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Anne Batten discusses growing up in the Dilworth community in Charlotte, North Carolina, her career as a teacher, and the role she played in historic preservation in Meck[...]
1993-07-26 | Audio | Professional Women |
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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 gr[...]
1993-06-28 | Audio | Professional Women |
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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 Car[...]
1993-07-19 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of fifteen. Topics disc[...]
1996-01-20 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Thereasea Elder recounts her life and career as a public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before going into public health, Mrs. Elder was a nurse at Good Samari[...]
1993-06-25 | Audio | Professional Women |
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In this last of three interviews, former newspaper columnist and food editor for the Charlotte Observer Eudora Garrison recounts her memories of growing up in the Provide[...]
1993-06-30 | Audio | Professional Women |
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In this first of three interviews, former columnist and food editor Eudora Garrison discusses her career in the newspaper business at the Charlotte News and the Charlotte[...]
1993-06-09 | Audio | Professional Women |
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In this second of three interviews, former newspaper columnist Eudora Garrison talks about her career as a food editor for the Charlotte Observer during the 1960s and 197[...]
1993-06-30 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Elisabeth "Liz" Hair, the first woman to be elected to the Mecklenburg County Commission, recounts her life and involvement in Charlotte-Mecklenburg's government and Demo[...]
1993-06-25 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Sara Wyche Higgins discusses her almost forty years as a piano teacher in Mint Hill and Charlotte, North Carolina. After moving to Mint Hill in the late 1940s, Mrs. Higgi[...]
1993-06-07 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Beatrice Hogan discusses her career as a nurse working in the military and in medical facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina, including St. Peter's Hospital and Charlott[...]
1993-06-11 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Gladys Lavitan recounts her life and her sixty-three year acting career in Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes growing up in Charlotte during the Depression, the cit[...]
1993-07-01 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Marianne Lieberman recounts her childhood in German-occupied Austria as the daughter of a Jewish father and Catholic mother. She describes how her loss of identity under [...]
1993-06-29 | Audio | Professional Women |
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In this interview, Dr. Jonnie McLeod discusses her forty-year long career as a physician and as a central figure in Charlotte's medical community. She discusses the role [...]
1993-07-06 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Elizabeth S. Newitt shares her memories of working with a number of healthcare organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina, including Charlotte Memorial Hospital, the Canc[...]
1993-06-08 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Gay Porter recounts her life as a ballet dancer, instructor, and dance advocate in Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses her early dancing in Europe, how she came to l[...]
1993-06-02 | Audio | Professional Women |
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In this second interview with Jennifer Greeson for the Levine Museum, Elizabeth Randolph continues to discuss the importance of education to her family and within the Afr[...]
1993-07-13 | Audio | Professional Women |
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In this first interview with Jennifer Greeson for the Levine Museum, Elizabeth Randolph describes growing up during the 1920s and 1930s in a family that emphasized educat[...]
1993-06-16 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Community organizer and activist Louise Sellers recounts growing up in eastern North Carolina while spending summers in Charlotte, North Carolina, the history of her fami[...]
1993-07-20 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Sister Mary Jerome Spradley recalls her memories of nursing school and her nursing career in Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses attending high school and entering a[...]
1993-06-28 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Lois Moore Yandle recounts her memories of growing up in the Highland Park Manufacturing Company No. 3 Mill community during the early twentieth century, located in the N[...]
1996-01-20 | Audio | Professional Women |
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Jennifer Greeson interviewed seventeen professional women from the Charlotte region in 1993 as part of an internship with the Museum of the New South (now the Levine Museum of the New South). The project was funded by the Benjamin N. Duke Leadership Program of Duke University, the Duke Power Company Foundation, and the Museum of the New South. Interviewees were chosen to represent the arts, education, politics, journalism, and health care. The interviewees represent a diverse selection of local professional women who speak in detail of their lives, their careers, and their particular contributions to the local community.