see Archivist for permission.
Proc Date: 06/25/2013
Processors: S.Bryant/DS
INVENTORY
Series 1: Transcriptions. Also available as PDFs
File I.D. Narrator / Date / Topics
149-10-0618-001-001 Beasley, Lee Walker, 1/31/1995.
Topics: School life and childhood in Montgomery, AL, in the interwar years (1917-1939)
149-10-0618-001-002 Bell, Mattie, 1/27/1995.
Topics: School and childhood in Dothan, AL, during interwar years and WW2. Father was 1st
black policeman in Dothan; family caf茅 (Blue Front Caf茅), beauty shop, changes in
the black community,
149-10-0618-001-003 Bradshaw, Mitchell, [1995].
Topics: Life in the Depression Era Houston County, AL.
149-10-0618-001-004 Lester, Weatha Louisa Bundrick, 4/1/1993.
Topics: Childhood and family life in Cordele, GA, in the interwar years. Family history
of Lesters.
149-10-0618-001-005 Carthon, Golder Lee (See Rural Life in Southeast Alabama, file 149-10-0618-001-027)
149-10-0618-001-006 Clearman, Barbara C., 1/27/1995.
Topics: Teaching in Miller County, Colquitt, GA, 1949-1900s.
149-10-0618-001-007 Cross, H. B., 1/26/1995.
Topics: Rural life in the Depression Era and New Deal Era Seminole County, GA.
149-10-0618-001-008 Culpepper, Mary, 1/31/1995.
Topics: Going to School in Brussels, Belgium, during WWII.
149-10-0618-001-009 Dillionare, Sylvia, 1/28/1995.
Topics: Life at home in Enterprise and Ft. Rucker (Ft. Novosel) during Vietnam War, esp.
1967.
149-10-0618-001-010 Espy, Jane, 2/7/1995.
Topics: History of Abbeville H. S. beginning in ca. 1910s.
149-10-0618-001-011 Faine, Jerry L., 1/31/1995.
Topics: Faine was principal of Stringer Street Elementary School in Dothan, AL, 1967 - 1995.
Summary of interview about Stringer Street Elementary's history.
149-10-0618-001-012 Gamble, Lynwood, n/a
149-10-0618-001-013 Green, Berta, 1/30/1995.
Topics: Rural life and school in Southern AL (Louisville, AL) in the 1920s/1930s
149-10-0618-001-014 Green, James, 1/31/1995.
Topics: Green was mayor of Columbia, AL. Effects of major floods of 1990 & 1994 in Columbia,
AL.
149-10-0618-001-015 Grubbs, Rebecca (See Rural Life in Southeast Alabama, file 149-10-0618-001-027)
149-10-0618-001-016 Hannah, Edward. 1/28/1995.
Topics: History and Changes of the Cotton Mill in Geneva, AL, beginning in 1940.
149-10-0618-001-017 Hogans, Malcolm, 1/31/1995.
Topics: Different jobs: farming, sawmill, logging. Also discusses glaucoma-induced blindness
at 37 and how his family managed economically. He attended AIDB and afterwards made
baskets. Includes a newspaper article about him and two photos.
149-10-0618-001-018 Jordan, Faye Joyce, [1995].
Topics: Cotton Picking, Education, recreation in the 1940s/50s, in SE AL. Poverty and working
at young ages.
149-10-0618-001-019 Kirkland, Irene, [1995].
Topics: History of Webb (AL) Jr. High Lunchroom after 1946 reopening. Ms. Kirkland was a
cook there.
149-10-0618-001-020 Kline, Lavadous Snell, 1/28/1995.
Topics: Life on the farm, School, in 1920s through 1940s, near Skipperville, AL.
149-10-0618-001-021 Knight, Bobby Ray, 1/28/1993.
Topics: History of Opp & Micholas Mills. Mr. Knight began work in 1949, at 16, part time,
then college. Returned 1959, worked 35 years.
149-10-0618-001-022 Louis, Evelyn, 1/29/1995.
Topics: Ozark, AL schools, esp. Carroll H.S. in the 1980s while she attended.
149-10-0618-001-023 Marsh, Beatrice; 1/20/1995.
Topics: Attending school in Pansey, AL, in the 1920s, grades 1-9, starting late because
of family duties, dropping out because of a move.
149-10-0618-001-024 Martin, Marjorie, 1/26/1995.
Topics: Changes in education since Ms. Martin began teaching in 1948 (to her 1995 position
as DCS Elementary coordinator). Also, her student days in Utah.
149-10-0618-001-025 Mixon, Teresa Smith (See Rural Life in Southeast Alabama, file 149-10-0618-001-027)
149-10-0618-001-026 Purvis, Merle, 1/23/1995.
Topics: Great Depression and New Deal Eras, poverty, her life as a child and student in
New Brockton, AL.
149-10-0618-001-027 Rural Life in Southeast Alabama 1920-1995,
[1995].
Narrators: Grubbs, Rebecca ; Carthbon, Golder Lee.
Topics: Attending Black schools (grades 1-4 and 1-6 for 3 months per year) near Gordon,
AL, in 1910s, home life as sharecroppers, picking cotton.
149-10-0618-001-028 Sellers, Louie, 1/25/1995.
Topics: Sellers was a teacher, principal, and superintendent of Houston County (AL) schools.
Schooling in Webb and Columbia, AL, Military service (Navy) during Korean War, Teaching
beginning in 1956 in Ashford, AL. Principal at Webb School, 1965-1981; Houston Co
superintendent, 1981-85.
149-10-0618-001-029 Singers, Betty, 1/28/1995.
Topics: History of Eufaula, AL, & the Shorter Mansion.
149-10-0618-001-030 Smith, Grazia, 1/26/1995.
Topics: Growing up on a farm in Daleville, AL (1931-1946) then moving to town (Daleville),
German POWs as farm help, family store, School, Living in France in 1960s as Army
wife.
149-10-0618-001-031 Scott, Mary Ann Standland, 1/29/1995.
Topics: Life on the farm in Kynesville, FL, during and after WW2, jobs w/ World Book encyclopedia
and Marianna (FL) HS, marriage and family
149-10-0618-001-032 Strang, Florence Foy, 1/25/1995.
Topics: Life in early 20th century Eufaula, AL: Cars, telephones, movies, Chautauqua, family
store, hard times beginning in 1919.
149-10-0618-001-033 Tate, A. W. (Bill), 1/27/1995.
Topics: History of Newton (AL) Baptist Collegiate Institute by son of founder.
149-10-0618-001-034 Thompson, Sam D. (father) and Sarah P. (daughter),
1/29/1995.
Topics: Life in Columbia, AL beginning in 1910s. Flooding in 1916, 1929, 1941, 1994; labor
unions, railroad transport, work as a carpenter on dams, paper mills, Ft. Rucker (now
Ft. Novosel), Farley Nuclear Plant.
149-10-0618-001-035 Trawick, Milton, 1/30/1995.
Topics: Trawick was principal of Rucker Blvd. Elementary School in Enterprise, AL. since
1971 (3 years classroom before that). His career in education.
149-10-0618-001-036 Williams, Cornelia, 1/21/1995.
Topics: Environment and history of Chattahoochee River and Eufaula, AL, before & after building
of Walter F. George Dam and creation of Lake Eufaula. Ca. 1955. Construction of dam.
149-10-0618-001-037 Wise, Mary Agnes, 1/30/1995.
Topics: Her and her family's life during WWII. Family lived and farmed (using tenants) in
Geneva and Coffee counties (AL), she was at AL Women's College in 1941, brothers deployed
around US.
Series 1: Audiocassettes, arranged by Narrator (Standard size cassette unless noted)
File I.D. Arranged by narrator
149-10-0618-002-001 Beasley, Lee Walker
149-10-0618-002-002 Bradshaw, Mitchell
149-10-0618-002-003 Clearman, Barbara C.
149-10-0618-002-004 Cross, H. B.
149-10-0618-002-005 Culpepper, Mary
149-10-0618-002-006 Dillionare, Sylvia
149-10-0618-002-007 Espy, Jane
149-10-0618-002-008 Gamble, Lynwood
149-10-0618-002-009 Green, James
149-10-0618-002-010 Hannah, Edward
149-10-0618-002-011 Hogans, Malcom
149-10-0618-002-012 Hogans, Malcom
149-10-0618-002-013 Jordan, Faye Joyce
149-10-0618-002-014 Kirkland, Irene
149-10-0618-002-015 Kline, Lavadous Snell
149-10-0618-002-016 Knight, Bobby Ray
149-10-0618-002-017 Louis, Evelyn
149-10-0618-003-001 Marsh, Beatrice
149-10-0618-003-002 Martin, Marjorie
149-10-0618-003-003 Purvis, Merle
149-10-0618-003-004 Rural Life in Southeast Alabama 1920-1995
149-10-0618-003-005 Sellers, Louie
149-10-0618-003-006 Singers, Betty
149-10-0618-003-007 Smith, Grazia
149-10-0618-003-008 Scott, Mary Ann Standland
149-10-0618-003-009 Strang, Florence Foy
149-10-0618-003-010 Trawick, Milton
149-10-0618-003-011 Wise, Mary Agnes
149-10-0618-003-012 Bell, Mattie [Mini cassette tape]
149-10-0618-003-013 Green, Berta [Mini cassette tape]
149-10-0618-003-014 Thompson, Sam D. and Sarah P. [Mini cassette tape]
149-10-0618-003-015 Williams, Cornelia [Mini cassette tape]
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