OH. 8002 WILLIAM B. FOULKE (1888-1972)
         Lifelong resident of Patapsco Neck area, the site of the Battle of North
       Point, September 12, 1814.
         Residents of Patapsco Neck; the monuments; the Shaw House, where
       General Ross was supposed to have spent his last night before the Battle
       of North Point; Patapsco Neck as a former truck farm area; Foulke, Shaw,
       Fitzgerald, Stansbury, and Todd families.
         Interviewer: Lois McCauley 1970                      60 pp. 1 hour, 30'

     OH. 8003  MRS. ALBERT D. HUTZLER SR. (Gretchen Hochschild,
     1898-1977)
        Member of Hochschild, Hamburger, and Hutzler department store
     families.
        Baltimore charities and cultural life.
        Interviewer: Betty Speas      1971                              23 pp.    1 hour

     OH. 8004  LESTER S. LEVY (1896
        Baltimore businessman; collector of American music related to Ameri-
     can history; author; owner of "Star-Spangled Banner" first edition; pres-
     ident and board member of various Baltimore cultural and philanthropic
     organizations.
        Early life and family ownership of M. S. Levy and Sons, straw hat
     manufacturers; anecdotes relating to his sheet music collection; Baltimore
     friends who are song writers.
        Interviewer.- Francis Colletta    1972                    41 pp.    1 hour, 30"

     OH. 8005 DR. REGINALD V. TRUITT (1890- )
        Professor of zoology and agriculture at the University of Maryland
     beginning in 1918; originator of Chesapeake Bay Research Laboratory at
     Solomons Island, 1931-54; director of the State Commission of Education
     and Research, 1932-54; member of the Maryland Board of Natural
     Resources, 1942-54.
        Beginning of conservation efforts in Maryland and resistance from
     politicians and watermen.
        Interviewer: Georgia Earle 1971                                 16 pp.    1 hour

     OH. 8006 DR. MILDRED OTENASEK (1914-
        Member of the National Democratic Committee, 1956-73; president,
     United Democratic Women's Clubs of Maryland, 1955-57; instructor at
     Trinity College, Washington, D.C., 1940-54 and Notre Dame College in
     Baltimore, 1956 to the present.
        Eleanor Roosevelt; President John F. Kennedy and his family; women
     in politics; the vote for eighteen year olds.
        Interviewer: Betty Speas      1972                              38 pp.    1 hour

     OH. 8007 HOWARD R. THATCHER (1878-1973)
        Professor, Peabody Institute of Music; organist, Mt. Vernon Place
     Methodist Church and Temple Oheb Shalom; composer.
        Peabody faculty members; Henry L. Mencken.
        Interviewer.- Virginia S. Pitcher   1971                       25 pp.    1 hour

     OH. 8008 JOSEPHINE (MRS. ERIC) JACOBSEN (1908- )
        Maryland poet and consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress,
     1971-73; author of six books of poetry including The Shade Seller (New
     York: Doubleday and Co., 1974).
         Duties as poetry consultant; why people write poetry; women as poets.
      Includes reading of her poems, "The Artist in Space," "The Old Man and
      the Sea," and "The Planet."
         Interviewer: Virginia S. Pitcher 1972                    47 pp. 2 hours

      OH. 8009 DR. PHOEBE STANTON (1914-
         Professor of art, Johns Hopkins University; member of Advisory Design
      Panel for Housing and Community Development of Baltimore City and
      Governor's Consulting Committee for Historic Preservation for the State
      of Maryland.
         Past, present and future of Baltimore and comparisons with other cities;
      the Charles Center; rationale for city planning; public art in the twentieth
      century.
         Interviewer.- Paula Rome 1971                         45 pp. 1 hour, 30"
         Supplementary material: correspondence concerning the interview; Dr.
      Stephen M. Cohen, "The Playground Builder," Johns Hopkins Magazine
      (October 1970): 11-17; 1970 annual report, Baltimore Department of
      Housing and Community Development.

      OH. 8010 WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH, SR. (1886-1976)
         President, Schneidereith and Sons, a quality Baltimore printing firm
      founded in 1849.
         Troops in Baltimore during the Civil War; the Baltimore Fire of 1904;
      Ottmar Mergenthaler and Linotype press; United Typothetae of America;
      offset printing; government work during World War 11.
         Interviewer: P. W. Filby 1970                             33 pp. 3 hours
 

      OH. 8011 DR. RICHARD D. MUDD (1901- )
         Grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd who was implicated in the assassination
      of President Abraham Lincoln.
         The Mudd family; his own motivation for working to clear his grand-
      father's name; attempts for Congressional pardon for Dr. Samuel Mudd;
      expanded material on a hearing in Key West, Florida for Doctor Mudd's
      release from prison there.
         Interviewer: Betty McK. Key 1972                           26 pp. 1 hour

      OH. 8012 DR. MILTON S. EISENHOWER (1899- )
         President of the Johns Hopkins University, October 1956 to June 1967
      and April 1971 to February 1972.
         His years at Johns Hopkins University; financial problems and fund-
      raising; growth of various schools, particularly the Applied Physics Labo-
      ratory, Advanced International Studies, and Hygiene and Public Health;
      Vietnam War; student unrest; educational institutions and defense re-
      search; his philosophy of education.
         Interviewer: Virginia Pitcher   1972                   45 pp.   1 hour, 30"

     OH. 8013 CHARLES E. SCARLETT (1908-79)
       Grandson of George Francis Patterson who founded Patterson, Ramsay
     and Company in 1880, forerunner of the present Rainsay-Scarlett and
     Company; president of the Steamship Trade Association, 1951-52; and
     the National Association of Stevedores.
       Family and business history; restoration of Whitehall Mansion in An-
     napolis; the book he was writing on Edgar Allan Poe.
       Interviewer: Ann Perkins 1971                            44 pp. 2 hours

     OH. 8014 GEN. JAMES P. S. DEVEREUX (1903- )
       Career United States Marine; Congressman from Maryland, Second
     District, 1951-58.
       His early life, family, education and first days in the Marine Corps;
     capture of Wake Island by the Japanese at outset of World War 11 and
     experience as a Japanese prisoner-of-war; pre-war Marine duty in Legation
     Guard, Peking, China; resumption of his Marine duties from September
     1945 to August 1948; his campaigns and service as a four-term Congress-
     man; particular details about his official travel; unsuccessful run for
     governor in 1958; duties as Baltimore County Director of Public Safety
     under County Executive Spiro Agnew and characterization of Vice-Pres-
     ident Agnew; activities since retirement, particularly horse-breeding.
       Interviewer: George Shriver 1971-73                      17 pp. 5 hours

     OH. 8015 HERBERT FRISBY (1896-
       Educator, Baltimore City public school system and Coppin State Col-
     lege; second black to go to the North Pole, in 1956; chairman of the
     Matthew A. Henson memorial projects; retired teacher of high school
     biology.
       Childhood and education; Arctic trips; development of Matthew A.
     Henson memorial projects.
       Intervz'ewer: Dorothy Brown 1971                        123 pp. 5 hours

     OH. 8016 HANS FROELICHER,JR. (1891-1976)
       Headmaster at the Park School, 1932-56; president of the Citizens
     Planning and Housing Association, 1944-56.
       Campaign in Maryland for President Woodrow Wilson; the Woodrow
     Wilson League; the beginnings of the Park School; his tenure there,
     including the desegregation period; the Progressive Education Association;
     work with the Citizens Planning and Housing Association; controversy
     over the location of the state office complex in Mount Royal Plaza.
     Includes many names associated with Park School and the Citizens
     Planning and Housing Association.
       Interviewer: Robert D. Jones   1971                     100 pp. 5 hours
        Partly open                                    cript, "History of Park
        Supplementary material: unpublished manus i             I
      School," by Hans Froelicher, Sr., President of Board of Trustees from its
      founding in 1912 until 1929; two newspaper articles by Froelicher; corre-
      spondence concerning the interview; Froelicher obituary articles.

      OH. 8017 HELENE HEDIAN (fl. 1919-71)
        Instructor, Maryland Art Institute's design department, 1919-56.
        Outstanding teachers at the Maryland Institute; little theatre groups in
      Baltimore; Hans Schuler; Henry Dreyfuss; Adele Nathan; Alice Dennis;
      Baltimore and Ohio Railroad "Fair of the Iron Horse" in 1927; stage
      lighting; fashion design; her philosophy of art education.
        Interviewer: Virginia Pitcher 1971                      4 pp. 2 hours

      OH. 8018 AUGUSTA HENNIGHAUSEN (Mrs. Frederick H., 1896-
        Native Baltimorean.
        Baltimore and Prince George's Counties, 1900-14; Baltimore fire of
      1904; food delivery systems; street vendors; Glendale, Maryland; the
      Howard Sills family; summers visiting in the country; travel on the
      Chesapeake Bay.
        Interviewer-Donor: T. M. Coakley 1972                     2 pp. 1 hour

      OH. 8019 DR. LEO KANNER (1900-
        Professor of child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University, 1939-58;
      author of several books of child psychiatry and In Defense of Mothers (New
      York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941).
        Early infantile autism and former and present treatments.
        Interviewer: Ruth Hoffman 1971                             1 p. 1 hour

      OH.8020 MRS.JOHN B .RAMSAY (1904-
      McKeldin-Jackson Project
        Civic leader and member of the Human Relations Commission, 1951-
      73; president of the Baltimore League of Women Voters, 1947-51; and
      candidate for Congress, 1962.
        Transcription of nineteen pages of interview passages on civil rights
      activity in Baltimore, 1935-70. Also information on Ford and Lyric
      theatres; desegregation; restaurant discrimination; the Urban League;
      Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin's appointments.
        Interviewer.- Mrs. William Cunningham 1971          19 pp. 1 hour, 30"
 

      OH. 8021 GRACE TURNBULL (1880-1976)
        Sculptor, artist, and writer.
        Her early life and schooling; the Turnbull family; Sidney Lanier;
      Lizette Woodworth Reese; alcohol as a dangerous drug; her Red Cross
     work in World War 1; writings; early career as a painter and her change
     to sculpture; Teilhard de Chardin; Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.
        Interviewer: Virginia Pitcher 1971                          66 pp. 2 hours
        Supplementary material: newspaper articles concerning exhibits at Ca-
     tonsville Community College, 1972; brochures of exhibit at Baltimore
     junior College, 1966; Turnbull letter to the Baltimore Sun editor, 1971;
     obituary article and editorial.

     OH. 8022 DR. WALTER BAETJER (1883-1972)
        Leading Maryland general internist; chief physician at the Union
     Memorial Hospital for many years.
        Family, early life, and education; origin of the Greater Baltimore
     Medical Center; service with Hopkins Base Hospital Unit Eighteen in
     World War 1; foreign study; medicine before the use of antibiotics; use of
     modern diagnostic aids; personal philosophy.
        Interviewer.- Mary Bristow  1971                           65 pp. 4 hours

     OH. 8023 DOUGLAS HUNTLY GORDON (1902- )
        Lawyer, civic leader, and president of the Mount Vernon Improvement
     Association.
        His theories on historic preservation: "The Gordon Curve" and "Sci-
     entific Obstructionism"; the Mount Vernon Improvement Association;
     the Gordon family; historic preservation in Baltimore.
        Interviewer: Virginia Pitcher   1971                    38 pp.    1 hour, 30"

     OH.8024 CLARENCE V.JOERNDT (1898-1976)
        Historian of St. Ignatius Church, in Hickory, Maryland.
        His life and research in Maryland church history.
        Interviewer: Mary Bristow    1972                            21 pp.    1 hour

     OH. 8025 JUDGE SIMON SOBELOFF (1894-1973)
        First Jew on the Maryland Court of Appeals; chief 'udge of the United
     States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1958-64; solicitor general of the
     United States, 1954; leader in Jewish organizations on the local and
     national level, and also in many legal associations; chairman of Commis-
     sion of State Administrative Re-organization, 1953.
        Changes in criminal 'ustice; desegregation; school busing; housing
     discrimination.
        Interviewer: D. Cunningham 1971                         30 pp. 1 hour, 40"

     OH. 8026 DR. THOMAS G. PULLEN (1898-1979)
        State superintendent of schools, 1942-64; president of the University of
     Baltimore, 1964-69.
        Family, ancestors, friends and teachers at William and Mary College;
      World War I Marine Corps experiences; lists changes in Maryland school
      system during his tenure and explains several at length.
        Interviewer: Dr. Nelson Blake 1971              106 pp. 6 hours, 30"
        Supplementary material: expanded personal data; Thomas G. Pullen,
      "Why the Proposed Maryland Constitution was not Approved," William
      and Mary Law Review 10 (Winter 1968): 378-392.

      OH.8027 EDWIN CASTAGNA (1909- )
        Director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1960-74.
        Personal background; war experiences; purpose of a library; media
      hardware and the book; Pratt Library programs and position as a state
      library source center; the Henry L. Mencken Collection; pornography; the
      future of the book.
        Interviewer: Diana Digges 1973                     42 pp. 1 hour, 30"

      OH. 8028 LOUIS CHESLOCK (1899-
        Composer and music instructor at the Peabody Institute, 1917-73.
        Henry L. Mencken; personal stamp and medallion collections; music in
      Baltimore; 'azz and entertainment music; electronic music.
        Interviewer.- Diana Digges 1973                        50 pp. 2 hours

      OH. 8029 JAMES CALLANAN (1922-
        An officer in the Garibaldi Federal Savings and Loan Company.
        Ethnic businesses in Baltimore.
        Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1972                       4 pp. 15 minutes

      OH. 8029 CHARLES DEMARCO (1895-1972)
        Officer of and one of the founders of the Garibaldi Federal Savings and
      Loan Company.
        History of this credit organization founded to help the Italian commu-
      nity.
        Interviewer: Barry Lanman t972                      11 pp. 20 minutes

      OH. 8029 JOHN A. SERIO (1921-
        Executive vice-president of the Garibaldi Federal Savings and Loan
      Company.
        Origin and current operation of this credit organization founded to
      assist the Italian community.
        Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1972                      11 pp. 25 minutes

      OH. 8030 PAUL FENCHAK (fl. 1960-73)
        Teacher and secondary school coordinator for the Association for the
      Study of the Nationalities (Russia and Eastern Europe), Inc.
        Recommends resource material for research in Russian and Eastern
     European groups and discusses efforts to improve level of education
     concerning same.
       Interviewer: Betty McK. Key 1973                                    1 hour

     OH. 8031 RICHARD OKTAVEC (1927-79)
       Painter of Baltimore window screens.
       His father, William A. Oktavec, Sr., Baltimore's best-known window-
     screen painter; store location; other goods sold; prices, styles and subjects
     of screens; renewal of demand for them in 1960s; the destruction of the
     shop during the Baltimore riots of 1968.
       Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1972                        25 pp. 1 hour, 30"

     OH. 8032 ANNE PERKINS (fl. 1972)
       Interviewer for the Maryland Historical Society and alternate delegate
     to the Democratic National Convention, 1972.
       Baltimore politics.
       Interviewer: Betty McK. Key 1973                                    1 hour

     OH. 8033 THEODORE R. MCKELDIN (1900-74)
       Governor of Maryland, 1951-59; mayor of Baltimore, 1943-47, 1963-
     67.
       Family and early life, education, and first jobs; compares Republican
     and Democratic parties in Maryland, governorship and mayoralty, and
     his early and later campaigns; characterizes Mayor William Broening,
     President Dwight Eisenhower, President Lyndon Johnson, and Judge
     Simon Sobeloff; emphasizes his respect for all people and religions.
       Interviewer: Charles Wagandt     1971-73            157 pp. 4 hours, 30"

     OH. 8034 DR. HARRY MURDOCK (fl. 1945-73)
       Psychiatrist.
       Auburn House on the grounds of the Sheppard Pratt Hospital and his
     almost twenty years of residency there; the Symington and Turnbull
     families as previous owners.
       Interviewer-Donor: Barry Lanman 1973                        2 pp. 1 hour

     OH. 8035 GEORGE RAPP (1906- )
       Head silversmith for the Stieff Company and native Baltimorean.
       Childhood in St. Denis, now Arbutus; first employment at Schultz
     Silver Company and Scofield Company for eighteen years; radar equip-
     ment work for Stieff during World War 11; mechanization of silversmith
     processes; manufacture of Williamsburg reproduction silver; working at
     the Smithsonian Institution Craft Fair in Washington, D.C.
       Interviewer: Barry Lanman 1972                         2 pp. 50 minutes

      OH. 8036 THEROCIOUS GRAY (1928-
         Baltimore "street arab" or huckster.
         Street vending in the 1930s; watermelon cries; the Harlem Square
      neighborhood; decorating horses on vending wagons. Tape includes prayer
      by Albert L. Paige and short statements by hucksters Willie Jones and
      Eddie Toatley.
         Interviewer: John McGrain 1972                     10 pp. 22 minutes

      OH. 8037 ALICE BOWERMAN (fl. 1920-70)
         Interview for a project on American regional English. Maryland accents
      and agricultural vocabulary in the early twentieth century. Donated by
      Mrs. Bowerman. 1968                                             20 minutes

      OH. 8038 ROY BLALOCK (ca. 1910-
         Resident of Dundalk, Maryland. Mrs. Blalock also speaks.
         Logan Air Field, Turner Station, Avondale in the Dundalk area; work
      as a crane operator in an aluminum plant in North Carolina, 1916-17;
      explosion of the ship Alum Chine; women's suffrage.
         Interviewer: Ben Worrier 1971                                     1 hour

      OH. 8039 JOSEPH HEIM (1903-
         Farmer in the North Point Road area.
         Early nineteenth century Methodist meeting house at North Point
      which was torn down in 1920; the graveyard there; Mergler mine laying;
      Fort Howard in 1910.
         Interviewer-donor: Ben Worrier 1971                          30 minutes

      OH. 8040 MARGARET E. LINDEMAN (fl. 1920-50)
         Office worker for forty-nine years for Bethlehem Steel Company. Her
      two sisters also speak.
         History of Sparrows Point and the steel company.
         Interviewer-donor: Ben Worrier 1972                               1 hour

     OH. 8041 GEN. CHARLES E. MASSON (1898-
         The early history of the Maryland National Guard Air Wing formed at
      Logan Field, Dundalk, Maryland in the 1920s; the Ninth Tactical Com-
      mand during World War 11; first parachute jumps at Logan Air Field;
      first air-to-ground messages; explosion of the Graf Zeppelin. Mentions Eddie
      Rickenbacker, Billy Mitchell, Gen. James Doolittle, and Temple Joyce.
         Interviewer-donor: Ben Worrier 1972                           1 hour, 25"

      OH. 8042 WILLIAM WARD (fl. 1940-72)
         Retired steelworker.
         Early days at Sparrows Point, Maryland; the Bethlehem Steel Company
      and Company store; first radios; washing machines; movies.
         Interviewer-donor: Ben Worrier 1972                                1 hour

     OH. 8043 GEORGE S. WHITE (1891-
        Retired steelworker.
        Crew that set the world riveting record in 1918 at the Bethlehem
     Shipbuilding Corporation; early days at Turners Station, Maryland.
        Interviewer-donor: Ben Womer 1972                               25 minutes

     OH. 8044 WALTER SONDHEIM, JR. (1908-
        Vice-chairman, Charles Center-Inner Harbor Management, Inc., 1970;
     senior vice-president and treasurer of the Hochschild, Kohn and Company.
        His family and early life; the Park School; the period of desegregation
     during his tenure as president of the school board; general comments on
     education.
        Interviewer: Francis Colletta 1971                         16 pp.   1 hour

     OH. 8045 HENRY L. MENCKEN (1880-1956)
        Two long-playing records made by the Library of Congress in 1948 (33
     1/3 rpm, Number PL 18-PL 19).
        Childhood in Baltimore; association with the Baltimore Herald Sunpapers,
     Smart Set, American Mercury, and his column in the Baltimore Sun; compares
     the newspaper business in the 1920s and 1940s; religion; free speech; the
     Dempsey-Carter fight;     his years as drama critic; writing The American
     Language; pleasure in music; his opinions of television and politics.
        Interviewer: D. H. Kirkley, Sr.  1948                                  5 pp.

     OH. 8046 LUBOV KEEFER (1896-
        Music and Russian language instructor at the Johns Hopkins University.
     Author of Baltimore's Music (Baltimore, 1962) and Music Angels (Baltimore,
     1976).
        Early life in Russia; teaching at Catonsville High School and the
     Peabody Institute; her philosophy of teaching; Baltimore as a music
     center; the Baltimore Chamber Music Society; the Baltimore Symphony;
     Asgar Hamerick; Reginald Stewart; local chamber music groups; women
     as art patrons.
        Interviewer: Diana Digges 1973                         47 pp. 1 hour, 15"

     OH. 8047 MILDRED KEMP MOMBERGER (1912-
        McKeldin-Jackson Project
        Personal secretary and administrative assistant to Gov. Theodore R.
     McKeldin, 1937-74.
        Character and personality assessment of McKeldin; Mayor William
     Broening's influences; McKeldin's political campaigns; religious phase of
     his life; personal traits; Eisenhower nomination; her meetings with Presi-
     dents Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson; gubernatorial appointments
     by McKeldin; his close associates; his two books.
        Interviewer: Charles L. Wagandt 1974                        37 pp.    1 hour

      OH. 8048 ALFRED ANDERSON (1899-
        Merchant sailor and ship's cook.
        Experiences on trips to Galveston, Texas; Wales; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
      the Bahamas; S.S. John Madison. (Poor sound.)
        Interviewer-donor: W. Woods 1973                          1 p. 30 minutes

      OH. 8049 GEORGE BEALL (1937-
        United States Attorney for Maryland, 1970-75.
        Growing up in Frostburg, Maryland and his early school years; clerking
      for Judge Simon Sobeloff; controversy between former United States
      Attorney Steven Sachs and Attorney General John Mitchell; interesting
      cases; Arthur Bremer's attack on Gov. George Wallace; plea bargaining;
      narcotics networks; securities frauds; political kickbacks.
        Interviewer. Randy Beehler 1974                        5 pp. 2 hours, 30"

      OH. 8050 THOMAS B. D'ALESANDRO, JR. (1903- )
        Mayor of Baltimore, 1947-59; Democratic member of Congress for the
      Third District of Maryland, 1938-47.
        Childhood and education in Baltimore; service in the Maryland House
      of Delegates, 1926-33, and as congressman and mayor; political figures on
      the local and national levels; Democratic party in Baltimore; his accom-
      plishments while mayor.
        Interviewer: Francis Colletta   1973                       73 pp. 2 hours
        Supplementary material: newspaper clippings; city brochure on "Prog-
      ress in Baltimore, 1947-57." 

 

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