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Title: Astrid Chirinos oral history interview, 2002 September 11
Creator: Chirinos, Astrid, 1960-
Date Created: 2002-09-11
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Americans--Social conditions, Emigration and immigration, Nationalism, Sex role, Biculturalism, Religion and culture, Cities and towns--Growth, Globalization
Description: Astrid Chirinos discusses her experience as a Venezuelan immigrant to the United States. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Ms. Chirinos moved to Raleigh, North Carolina with the encouragement of her father to attend St. Mary's College. Ms. Chirinos shar...

Title: Beverly Moore oral history interview, 2005 May 27
Creator: Moore, Beverly, 1947-
Date Created: 2005-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Special education, Exceptional children, Teachers
Description: Beverly Moore discusses her experience with behaviorally and emotionally disturbed children, and her connection with the open school program in Charlotte. While Ms. Moore began her career in the Columbia, South Carolina school district, she eventu...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 1, 2005 January 6
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part one of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal discusses her experience with open education in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal describes open education as a method that gives students the opportunity to think creatively, m...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-13
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...

Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 2, 2006 February 23
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2006-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training, Magnet schools, Federal aid to education, School integration
Description: In this second interview, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) administrator Carol Newman continues to discuss the successes and challenges of the city's open schools program, but also focuses on the emergence and significance of magnet school...

Title: Carolyn P. Powell oral history interview, 2004 December 2
Creator: Powell, Carolyn P.
Date Created: 2004-12-02
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Teachers, School management and organization, Student activities, Multiculturalism, Education--Experimental methods
Description: Carolyn Powell discusses her experiences as both a teacher and administrator at Piedmont Open Middle School. Ms. Powell began her tenure at Piedmont as a teacher in 1978, and held the position of assistant principal from 1994 to 2004. Ms. Powell d...

Title: Cindy Thomson oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Thomson, Cindy, 1946-
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Sexism, Sexism in mass media, Sex discrimination in employment, Feminism--Political aspects, Women--Social conditions, Women--Political activity
Description: Cindy Thomson recounts her experiences with the National Organization for Women (NOW) and as a feminist activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. She explains how she became involved with NOW, discusses her role in the development of the Charlotte ch...

Title: Daniel Ford Faris oral history interview, 2005 June 22
Creator: Faris, Daniel Ford, 1944-
Date Created: 2005-06-22
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Teachers, Language arts (Middle school), Teaching teams, Grading and marking (Students), School discipline--Evaluation, Student-centered learning, Active learning, Mixed ability grouping in education
Description: Teacher Daniel Ford Faris describes the open education learning environment at Piedmont Open Middle School between 1977 and 1997. He discusses his methods of teaching students and compares his teaching methods during his time at Spaugh Middle Scho...

Title: Darrell Blackwelder oral history interview, 2003 October 3
Creator: Blackwelder, Darrell E. (Darrell Eugene), 1954-
Date Created: 2003-10-03
Subjects--Topical: Agritourism, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural conservation--Public opinion, Agricultural conservation--Economic aspects, Agricultural conservation--Citizen participation, Sustainable agriculture, Farm management--Planning
Description: Darrell Blackwelder discusses his work as an extension agent of horticulture for Rowan County and his efforts to preserve the agricultural resources and culture of the community. Topics discussed include the agricultural preservation practices of ...

Title: Emilio Estrada oral history interview, 2002 October 1
Creator: Estrada, Emilio, 1955-
Date Created: 2002-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Ranch life, Cheese, Sex role, Immigrants--Economic conditions
Description: Emilio Estrada and his wife Isabel discuss emigrating from southern Mexico, near Acapulco, to Charlotte, North Carolina with their two sons in 1995 and how their lives are different in the United States. Mr. Estrada describes how he and fellow imm...

Title: Glenda Wertheimer oral history interview, 2002 July 25
Creator: Wertheimer, Glenda S.
Date Created: 2002-07-25
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Americans--Social conditions, Emigration and immigration, Latin Americans--Religion, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Latin Americans--Education
Description: Glenda Wertheimer discusses her experience as an immigrant from Guatemala who eventually moved to Davidson, North Carolina. She recalls living in New Jersey and the different jobs she held before her marriage. Ms. Werthemeir talks about the circum...

Title: Khue Khang oral history interview, 2003 July 7
Creator: Khang, Khue
Date Created: 2003-07-07
Subjects--Topical: Agricultural conservation, Agricultural conservation--Public opinion, Agricultural conservation--Citizen participation, Environmental protection, Real estate business--Law and legislation, Race relations--Study and teaching, Hmong (Asian people)--Social life and customs
Description: Khue Khang discusses his work as a real estate agent in Catawba County and his efforts to preserve the agricultural resources and environment of the community. He was president of the Hmong Association and an advocate for race relations. He also t...

Title: Magdalena Maiz-Pena oral history interview, 2002 September 12
Creator: Maiz-Pena, Magdalena
Date Created: 2002-09-12
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Biculturalism, Hispanic American families, Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs, Emigration and immigration, Immigrants--Social conditions, Spanish language--Study and teaching, Voluntarism, All Souls' Day
Description: Magdalena Maiz-Pena, a Spanish professor at Davidson College, talks about her life growing up near the Mexican-Texan border. Being born in Monterrey, Mexico, Ms. Maiz-Pena lived traveling between the United States and Mexico as she had family on e...

Title: Manuel Mendoza oral history interview, 2002 September 13
Creator: Mendoza, Manuel A. (Manuel Antonio), 1966-
Date Created: 2002-09-13
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Emigration and immigration, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Immigrants--Cultural assimilation, Marginality, Social, Soccer, Soccer--Social aspects, Protestantism, Latin Americans--Religion, Race relations
Description: Manuel Mendoza immigrated to the United States from Santa Ana, El Salvador in December of 1999. He describes differences between the United States and El Salvador and the rest of Latin America, including language, culture, and way of life. Mr. Men...

Title: Marion Lytle oral history interview, 2003 October 17
Creator: Lytle, Marion, 1957-
Date Created: 2003-10-17
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Family farms, Dairy farms, Farmers--Attitudes, Land use, Rural, Zoning, County government--Planning, Rural development, Sustainable development, Natural areas, Agritourism
Description: Marion Lytle speaks with knowledge and first-hand experience of the people and social and economic issues facing Rowan County. He begins by describing his youth growing up in a farming community in Buncombe County. Mr. Lytle states that people in ...

Title: Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon oral history interview, 2005 November 18
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2005-11-18
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School management and organization, Education--Philosophy, Multicultural education, Educational assessment, Educational tests and measurements
Description: Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon discuss their experiences with Irwin Elementary School and open education in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Wright was a teacher and principal at Irwin Elementary from the 1970s-1990s and talks about the concept ...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 1, 2006 February 14
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School children--Education (Elementary), Educational assessment, School management and organization, Total quality management in education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Cultural pluralism
Description: Mildred Wright recounts her career as an educator and administrator working with open plan schools in North Carolina, particularly her experiences helping to open, teach at, and manage Irwin Avenue Open School, the second functioning open plan sch...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 2, 2006 February 22
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Child development, School management and organization, Educational tests and measurements, Educational assessment, Magnet schools, Educational leadership, De facto school segregation
Description: In this last of three interviews with Mildred Wright, Ms. Wright discusses her career in education, particularly her role as principal at Coulwood Middle School and Thomasboro School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Wright explains how the approa...

Title: Shawn Chang oral history interview, June 17, 2003
Creator: Chang, Shawn Cheng
Date Created: 2003-06-17
Subjects--Topical: Agriculture, Land use, Rural, Farm life, Refugees, Hmong (Asian people), Hmong (Asian people)--Social life and customs, Hmong (Asian people)--Cultural assimilation, Hmong (Asian people)--Religion, Human rights advocacy, Traditional medicine, Environmental protection
Description: Shawn Cheng Chang discusses his relationship with the land in Catawba County, North Carolina as an immigrant from Thailand and Laos and his interest in advocating for the legal protection of Hmong people. He talks about his volunteer work, includi...

Title: Sherrill Coutourier oral history interview, 2005 October 19
Creator: Coutourier, Sherrill, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-10-19
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers, Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Parent-teacher relationships, Education--Parent participation
Description: Sherrill Coutourier discusses her experiences as a teacher in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' open schools program from the 1970s to the 1990s. Topics discussed includes the benefits of open education for both students and teachers, parental i...

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