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Bailey Patrick oral history interview, 2021 November 18
Title
Bailey Patrick oral history interview, 2021 November 18
Creator
Patrick, Bailey
Date Created
2021-11-18
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Christianity and culture, Commercial real estate
Description
Charlotte native Bailey Patrick played a key role in assembling land for several Charlotte Y projects, most notably the Stratford Richardson branch. The interview covered those efforts as well as discussions of racial diversity within the YMCA and...
Denny Hammack oral history interview, 2021 September 23
Title
Denny Hammack oral history interview, 2021 September 23
Creator
Hammack, Denny
Date Created
2021-09-23
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Cities and towns--Growth, Gentrification
Description
Longtime YMCA board member Denny Hammack has been especially involved with the Johnston YMCA, which began as a project of the Johnston Mill in the early 1950s. The North Charlotte area, now known as North Davidson or NoDa, has undergone many chang...
Stan Law oral history interview, 2021 August 25
Title
Stan Law oral history interview, 2021 August 25
Creator
Law, Stan
Date Created
2021-08-25
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, African American leadership, Discrimination in education, Career development
Description
Charlotte native Stan Law is one of the most active and successful African American leaders in the Charlotte YMCA. He became involved with the Y when his parents sent him to a YMCA summer camp, and he got his first job there soon after college. He...
Fred Ashford oral history interview 2, 2021 July 29
Title
Fred Ashford oral history interview 2, 2021 July 29
Creator
Ashford, Fred
Date Created
2021-07-29
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Community development, Mills and mill-work, Recreation
Description
Fred Ashford's first contact with the YMCA came in the summer of 1952, when he was invited to play baseball for the Johnston textile mill and run youth programs for the then-fledgling Johnston YMCA. He subsequently decided to make the Y a car...
Todd Tibbits oral history interview, 2021 July 16
Title
Todd Tibbits oral history interview, 2021 July 16
Creator
Tibbits, Todd
Date Created
2021-07-16
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Social integration, Current events, Christianity and culture, Political and social views
Description
Todd Tibbits was CEO of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte from March of 2016 to August of 2021. He had previously worked for YMCAs in Toledo, Ohio and in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. As he noted, he headed the Charlotte Y at an especially challeng...
Fred Ashford oral history interview 1, 2021 July 1
Title
Fred Ashford oral history interview 1, 2021 July 1
Creator
Ashford, Fred
Date Created
2021-07-01
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Sports, Mills and mill-work
Description
Fred Ashford's first contact with the YMCA came in the summer of 1952, when he was invited to play baseball for the Johnston textile mill and run youth programs for the then-fledgling Johnston YMCA. He subsequently decided to make the Y a car...
Terry Burris oral history interview 2, 2021 June 17
Title
Terry Burris oral history interview 2, 2021 June 17
Creator
Burris, Terry
Date Created
2021-06-17
Subjects--Topical
Transgender people, Gay clubs, Gay bars, Beauty contests, Drag queens, Female impersonators
Description
In this second of several interviews, Terry Burris, aka Tiffany Storm, proprietor of Chasers Bar and Grill in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses her experiences as a contestant in the Miss Gay America pageant during the 1990s, and her success in ...
Terry Burris oral history interview 1, 2021 June 3
Title
Terry Burris oral history interview 1, 2021 June 3
Creator
Burris, Terry
Date Created
2021-06-03
Subjects--Topical
Transgender people, Gay clubs, Gay bars, Drag queens, Drag shows, AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects
Description
Terry Burris, whose stage name is Tiffany Storm, discusses her life, and her career as a drag queen, nightclub manager and proprietor in Charlotte, North Carolina. [All times approximate]. Ms. Burris introduces herself as the third owner of Chaser...
Dean Jones oral history interview, 2021 April 7
Title
Dean Jones oral history interview, 2021 April 7
Creator
Jones, Dean
Date Created
2021-04-07
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Fund raising, Social integration, Equality, COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects
Description
Dean Jones, a graduate of Davidson College, was hired in 2000 to create a formalized fundraising department for the Charlotte YMCA. He began the interview with a discussion of the tutoring program Project Starfish, one of the Y's early effort...
Andy Calhoun oral history interview, 2021 April 6
Title
Andy Calhoun oral history interview, 2021 April 6
Creator
Calhoun, Andy
Date Created
2021-04-06
Subjects--Topical
Young Men's Christian associations, Cities and towns--Growth, Equality, Social problems--Economic aspects
Description
Andy Calhoun spent his entire career at the Charlotte YMCA. He started as an assistant youth director in 1972 and retired as CEO in 2016. During that time, he helped manage an era of rapid growth of the Charlotte YMCA, which paralleled the tremend...
Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29
Title
Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29
Creator
Jutila, Alex
Date Created
2019-10-29
Subjects--Topical
Student movements, Education, Higher, Civil rights movements
Description
Alex Jutila, a former student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-founder of Customer 49, a student activist group active from 2015-2018, explains how he started Customer 49 with Noe Pliego Campos. Topics discussed include the ...
Jess George oral history interview, 2019 July 29
Title
Jess George oral history interview, 2019 July 29
Creator
George, Jess
Date Created
2019-07-29
Subjects--Topical
Immigrants, Immigrants--Civil rights, Latino communities, Immigrants--Services for, Latin Americans, Social justice, Hispanic Americans
Description
Jess George, a former staff member at La Coalicion, or the Latin American Coalition (LAC), in Charlotte North Carolina, worked for the non-profit for eleven years, from 2003-2014. In this interview, Ms. George discusses her work with grass-roots o...
Zack Wyatt oral history interview, 2019 April 1
Title
Zack Wyatt oral history interview, 2019 April 1
Creator
Wyatt, Zack, 1980-
Date Created
2019-04-04
Subjects--Topical
Urban agriculture, Farms, Nonprofit organizations, Food security, African Americans--Social conditions
Description
Zack Wyatt is the executive director at Carolina Farm Trust, a non-profit organization founded in 2015 which seeks to support local farmers and to educate communities on the importance of local food. Mr. Wyatt provides insight into the challenges ...
Millie Cox oral history interview, 2019 March 15
Title
Millie Cox oral history interview, 2019 March 15
Creator
Cox, Millie
Date Created
2019-03-15
Subjects--Topical
International relations, United States. Department of State, Globalization, Exchange of persons programs, Volunteers, Immigration, Non-Profit Organization, Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations, Religious institutions
Description
Millie Cox discusses her career as the International Visitor Program director at International House in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1986-1990. Topics discussed include Charlotte's growth in international awareness, International House&apo...
David Stewart oral history interview 2018 December 14
Title
David Stewart oral history interview 2018 December 14
Creator
Stewart, David Wayne
Date Created
2018-12-14
Subjects--Topical
Immigrants, Cultural awareness, Latin Americans, Emigration and immigration law, Nonprofit organizations
Description
David Stewart discusses his career as the program designer of the Immigration Advocacy Project and later as Executive Director of International House in Charlotte, North Carolina. The interview examines Charlotte's growth in international awa...
Kimm Jolly oral history interview, 2018 December 4
Title
Kimm Jolly oral history interview, 2018 December 4
Creator
Jolly, Kimm
Date Created
2018-12-04
Subjects--Topical
International relations, United States. Department of State, Globalization, Exchange of persons programs, Volunteers, Immigration, Non-Profit Organization, Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations, Religious institutions
Description
Kimm Jolly discusses her ten year career as the Executive Director of International House in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1985-1995. Topics discussed include Charlotte's growth in international awareness, International House's interac...
Charles T. Davidson oral history interview, 2018 October 15
Title
Charles T. Davidson oral history interview, 2018 October 15
Creator
Davidson, Charles T. (Charles Tompkins)
Date Created
2018-10-15
Subjects--Topical
Construction industry, Civil engineering, Structural engineering, Labor unions, Contracts--Government, Business logistics, Corporate culture, Privatization, Business failures, Construction industry--Technological innovations, Religion
Description
Charles T. "Charlie" Davidson, former president of J.A. Jones Construction Co., discusses his life, his family, the history of J.A. Jones and affiliated companies, and the development of the construction industry, during the half century from the ...
Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 2, Date 2018, April 20
Title
Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 2, Date 2018, April 20
Creator
Ruff, Ellen, T.
Date Created
2018-04-20
Subjects--Topical
Job hunting, Contracts, Legal assistance to the poor, Nuclear power plants, Trade regulation, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description
In this second of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses how she met her husband in law school at UNC Chapel Hill, their relationship, and his background before they met. She also talks abou...
Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 1, Date 2018 April 18
Title
Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 1, Date 2018 April 18
Creator
Ruff, Ellen T. (Ellen Tarte)
Date Created
2018-04-18
Subjects--Topical
Stuttering, Public schools, Law schools, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description
In this first of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses her earliest childhood memories of her life in rural Connecticut and what she knows about her family's history. Ms. Ruff goes int...
Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 4, 2015 October 5
Title
Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 4, 2015 October 5
Creator
Taylor, Tonda, 1940-
Date Created
2015-10-05
Subjects--Topical
Coming out (Sexual orientation), Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Gay youth, Gay youth--Services for, Homophobia, Nonprofit organizations
Description
In this fourth of four interviews, Tonda Taylor, long-time activist for LGBTQ+ rights and founder of Time Out Youth (TOY) in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls the beginning stages of TOY. Ms. Taylor discusses her previous psychiatric work with Ch...