OH. 8051 FATHER THOMAS F. WHELAN
(1906-
Last of eleven
generations of Marylanders.
People he
knew growing up in Baltimore and at Princeton University;
training for the priesthood
in Europe before World War 11; World War II
experiences; position
as first rector of Cathedral of Mary Our Queen and
later Catholic Charity
head. Mentions Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Arch-
bishop Francis Keough,
Episcopal Bishop Noble Powell, and James Car-
dinal Spellman.
Interviewer.-
Randy Beehler 1974
81 pp. 2 hours, 30"
OH. 8052 JOHN J. KING,
JR. (1887-
Prominent
Baltimore physician; consultant in internal medicine and
cardiology beginning in
1919; chief physician at the Baltimore City
Hospitals, 1939-46; chief
of medical service, Walter Reed Hospital, 1942-
45; author of medical
books and articles on cardiology and metabolism.
Family background;
Baltimor6 medical schools; comparison between
father's practice and
his own; service during World War II; origin of the
stethoscope; Bromo-Seltzer;
Bufferin; electrocardiography; metabolism
studies; gerontological
research; Maryland drug-user treatment law. Men-
tions H. L. Mencken, Gen. John
Pershing, Field Marshall Sir John Dill,
and United States presidents
and Maryland governors.
Interviewer: Barry
Lanman 1973-74
343 pp. 16 hours
Supplementary material:
biographical cartoon by R. Yardley; citation
from American College of Surgeons;
pictures of King.
OH. 8053 EAST-WEST EXPRESSWAY
COLLECTION
Project done in
Spring 1974 by Millie Rahn, student at University of
Maryland, Baltimore County,
on the hioway plans developed for Balti-
more and citizen response. Interviews
with people speaking for and against
the 3-A system, popularly known
as the East-West Expressway. See
individual entries for persons
interviewed: Richard Birkmeyer, Lindley
Butler, William Boucher, John
Gleason, Barbara Mikulski, Carolyn Tyson,
David Wagner, and Robert Zazzek.
74 pp.
Supplementary material:
chronology; illustrative material; newspaper
clippings; correspondence; brochures;
statements before Baltimore City
Council on June 21, 1973 by
Albert D. Hutzler, Jr.; and Owen Daly report
to the governor from Baltimore
Chamber of Commerce, 1970. Partly
restricted.
OH. 8054 WILLIAM BOUCHER (fl.
1958-74)
East-West Expressway
Collection
Executive director
of the Greater Baltimore Committee.
Economic value to
Baltimore of planned road systems and the opposition
of M(ovement) A(gainst) D(estruction),
an anti-road group.
Interviewer.- Millie
Rahn 1974
31 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8055 DAVID WAGNER (fl. 1974)
East-West Expressway
Collection
Transportation planner
for the Maryland Department of Transporta-
tion.
Former position
as liaison between state highway people and Urban
Design Concept Team; attendance
at local hearings; the 3-A system (East-
West Expressway); social and
economic impact of roads; his philosophy of
road planning.
Interviewer.- Millie
Rahn 1974
4 pp. 1 hour, 20"
Partly restricted
OH. 8056 CAROLYN TYSON (fl. 1974)
East-West Expressway
Collection
President of M(ovement)
A(gainst) D(estruction).
MAD opposition to
Leakin Park Expresway; the suit filed in 1972;
political aspects of road contracts;
the Franklin-Mulberry corridor; Rose-
mont community; interstate division
for Baltimore City of the State
Highway Department.
Interviewer: Millie
Rahn 1974
5 pp. 1 hour, 40"
OH. 8057 BARBARA MIKULSKI
(1937-
East-West
Expressway Collection
Baltimore
City Councilwoman.
Community
opposition to highway plans; Rosemont community; Fells
Point; the principle established
of talking to those to be affected by the
highway.
Interviewer:
Millie Rahn 1974
2 pp. 20 minutes
OH. 8058 DR. ROBERT ZAZZEK
(fl. 1974)
East-West
Expressway Collection
Chairman
of the chemistry department at Loyola College.
Canton
Improvement Association; his own study of noise and air
pollution; lawsuits against
road plans; citizen organization to fight City
Hall.
Interviewer:
Millie Rahn 1974
3 pp. 1 hour, 10"
OH. 8059 RICHARD BIRKMEYER
(fl. 1958-74)
East-West
Expressway Collection
Department
head at the Western Electric Company.
Road
planning in Fort Holabird and Broening Highway areas.
Interviewer:
Millie Rahn 1974
2 pp. 30 minutes
OH. 8060 JOHN C. GLEASON
(fl. 1974)
East-West
Expressway Collection
President
of the Society for the Preservation of Fells Point, Montgomery
Street and Federal Hill.
Fells
Point history and preservation; Urban Design Concept Team;
Southeast Council Against
the Road; M(ovement) A(gainst) D(estruction);
the 3-A system (East-West
Expressway); the South East Community
Organization; transportation
priorities.
Interviewer:
Millie Rahn 1974
4 pp. 1 hour, 15"
OH. 8061 LINDLEY BUTLER
(fl. 1958-74)
East-West
Expressway Collection
First
secretary of M(ovement) A(gainst) D(estruction).
Early
days of MAD; Esther Red; Relocation Action Movement; the
Urban Design Concept Team.
Interviewer:
Millie Rahn 1974
1 P. 20 minutes
OH. 8062 LAWRENCE W. SAGLE
(1892-1975)
First
curator of the Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum, after
a career as draftsman
at the Baltimore and Ohio's Mount Clare shops;
public relations representative,
1936-61; author of books and articles on
railroading and model
railroads.
Detailed
account of the origin of the collection in the Baltimore and
Ohio museum; the arrangement and renovation
of the museum in 1953;
film-making of restored locomotives.
Interviewer: Roger
B. White 1974
49 pp. 1 hour, 55"
OH. 8063 KALEVI OLKIO (fl. 1974)
Coordinator and
historian, All Nations Foundation, Inc.; emigrated
from Finland in 1946.
Foreign trade business;
need for better personal services and contact
with foreign ships using the harbor;
Norwegian institutions in Baltimore;
promotion of ethnic aspects of Baltimore-cultural,
social, sightseeing,
and museums. Donated by the Johns
Hopkins University.
Interviewer: Marvin
Trott 1974
31 pp. 1 hour, 30"
Supplementary material:
copies of All Nations Foundation, Inc. (1974)
and Nordkap News (1972-73) newsletters.
OH. 8064 ALICE WALDHAUSER (fl. 1940-76)
Came to Baltimore
in 1946 from England as bride of American soldier.
Her experiences
as an English war-bride; comparisons between life in
England and the United States. Tape
and transcript donated by the Johns
Hopkins University.
Interviewer: John
Simon 1974
46 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8065 HILDEGARDE (MRS. JOHN) CLANCY
(1921- )
Came to Baltimore
as wife of American soldier from Germany in 1946.
Her life in Germany;
opinion of Hitler; comparisons between Germany
and the United States. Tape and transcript
donated by the Johns Hopkins
University.
Interviewer.- Wendy
Brick 1974
33 pp. 2 hours
OH.8066 CLEMENT J.FRUCHA (1920-
Member of the Baltimore
Czech community.
Window screen paintings;
Kennedy election of 1960; Bohemian Dem-
ocratic Club; Sokol; Augustine Herrman
Society of Saint Wenceslas
Church; lists of many Czech professional
and business men. Tape and
transcript donated by the Johns Hopkins
University.
Interviewer.- Nancy
J. Frame 1974
26 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8067 HOWARD E. SIMPSON (1896-
Last president of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; employee of Central
of New Jersey Railroad; member of
the United States Navy, Great Lakes
area during World War 1.
Daniel Willard;
President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Baltimore and Ohio
luxury trains during the Depression;
the merger with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, reasons, and the fight
of fifty-one percent stock ownership;
Walter J. Tuohy; problems of the railroads
since 1953; decline in passenger
service; hearings before
the Interstate Commerce Commission; special
equipment for presidential
cars; railroad business cars; the philosophy of
good passenger service.
Interviewers:
Roger White, David Hankey, John Hankey 1975
61 pp. 3 hours, 30"
OH. 8068 JOHN MATRICIANNI
(1885- )
Immigrant
from Sicily to Baltimore in 1907.
First
experiences in Baltimore street and construction work. Donated by
the Johns Hopkins University.
Interviewer:
Deborah Batchelor 1973
12 pp. 1 hour, 30"
OH. 8069 GEN. JAMES P.
S. DEVEREUX (1903- )
General
in the United States Marine Corps; commander on Wake
Island, World War 11;
member of Congress for Baltimore County, 1951-
58; candidate for Maryland
governor.
His
career as a Marine, particularly World War 11 and Japanese
prisoner-of-war experiences.
Transcript
of interview conducted for the Marine Corps' Oral History
Program, Washington, D.C.
Interviewers:
Benis M. Frank 1970
212 pp.
OH. 8070 WILLIAM BOSE MARYE
(1886-1979)
Genealogist
for the Colonial Dames of America, Chapter One; corre-
sponding secretary of
the Maryland Historical Society, 1939-69; and
writer on Maryland Indian
history.
Family
background and boyhood in the joppatown area and at 714 St.
Paul Street in Baltimore;
Jessie Lee Bennett's salon; Maryland families;
many of his contemporaries.
OH. 8077 revises, corrects and expands upon
this.
Interviewer:
Virginia Pitcher 1971
13 pp. 4 hours
OH. 8071 LENORA NAST (1923-
Discussion
of her doctoral dissertation, "The Role of the Clergy in
Jewish-Christian Relations
in Baltimore from 1945 to 1975" (Ph.D., St.
Mary's Seminary and University
of Theology, Baltimore) and the inter-
view tapes she made while
writing it, which she has given to the Maryland
Historical Society.
Interviewer:
Betty McK. Key 1975
3 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8072 JOHN 1. BARNES
(fl. 1918-75)
Comptroller,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1946-61.
Railroad
finances; the Chandler Act; the McLaughlin Act; 1955 refi-
nancing; equipment trusts;
Daniel Willard; early days in Lonaconing and
Cumberland (Maryland); John
J. Ekin; Walter Price; the Queen City
Hotel, Cumberland.
Interviewer: Roger
White 1975
27 pp. 1 hour, 20"
OH. 8073 WARFIELD FIROR (1896-
Johns Hopkins Hospital
physician; University Hospital physician; sec-
retary of the American Surgical
Society, 1943-49.
Johns Hopkins Medical
School during World War 11; implications of
atomic bomb; the Flexner report;
Red Cross Blood Donor program; new
drugs; comparisons of Baltimore
before and after the fire of 1904 and
earlier and present medical
education.
Interviewer.- Randy
Beehler 1974
5 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8074 J. MILLARD TAWES (1894-1979)
Governor of Maryland,
1958-66.
Maryland Constitutional
Convention; desegregation on Route 40; racial
strife in Cambridge (Maryland);
Dr. Harry Byrd; many state and national
political contemporaries; environmental
legislation.
Interviewer: Walter
Finch 1974
66 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8075 GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE
(1877-1974)
United States Senator
from Maryland, 1935-47; president of the Mary-
land Historical Society, 1939-65.
Political figures
he knew well, particularly Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Roosevelt's definition of a
"good politician"; desegregation period in
Maryland; Cambridge, Maryland.
Interviewer: Walter
Finch and Donna Shanklin 1974 54 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8076 ARTHUR J. PAYNE (1893-
McKeldin-Jackson
Project
Minister, Enon Baptist
Church 1924-74. Served as chaplain at the 1952
Republican Presidential Convention
and seconded Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey's nomination.
Jackson family film
shows; National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People and church
relationships; Lillie May Jackson's charac-
ter; Carl Murphy's role in civil
rights activities; Juanita Jackson's role;
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin.
Interviewer: Reginald
Hildebrand 1976
1 1 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8077 WILLIAM BOSE MARYE (1886-1979)
Revisions, corrections
and additions for the first series of interviews,
OH. 8070.
Interviewer: Betty
McK.Key 1975
1 hour
OH. 8078 WILLIAM C. BAKER (1891-
Vice-president in
charge of operations of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad of Baltimore, 1949-61.
Railroad
career (beginning in 1906) in Baltimore, Western Maryland,
Ohio,
and Chicago; diesel engines replacing steam; servicing steam en-
gines;
trainmaster duties; "Fair of the Iron Horse," the 1927 celebration
of the
one hundredth anniversary of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Interviewer.-
Roger White 1975
16 pp. 30 minutes
OH. 8079
JAMES B. MARTIN (1901-81)
Retired
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad manager of the dining car and
commissary
department, 1957-66.
E. V.
Baugh; Marshall Field; the company publicity train in 19351-
traveling
with President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War 11;
Winston
Churchill as a passenger; the Roosevelt family; Charles Schwab;
J. Pierpont
Morgan; serving Naval Academy students on football trips;
five
prominent people who first worked as dining car waiters and stewards;
discrimination;
the policy of superior meals for low prices; changes during
the
Depression; causes for decline of railroad passenger service; the "sev-
enteen-mile
grade"; serving West Point Cadets on Presidential Inaugura-
tion
Day.
Interviewer:
Carroll R. Bennett 1975
55 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8080
GRACE HARTIGAN (1928-
Maryland
Artists Series
Painter
and artist-in-residence at the Maryland Institute Graduate
School
of Painting.
Living
in New York in the 1940s and 1950s; abstract expressionism;
painting
styles; Jackson Pollock; Wilhelm De Kooning; Baltimore as a
home
for the professional artist.
Interviewer:
Paula Rome 1975
53 pp. 2 hours
Supplementary
material: newspaper and magazine articles; catalogue
of Hartigan
New York exhibition, March 1975.
On deposit
at the Maryland Arts Council are four half-inch EIAJ
Standards
half-hour black and white video tapes-unedited originals
made
during the interview.
OH. 8081
ADELYN DOHME BREESKIN (1896-
Maryland
Artists Series
Director,
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947-62.
Print
collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Vienna Biennale,
1960;
Mary Cassatt; museum development; the National Gallery of Fine
Arts;
the Gallery of Modern Art in Washington.
Interviewer:
Paula Rome 1975
44 pp. 1 hour, 50"
OH. 8082
WILLIAM BOSE MARYE (1886-1979)
Genealogist,
writer on Maryland archaeology and Indian artifacts.
The Bryn Mawr
dig; findings on the Gunpowder River; origin of pieces
in the collection of the Maryland
Historical Society.
Interviewer:
Carroll R. Bennett 1975
1 hour
For an edited
version of this interview, see Betty McKeever Key, ed.,
"William B. Marye's 'Dig' at
Bryn Mawr," Maryland Historl'Cal Magazi'ne 75
(March 1980): 72-81.
OH. 8083 JOHN BUTLER (1897-1978)
United States
Senator from Maryland, 1951-63.
Early life
and education; his proposed Constitutional amendments; his
1950 senatorial campaign.
Interviewer:
Randy Beehler 1975
7 pp. 1 hour, 45"
OH. 8084 SIRKKA TUOMI (1920-
Daughter of
immigrant Finns. Active in politics with the Socialist Party,
Progressive Finns, and cooperatives.
The ethnic
theatre; McCarran immigration Act; Sen. Joseph McCarthy
era; House Un-American Activities
Committee; the New Era Bookstore;
the Finnish community in Baltimore,
pre-World War I and post-World
War 11. Interview donated by
Towson State University.
Interviewer:
Matti M. Paavola 1975
56 pp. 1 hour, 45"
OH. 8085 ANDREW RICHARD SZULINSKI
(1953- )
Son of Polish
immigrants. Radio personality under stage name "Stasiu
Dombrowski. "
Consistent
use of Polish in his family; reaction to "Polish jokes," both
personally and professionally;
experiences on his all-night program for
radio station WFBR; ethnic variety
of his listeners; Catholic parents'
experience in World War 11 concentration
camps in Poland and as
immigrants to the United States;
current political conditions in Poland.
Interviewer:
Robert 0. Grover 1975
14 pp. 30 minutes
OH. 8086 ANNA CATHERINE DROZD
YARMALOW (1900-
Member of
the Fells Point Polish community.
Cannery work;
the Depression and Prohibition periods. Tape and
transcript donated by Towson
State University.
Interviewer:
George A. Frank 1973
29 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8087 PAULINE PREVAS (1929-
Daughter of
Greek immigrants.
Educational
experience (through college); ethnic communal living;
formation of the third Greek
community in Baltimore; Greek customs,
music, and resistance to assimilation.
Tape and transcript donated by
Towson State University.
Interviewer:
Steven Angelos 1975
35 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8088 GARY ELLSWORTH
(1946-
Mormon missionary.
Mormonism
in the Baltimore-Washington area. Tape and transcript
donated by Towson State
University. Group interview: also includes Dave
Shurtz and Cheryl Pearce.
Interviewer:
Glenn Heckathon 1973
26 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8089 THERESA RYNCEWICZ
(fl. 1974)
Daughter of
Polish immigrants to Baltimore.
Family experiences
and lifestyle of a Polish immigrant family in Balti-
more. Tape and transcript
donated by the Johns Hopkins University.
Interviewer.-
Alexandra Peeler 1974
22 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8090 DAN PETERS (fl.1937-73)
Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad dining car employee, 1937-73.
Working on
special trains for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin,
Walter P. Marshall, president of Western Union,
and Col. R. B. White;
travels since retirement; obtaining supplies during
World War I for soldiers
and prisoners-of-war; reunions of Baltimore and
Ohio cooks and waiters.
Interviewer:
David and John Hankey 1975
30 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8091 POLISH RADIO PROGRAMS
IN BALTIMORE
Four hosts
of Polish music programs in Baltimore discuss the goals of
the programs and play
samples of the music: Milton Brozoski (Station
WBJC-FM), Bill Hnat (WKTK-FM),
Barb Miejon (WBMD-AM), Mike
Lozosky (WISZ-AM and -FM).
Donated by Towson State University.
Interviewer.
Bob Luh 1973
1 p. 1 hour
OH. 8092 SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
IN MONTGOMERY
COUNTY, MARYLAND
Summary of
documentary material on school controversies in Montgom-
ery County, 1970-72. Identification
of thirty-five interviewees; chronology
of the dispute, 1971-72;
bibliography of thirty-one newspaper articles;
school board and community
documents. Tapes, transcripts, and biblio-
graphical material available
only at the George Washington University
Library, Washington, D.C.
and the Montgomery County Library in
Rockville, Maryland.
1973-74
35 oral history interviews, 28 open, most transcribed
OH. 8093 JAMES VINCENT
KOZLIK (1883- )
President
of the Slovan Building and Loan Association.
The
Slovan Building and Loan Association; the Czech community in
Baltimore; working for an Eastern
Shore cannery before World War 1.
Donated by Towson State University.
Intervi'ewer:
Phyllis Neuman 1977
25 pp. 1 hour, 40
'
OH. 8094 VIRGINIA JACKSON KIAH
(1 91 1 - ) and JUANITA
JACKSON MITCHELL (1913-
Daughters
of Lillie May Jackson.
Lillie May
Jackson's early years; history of family and parent's marriage;
father's life; recollections
from childhood; Lillie May Jackson's mas-
toidectomy and growth of religious
beliefs; educational backgrounds of
the two sisters; Buy-where-you-can-work
campaign; Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the civil rights efforts
in the 1930's; membership drives; museum
segregation; the Kiah Museum
in Savannah, Georgia; the Lillie Carroll
Jackson Museum, Baltimore.
Interviewer:
Charles Wagandt 1975
60 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8095 JUANITA JACKSON MITCHELL
(1913-
Daughter of
Lillie May Jackson.
Background
of the Jackson family; Dr. Lillie May Jackson and her
activities with the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People in Baltimore; desegregation
and civil rights battles; work with the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People; voter reg-
istration; the Supreme Court
decision of 1954.
Interviewer:
Charles Wagandt 1975
59 pp. 2 hours
OH. 8096 WILLIAM B. REELY (1896-
General manager
of the Savage Cotton Duck Mill.
Work in a
Laurel textile mill when eleven years old; wages, hours, and
cotton products made by the
mill; World War I supplies for the govern-
ment; change from water to electric
power; replacement of cotton by
synthetics for industrial uses.
Interviewer:
John Brennan 1975
2 pp. 30 minutes
OH. 8097 JUANITA JACKSON MITCHELL
(1913- ) and
VIRGINIA JACKSON KIAH (191 I-
McKeldin-Jackson Project
Daughters
of Lillie May Jackson.
Lillie May
Jackson's life; various civil rights campaigns; "Uncle Tom-
ism"; other black organizations;
non-violent stance; opposition to Black
Panthers; Scottsboro case; relationships
with their mother; Theodore R.
McKeldin as mayor and governor;
Freedom Rides; Baltimore as a "target
city" for the Congress of Racial
Equality; the role of Carl Murphy; the
Baltimore riots of 1968.
Interviewer:
Charles Wagandt 1976
27 pp. 1 hour
OH. 8098
JAMES MALLAHAN CAIN (1892-1977)
journalist
and author of crime novels, plays, and short stories.
His
experiences as a Hollywood screenwriter, 1931-48, and as managing
editor
of the New Yorker magazine in 1931; his later life (1950 on) in
Hyattsville,
Maryland. Recollections of H. L. Mencken, Harold Ross,
Walter
Lippman, George Anthell, and many other screenwriters, actors,
and
journalists.
Interviewer:
Margo Backas 1975
60 pp. 2 hours, 30"
OH. 8099
PEGGY EWING WAXTER (1904-
McKeldin-Jackson
Project
Community
worker and wife of Judge Thomas J. Waxter.
Gov.
Theodore R. McKeldin and trip with Governor and Mrs. Mc-
Keldin
to Liberia; his concern for civil rights; Lillie May Jackson and her
relationship
with Judge Waxter; the integration of neighborhoods.
Interviewer:
Ellen Paul 1976
14 pp. 1 hour, 10"
OH. 8100
LOUIS SHUB (1912-
McKeldin-Jackson
Project
Pianist,
active in the Baltimore civil rights movement.
Ober
Law fight; Ford's Theatre strike; segregation of park facilities;
personalities
and influences of Lillie May Jackson and Gov. Theodore R.
McKeldin.
Interviewed for training class for McKeldin-Jackson Project.
Interviewer:
Ellen Paul 1976
5 pp. 45 minutes
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