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Title
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Sister Mary Michel Boulus oral history interview, 1993 June 28
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Interviewee
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Boulus, Mary Michel, Sister, 1926-2012
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Interviewer
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Greeson, Jennifer
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Place of Publication
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Publisher
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J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Date of Interview
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1993-06-28
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Physical Description
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1 audio file (56:18) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (21 pages)
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Object Type
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sound recording-nonmusical
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Genre
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spoken word
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Language
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eng
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Interviewee Biography
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Sister Mary Michel Boulus was a 66-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in the Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse in Belmont, North Carolina. She was born in China Grove, North Carolina in 1926. She was educated at UNC Greensboro and John Carroll University, and was employed as a high school teacher, and math instructor, treasurer, and president of Sacred Heart College.
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Abstract
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Sister Mary Michel Boulus recounts her life and her forty-five year career in Catholic education and administration. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Sister Boulus grew up in Concord and describes the challenges the Catholic community faced there, including some of the difficulties she personally encountered as a Catholic in a majority-Protestant community. She taught math at both public and Catholic schools before joining the Sisters of Mercy in 1949 and provides a summary of the order's history and how the Sisters became affiliated with Belmont Abbey. She shares some of her experiences working at Catholic high schools around the state and discusses her experiences as the president of Sacred Heart College. Sister Boulus also reflects on the challenges that faced Catholic educational institutions at that time, including the order's declining numbers, the popularity of pastoral ministry over education for newer sisters, and the resulting financial burdens placed on these institutions as they were forced to replace aging religious staff with lay people.
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Digital Object Notes
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MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
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Interviewee Occupations
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College administrators
Nuns
Teachers
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Subjects--Names
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Boulus, Mary Michel, Sister, 1926-2012
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Subjects--Organizations
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Catholic Church
Sisters of Mercy
Belmont Abbey College
Sacred Heart College (Belmont, N.C.)
Charlotte Catholic High School (Charlotte, N.C.)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Subjects--Topics
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Catholics--Education
Catholic schools
Catholic universities and colleges
Nuns as teachers
School integration
Basketball
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Subjects--Geographic
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North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Concord
North Carolina--Belmont (Gaston County)
North Carolina--Asheville
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Subjects--Genre
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Interviews
Oral histories
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Coverage--Dates
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1930-2000
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Digital Collection Title
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Levine Museum of the New South
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Digital Collection Series Title
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Professional Women
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Digital Project Title
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Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city
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Rights
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The materials included on this web site are freely available for private study, scholarship or non-commercial research under the fair use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code). Any use beyond the provisions of fair use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly publication, broadcast, redistribution or mounting on another web site always require prior written permission and may also be subject to additional restrictions and fees. UNC Charlotte does not hold literary rights to all materials in its collections and the researcher is responsible for securing those rights when needed. Copyright information for specific collections is available upon request.
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Grant Information
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Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Internet Media Type
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audio/mpeg
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Identifier
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MU-BO0072
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Handle URL
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:209