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Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 22, 1993 July 19
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1993-07-19
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Women in mathematics, Women college administrators, Public universities and colleges, Universities and colleges--Administration, College presidents, Junior colleges
Description: A woman with a life-long commitment to education, Bonnie Cone discusses her many roles as teacher, college administrator, and mentor. She discusses her youth in South Carolina and the educators who influenced her in both her hometown and during he...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1998-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts his childhood growing up in the Charlotte area during World War II and his experiences attending Duke University in the 1940s and 1950s. The son of a textil...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 2, 2012 March 28
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2012-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Public universities and colleges--Administration, Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Students, Teachers
Description: In this interview, Jack Claiborne, long-time reporter and editor with The Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares his recollections of Bonnie Cone, Charlotte College'...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1991
Subjects--Topical: Orphanages, Civil rights movements, Depressions, Teacher-student relationships, Student movements, Methodist Church--Clergy
Description: In this 1991 interview, student Michael Wilson interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon about his life experiences in the North Carolina Piedmont. Dr. Witherspoon describes his unusual childhood, the latter part of which was spent at The Children's Home, a...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 3, 1993 February 19
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1993-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Teacher-student relationships, Methodist Church--Clergy, Social change
Description: In this 1993 interview, student Mitch Miles interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon, founding chair of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte, who relates his life story and reflects on changes that he witnessed in the American South between the 1930s and the...