This is the general oral history collection of the University of Texas at San Antonio Archives and Special Collections Department.
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[Identification of item], Oral History Collection, MS 200, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.
Edisen is a neurophysiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has been involved in medical researching and teaching for several decades. In 1963, Edisen had interactions with Jose Rivera that led her to a different outcome regarding JFK's assassination than that which was reached by the Warren Commission.
Topics:experiences with Jose Rivera, JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Planned Parenthood of Hidalgo County operates health clinics in the cities of McAllen, Mission, Edinburg and Weslaco. They provide family planning and sexual health care services for men and women. Daniel Chester is a medical doctor and has served on the Planned Parenthood of Hidalgo County Board. Kathryn Hearn was the Community Services Director at the time of the interview.
Topics: Birth control, abortion, reproductive rights
Saldana grew up in San Antonio and was the first member of her extended family to earn a college degree. She became a math teacher and taugher for many years at Oliver Wendell Holmes High School in San Antonio's Northside Independent School District. Saldana served as principal from 2003 until her retirement in 2007.
Topics: Growing up in San Antonio, discrimination, education, teaching career
Scheffrahn was born in East Prussia in May 1918 and spent his childhood in Rastenburg. He was drafted into the German Army at the onset of World War II and served from 1939-1945. After the war he and his wife immigrated to the US under the Displaced Person's Act. Scheffrahn worked as a watchmaker in California and moved to Boerne, Texas after retirement.
Topics: Life in Rastenberg, Germany, World War II, immigration
Arleigh B. Templeton was the first President of the University of Texas at San Antonio. He served as President from 1970 through December 1972. Before coming to UTSA, he was President of Sam Houston State University, 1963-1970, and later served as President of the University of Texas at El Paso, retiring in 1980.
Source: Arleigh B. Templeton Papers, 1965-1990, UA 99.0001, Archives and Special Collections, University of Texas at San Antonio Library.
About UTSA: being the president, the establishment of the university, the establishment of the Library (and his work w/O'Neil Ford on the building), the controversy surrounding the placement of UTSA in northwest San Antonio, hiring faculty and administrators, his relationship with Tomas Rivera, Bicultural-bilingual studies, academic programs he initiated, why he left UTSA, criticisms of the administration of UTSA in 2003.
Other: School administration in public schools and Alvin Junior College, being the President of Sam Houston State University and UTEP, establishment of the library at Sam Houston State University, his relationship with the UT Board of Regents and Texas Legislature, the Good Government League (San Antonio, Tex.), Job Corps, being approached by UTEP and his work there, his management of school budgets.
White was born in San Antonio and held civil service positions at several bases in Texas during World War II, including Camp Stanley and Camp Normoyle.
Topics: World War II, civil service work at bases in Texas