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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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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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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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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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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.