Town of Calhoun, South Carolina oral history collection, 1988-1989 (bulk 1988).

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Town of Calhoun, South Carolina oral history collection, 1988-1989 (bulk 1988).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62586420

This collection contains 24 cassette tapes that document interviews conducted by W.J. Megginson during research for a 1989 lecture entitled Calhoun, South Carolina: The Founding of the Town, Its Early Years, and Its Relationship to Clemson Agricultural College, 1890-1910. The individuals who grew up in and around the town of Calhoun and recount the everyday life and unique character of the community are: Beth Anderson, Mamie Morgan Bishop, Rosamond Lynn Boggs, Lucinda Reid Brown, Claude T. Fendley, Jack L. Fendley, Ray H. Fendley, Julius C. "Mike" Hubbard, Jr., William B. "Judge" Keller, Ina S. Megginson, Mildred Cochran Mixon, Edward S. Olson, Mary L. Olson, Eva Payne, Jane Vandiver Ramsey, Frances H. Smith, and George C. Summey.

.25 cu. ft. 2 boxes.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7830523

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Ramsey, Jane Vandiver.

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Fendley, Claude T.

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Keller, William B. (William Bradford), 1950-

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Boggs, Rosamond Lynn.

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Brown, Lucinda Reid.

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Payne, Eva.

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Megginson, W. J.

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This project sought to explore and preserve aspects of the local African American community specifically within the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens. Scholars had previously made note of the fact that there had been little, if any, analytical or documentary data collected regarding the black community with respect to the South Carolina Upper Piedmont area. Both the need for and the timing of an investigative project seemed to be at a critical point in 1989- 1990. From a p...

Mixon, Mildred Cochran.

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Bishop, Mamie Morgan.

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Anderson, Beth, 1903-1997.

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Megginson, Ina S.

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Fendley, Ray H.

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Smith, Frances H.

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Olson, Edward S.

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In Jun 1944, Edward S. Olson (b. Scarsdale, New York - ) served in the U.S. Army as Company Commander of H Company, 355th Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry Division. From the description of Holocaust: Ohrdruf memoir. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 86118746 ...

Hubbard, Julius C.

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Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina

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Three Clemson cadets; George Chaplain, Paul L. Tobey, and J. Henry Woodward are credited with preparing this report. Cadets from the junior and senior classes were gathered to the campus chapel on April 18, 1935 in order to evaluate professors from the schools of: Agriculture, Textiles, Vocational Education, Chemistry and Geology, Engineering, and General Science. The report was presented to President Sikes upon it completion. From the description of Student faculty evaluations (Clem...

Summey, George

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Olson, Mary L.

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Fendley, Jack L.

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