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Rachael Myers WIS News Report with Guest Dr. Constance Myers on Women’s Suffrage - OH 42
Rachael Myers Lowe, Constance Myers, and Women's Suffrage
OH 042
This interview was a part of the WIS Special News Report on women’s suffrage in South Carolina. The anchor of this news report is Rachael Myers Lowe, and there are also clips of Dr. Constance Ashton Myers (1926-2012), a scholar who collected many interviews from South Carolina suffragists. In this interview, they discuss the ratification of the 19th amendment in South Carolina, suffragettes in South Carolina, the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association, the National Women’s Party, tactics for protest in South Carolina, opposition to the movement, and newspaper columns for suffragists. Dr. Myers also discusses Eulalie Salley (1883-1975) of Aiken, South Carolina, one of the most prominent South Carolina suffragists. Rachael Myers Lowe is the daughter of Constance Myers.
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Interview with Julia H. Post
Julia H. Post
OH 038
IN PROCESSING
Chairman of Physical Education Department at Winthrop College (1932-1962), Ms. Post discusses her early childhood, interest and work with various crafts and arts, including needlework, sewing, and flower arrangement, cooking favorites, creativity and her retirement.
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Interview with Caroline Mayo Roueche
Caroline Mayo Roueche
OH 035
IN PROCESSING
Ms. Roueche describes her experiences teaching in integrated schools, and experiences first as a high school student at the Winthrop Training School and then as a college student at Winthrop. Also discusses her grandmother and parents, her education, change of women’s roles, drugs, dating trends, and race relations.
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Interview with Alice Hayden Salo
Alice Hayden Salo
OH 037
Professor of Dance in the Physical Education Department at Winthrop (1937-1944 and 1948-1973), Ms. Salo describes her childhood and education in Florida, her interests, philosophy and creativity regarding modern dance and its development, her career teaching tennis, swimming and dance at Winthrop and her attendance at the Demonstration School.
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Interview with Frank Bryan Tutwiler - OH 26
Frank Bryan Tutwiler
OH 026
This interview is with Dr. Frank Bryan Tutwiler who was born in Virginia on October 6, 1924 and he passed away in York, South Carolina on April 20, 1979. Dr. Tutwiler was a faculty member in the Chemistry Department at Winthrop College from 1955-1979. In this interview, Dr. Tutwiler discusses how different sciences are viewed, the relation between science and religion, how sciences are used in the world, both good and bad and those in between, and what the different sciences are, including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and geology. He also talks about what science degree programs were offered at Winthrop while he taught there and how he attempted to create an astronomy program as well. Dr. Tutwiler also talks about stereotypes surrounding scientists and how these have affected which sciences are more popular and with whom they are more popular. He also discusses how the teaching of the sciences has changed and developed alongside the development of the sciences themselves.
*From 0:30:42 to 0:31:27 and again at 0:52:24 to 0:53:21, there is the start of a discussion about coeducation at Winthrop, but then it switches back to Dr. Tutwiler.
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Interview with Alice Spearman Wright
Alice Norwood Spearman Wright
OH 025
IN PROCESSING
In this interview Mrs. Wright discusses her upbringing, her education at Columbia College and the University of Chicago, her trips to the Philippines and Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, her activities in the civil rights movement, her work with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations and her ideas on women's rights.
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Interview with Marion Allan Wright and Alice Spearman Wright
Marion Allan Wright and Alice Norwood Spearman Wright
OH 024
This interview was conducted with Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) who was a civil rights advocate and served as a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Also interviewed was his wife Alice Buck Norwood Spearman Wright (1902-1989) who was a Civil Rights advocate and was an ardent supporter of racial equality and desegregation policies. She presided over the first integrated South Carolina Council on Human Relations. The interview with both Marion and Alice discusses their upbringing and influences and delve into the flowing topics: the Civil rights movement, interracial marriage, abolition of death penalty by Supreme Court, the ERA (commented on by Alice Wright also), and interest in education (Alice Wright).*
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Interview with Julia Mobley Irwin
Julia Mobley Irwin
OH 023
In her November 9, 1976 interview with Sally Tyler, Julia Mobley Irwin details her life as a day student in the early 1900s. Irwin recalls her favorite classes, describes uniforms, insists that there was never a swimming pool at Winthrop, and relates the traditions of graduation week. Irwin also shares Benjamin Tillman's message to students at her 1904 graduation ceremony. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Janie May Carroll Rice
Janie May Carroll Rice
OH 022
In her November 13, 1976 interview with Sara L. "Sally" Tyler, Janie May Carroll Rice expresses her love of Winthrop. Rice recalls President Johnson’s involvement with the students, and his desire to include religion in all aspects of campus life. Rice also defends the many rules and regulations of Winthrop. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with James Russell Wilson Sr. and Alan Whiteside
James Russell Wilson Sr. and Alan Whiteside
OH 084
This is a collection of interviews done in a series by students as an oral history project. Some of the interviews were used for the Bicentennial edition of the Lancaster News, April 9, 1976.
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Interview with Marion Allan Wright
Marion Allan Wright
OH 020
This interview was conducted with Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) who was a civil rights advocate and served as a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. South Carolina native, Marion Wright discusses his recollections and experiences growing up in Conway,SC, African Americans in Conway, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, influences on his life including August Kohn and Josiah Morse, his law practice in Conway, his student days at the University of South Carolina, Jesse Daniel Ames, Dorothy Tilly, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and its successor the Southern Regional Council, Judge J. Waties Waring of Charleston, and Mrs. Wright’s experiences. This interview focuses on a discussion about Senator Ben Tillman, Senator “Cotton” Ed Smith, and Governor Cole Blease.
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Interview with an Unidentified Clemson Student - OH 18
Clemson Student
OH 018
This collection contains a brief interview from a Clemson graduate (who requested anonymity) regarding his experience visiting Winthrop College in the 1930s. He describes entering in the dining hall as a group with the Winthrop students already seated, pranks the girls would play on them, socializing between Winthrop and Clemson students, and the social expectation that South Carolina girls would attend Winthrop and South Carolina country boys would attend Clemson.
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Interview with Arnetta Gladden Mackey - OH 17
Arnetta Gladden Mackey
OH 017
This collection includes an interview with Arnetta Gladden Mackey (1948-2009) who, along with Delores Johnson Hurt, was one of the first two undergraduate students admitted to Winthrop in 1964. She graduated from Winthrop in 1967. Mrs. Mackey discusses her childhood and family, her feelings about attending college, receiving her scholarship to Winthrop, and her feelings about attending an all-white school. She also describes her experience living in the dorm, Rat Week, her social life, her experience with her white peers, and her experience with academics. Mrs. Mackey discusses her experience with the lack of Black churches in the area, the white church she initially attended (Oakland Baptist), and the Black church (Mt. Prospect Baptist Church) she attended once Oakland Baptist refused to let her in for worship. Mrs. Mackey also discusses the reaction she received from students, faculty, and members of the Rock Hill community, as well as her life and family after her graduation.
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Interview with Mary Denny Matthews
Mary Denny Matthews
OH 016
In her April 21, 1975 interview with Ann Yarborough Evans, Mary Denny Matthews shares her experiences as a student from 1915-1919 and her career at Winthrop from 1920-1942. Matthews lends stories of student life and how WWI shaped Winthrop. Matthews also explains why she decided not to teach and instead have a career at Winthrop. Matthews concludes her interview with details on the strike at Winthrop for equal pay for women. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Walter Schrader - OH 256
Walter Herman Schrader, Coeducation, and Winthrop University
OH 256
This interview was conducted with Walter Herman Schrader (1912-2005) who was the first male to be awarded a degree by Winthrop in 1969. Winthrop’s charter stipulated that only females could receive a degree from Winthrop, so although men have attended classes (mostly evening and summer classes) since as early as 1898, men would have to transfer to other institutions to receive a degree. Winthrop had been making efforts to move towards coeducation when Walter Schrader sued to get his degree and helped expedite the process of Winthrop becoming a fully coeducational institution in 1974. In this interview, Walter discusses his background and his early academic career. He spends most of the interview discussing the process he took to receive his degree from Winthrop and the reception he received as a result. He offers his opinion on Winthrop and what he envisions for the future of the college.
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Interview with Sally Todd Bethea
Sally Todd Bethea
OH 015
Sally Todd Bethea’s 1974 interview with Freida C. Todd focuses on life at Winthrop in the late 1930s and includes why Ms. Bethea attended Winthrop, teacher training, dorm life, uniforms, gym, the dining hall, assemblies, clubs, campus restrictions, entertainment, classes, Winthrop Training School, bible class, orientation, Shelton Phelps, the Depression, the college farm and ice cream, and Saturday night dances. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Rosa Elmore Bootle
Rosa Elmore Bootle
OH 007
In her July 3, 1974 interview with Ann Yarborough Evans, Rosa Bootle remembers her time as a Winthrop student and the various traditions she partook in. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Robert Bristow - OH 002
Robert O'Neil Bristow
OH 002
Robert O’Neil Bristow (1926-2018) was an accomplished writer, author, and professor of journalism at Winthrop College from 1962-1987. In this interview, Bristow discusses writing his first story while he was in the Navy, his experience in World War II, inspiration for one of his protagonists, his parents, the effect of childhood trauma on his novels, his issues with authority, his work on a newspaper, his experience as an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma, publishing his early pieces in magazines, his first novel, his development as a writer, inspirational works and authors (such as Nelson Algren, Robert Penn Warren, John Steinbeck), and his writing process and style. Bristow also discusses his novel, Night Season, which was published in 1970. In reference to this novel, Bristow discusses his experience with preaching at a Black church in Oklahoma around 1956-57, writing Black characters, moving to South Carolina in the 1960s, his perspective on reviews of his novels, his experience with conducting research for Night Season, and writing female characters. Bristow also discusses teaching at Winthrop, his earlier life in Oklahoma, as well as his use of intimacy and sexuality in his work. Bristow also discusses his novels Time for Glory and Laughter in Darkness.
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Interview with Nancy Hinson Cox
Nancy Hinson Cox
OH 006
In her July 16, 1974 interview with Ann Yarborough Evans, Nancy Cox recalls Winthrop customs from 1930-1934. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Anna Heriot Dixon
Anna Heriot Dixon
OH 008
Anna Dixon, in her July 1974 interview with Ann Yarborough Evans, described the lifestyle and traditions she experienced during her years as a student at what is now Winthrop University (then Winthrop Normal and Industrial College). Dixon graduated in 1917 and covered topics such as being campused, the train station, education for women, uniforms, curriculum, and the training school. She also touched on what might get a girl expelled and how the students were graded. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Leslye Fleniken
Leslye Fleniken
OH 013
In her August 13, 1974 interview with Ann Yarborough Evans, Leslye Fleniken recalls life at Winthrop from 1936-1940. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Gray Taylor Grady
Gray Taylor Grady
OH 012
In her August 22, 1974 with Freida Todd, Margaret Gray Grady recalls her time at Winthrop from 1935-1939. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Bessie Poag
Bessie Poag
OH 011
In her July 31, 1974 interview with Louise Pettus, Bessie Poag details her memories as a student at Winthrop Training School and Winthrop College. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Sarah Willette Padgett Satterwhite
Sarah Willette Padgett Satterwhite
OH 004
IN PROCESSING
Ms. Satterwhite received a B. A. degree in 1945 and discusses student life during the 1940s. Subjects discussed include dorm life, World War II, the AFROTC (Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp), rules and regulations, uniforms, fire drills, food, clubs, classes, cheating, recreation, the Blue Line, dating, President Phelps, Henry Sims, and the teacher training school.
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Interview with J. B. Stewart - OH 306
J. B. Stewart
OH 306
This interview focuses on Winthrop alumna Mrs. J. B. Stewart, class of 1933, and her time at Winthrop College. Mrs. J. B. Stewart attended Winthrop College from 1929-1933 and graduated magna cum lade. She was a French and English double major. In the interview, Mrs. Stewart discusses her classes and teachers at Winthrop College, dorm life and campus life, and what has changed on campus since she attended.