Selected Interviews

As the online collection is still being updated, here is a selection of the SPOHP's contents, available for viewing by clicking on the interview number.

Selected summaries are posted for the CCC, EVG, FBL, FGM, FNP, FP, SEM, UF, UFA, UFCN, and UFHC projects.

CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps

This project includes a series of interviews with CCC members who talk about their experiences during the dark days of the Depression. All the interviewees talk about the pride they had in working with the CCC as eighteen-year-olds, and how the experience helped them grow and mature. All were from large families and the $25 a month they were required to send home was often the difference between survival and starvation.

• CCC 1: Fred White
• CCC 2: Hillary Cowart
• CCC 3: Talmadge Holmes
• CCC 4: James Keene
• CCC 5: Herschel Daniels
• CCC 6: Mike Tilgman
• CCC 7: Carol Burnett
• CCC 8: Sam Taylor
• CCC 9: Sara O'Neal, Alfred Seymore, Sam Thompson
• CCC 10: Bernard Splichal
• CCC 11: Richard Ives
• CCC 12: Sam Thompson
• CCC 13: Hillary Bush

EVG: Everglades

This project includes a series of interviews regarding the Florida Everglades Restoration.

• EVG 2: Nathaniel Reed
• EVG 3: Stewart D. Strahl
• EVG 4: Terry Rice
• EVG 5: Malcolm S. Wade, Jr.
• EVG 7: John Ogden
• EVG 8: Estus Whitfield
• EVG 9: Johnny C. Jones

FBL: Florida Business Leaders

This project includes a series of interviews with prominent Florida business leaders.

• FBL 3: Ben Hill Griffin
• FBL 18: Kenneth Keene

FGM: Florida Growth Management

This project includes interviews related to growth and population in Florida.

• FGM 1: Earl M. Starnes
• FGM 3: Nathaniel Reed
• FGM 4: Howard T. Odum

FNP: Florida Newspapers

This project includes interviews with persons related to newspapers in Florida.

• FNP 17: Eugene Patterson
• FNP 21: Ricky Edward Bragg
• FNP 25: Beatrice L. Hines
• FNP 27: Jim McGauley
• FNP 29: Hubert Mizell
• FNP 33: Norman G. Carlson
• FNP 37: John Haile
• FNP 38: David Lawrence
• FNP 39: Jesse H. James
• FNP 41: Fred Pettijohn
• FNP 42: Al Burt
• FNP 43: John H. Perry, Jr.
• FNP 44: Larry Guest
• FNP 48: Lucy Morgan
• FNP 49: Edward Barber
• FNP 50: Jesse Earle Bowden
• FNP 51: Thomas Greene
• FNP 53: Herbert Davidson, Jr.
• FNP 55: Carl Hiaasen
• FNP 56: Diane McFarlin
• FNP 57: Anne Sauls
• FNP 58: S. L. Frisbie

FP: Florida Politics

This project includes a series of interviews with Florida politicians.

• FP 2: John Moyle
• FP 5: Louis De La Parte
• FP 6: John French
• FP 7: William A. Shands
• FP 28: Robert "R.A." Gray
• FP 30 / 31: Claude Pepper
• FP 33: Lawton Chiles
• FP 35: Bill David
• FP 36: Art Hallgren
• FP 37 / 38 / 39: Thomas LeRoy Collins
• FP 41: Marshall Harris
• FP 43: Mallory Horne
• FP 44: Allen Morris
• FP 45: Thomas W. Bryant
• FP 46: Don Pride
• FP 52: Terrel Sessums
• FP 53: L.E. "Tommy" Thomas
• FP 55: Ralph Turlington
• FP 56: Dean Rusk
• FP 59: William Westmoreland
• FP 63: George McGovern
• FP 64 / 65: C. Farris Bryant
• FP 66: Douglas "Pete" Peterson
• FP 68: Eugene McCarthy
• FP 69: Paula Hawkins
• FP 70: Michael Copps
• FP 72: Larry Rockwood
• FP 73: Bob Martinez

SEM: Seminoles

The Seminole project incorporates more than 200 interviews from the 1970s into a publication. This endeavor is being supported by the University Press of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The following references constitute a small sample of the entire collection. Please note they are excerpts from transcripts rather than abstracts.

• SEM 11: Lottie Baxley
• SEM 32: Jane Wood Reno
• SEM 48: Virgil Harrington
• SEM 89: Billy Osceola

UF: University of Florida

Interviews with University of Florida faculty and staff.

• UF 313: Kevin McCarthy
• UF 314: Ray O. Weimar

UFA: University of Florida Athletics

This project includes interviews with UF athletes and coaches.

• UFA 11: John M. "Jack" Hariston
• UFA 13: Ruth H. Alexander

UFCN: University of Florida College of Nursing

This project includes interviews with founding or early members of the College of Nursing and those who were associated with the college around its early beginnings. In a post-WWII Quonset Hut in 1956, Dean Dorothy Smith dreamed of educating nurses in an academic setting and graduating future nurses who could deliver humanistic and intelligent care.

The J. Hillis Miller Health Center was under construction as the planning began. The interviewees recall their own educational experiences, their relationship with Dorothy Smith, and their professional experiences as nurses in many fields of nursing specialty. The discussions include their experiences with students and patients and the social influences that affected them all. Ann Smith coordinates the College of Nursing project.

• UFCN 1: Elizabeth "Betty" Hilliard
• UFCN 2: Lucille Mercadante
• UFCN 4: Iona Pettengill

UFHC: University of Florida Health Center

We are interviewing persons who played major roles in the establishment and development of the J. Hillis Miller Health Center and College of Medicine at the University of Florida. With a grant from Dr. Tom V. Harris, Assistant Vice-President for Health Affairs, we are now working with Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig on another series of interviews.

• UFHC 17: Michael Wood
• UFHC 21: Richard P. Schmidt
• UFHC 22: Edward Woodward
• UFHC 28: Lois J. Malasanos
• UFHC 29: Dorothy M. Smith
• UFHC 33: Gerold Schielbler
• UFHC 35: Allen H. Neims
• UFHC 39: Russell Green
• UFHC 40: William Enneking
• UFHC 41: Shirley Graves
• UFHC 44: Leighton Cluff
• UFHC 45: Francisco Herrero
• UFHC 47: Jean Bennett

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