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Oral History Interview with Birdie Meyer, January 17, 2023

Description: Interview with Birdie Meyer, a registered nurse with a master's in counseling from Speedway, Indiana. Meyer discusses education, experience working as a nurse, learning about maternal mental health issues through Postpartum Support International and Depression After Delivery, working closely with PSI, Wade Bowen fundraising for the organization, training and programs, impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, inclusivity, and resources in the field of maternal mental health.
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This item is restricted from view until January 17, 2026.
Date: January 17, 2023
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Gunyon Meyer, Birdie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Divya Kumar, October 7, 2022

Description: Interview with Divya Kumar, an independent clinical social worker and psychotherapist from Boston, Massachusetts. Kumar discusses getting a certification in perinatal mental health from PSI, becoming a co-founder of the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color, Postpartum Progress, PSI trainings, issues, becoming an advisor, defining identity as a mother and as a person, and advocacy for diversity in leadership.
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Date: October 7, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Kumar, Divya
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Horace N. Robinson, February 11, 2023

Description: Interview with Horace N. Robinson, a resident of Durant, Oklahoma. Robinson discusses his upbringing, life in a small town, the appearance of polio, World War II, PTSD he had seen in veterans, Christianity, the development of pacifism, the Vietnam War, and reminders left behind.
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Date: February 11, 2023
Creator: Marshell, Nathaniel & Robinson, Horace N.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Noel Lisboa, February 14, 2023

Description: Interview with Noel Lisboa, a Filipino personal trainer from Plano, Texas. Lisboa discusses growing up in the Philippines, Catholic education there, Filipino cuisine, family traditions and holidays, experiences with a political uprising, immigrating to the United States, food, life, and holidays in the United States compared to the Philippines, gang activity in the U.S., the fitness industry, and his community.
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Date: February 14, 2023
Creator: OShea, May & Lisboa, Noel
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with David T. Vo, March 5, 2023

Description: Interview with David Vo, a resident of Calera, Oklahoma. Vo discusses his upbringing in Vietnam, his father's work as an officer in the South Vietnamese military, the Vietnam War, escaping on a boat and coming to the United States, getting his degree in automotive industrial technology at Cal State University, starting a family, and his perspective regarding his homeland.
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Date: March 5, 2023
Creator: Marshell, Nathaniel & Vo, David T.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023

Description: Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
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Date: February 14, 2023
Creator: Burns, Regina L. & Calhoun, Marilyn Gibson
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Susan Huston, November 2, 2020

Description: Interview with Susan Huston, a career freelancer from Dallas, Texas. Huston discusses her background, initial involvement in the Dallas fashion industry, life as a freelancer, starting her own company, writing a book, teaching, preparations for fashion shows, modeling, and how the fashion industry has changed over the decades.
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Date: November 2, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Huston, Susan
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Donald E. Francisco, April 14, 2022

Description: Interview with Donald E. Francisco, a University of North Texas graduate and a University of North Carolina emeritus professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Francisco discusses his background, education, his experience as a lab assistant at UNT, segregation and integration in Denton history, his involvement in the civil rights movement, working at a foundry, religion, teaching at and family.
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Date: April 14, 2022
Creator: Moye, Todd & Francisco, Donald E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Elisabeth Brolin, March 7, 2021

Description: Interview with Elisabeth Brolin discussing her early life in Switzerland, immigration to the DFW area, journey to becoming a United States citizen, her discovery of her faith and of God, her life as an immigrant in the United States, her social connections, and the concept of the American Dream.
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Date: March 7, 2021
Creator: Kvapilova, Katerina & Brolin, Elisabeth
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Larry Leathers, July 15, 2020

Description: Interview with Larry Leathers, former Visual Manager at Neiman Marcus from Dallas, Texas. Leathers describes his background in theater and dance, fascination with the "frozen theater" of display mannequins, entry into the fashion industry, promotion from display creator to manager of a department to manager of a whole store, stories about working with clients, family, change over time, and the importance of remembering the heart of the fashion industry.
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Date: July 15, 2020
Duration: 2 hours 22 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Leathers, Larry
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ruth Ann Johnston, July 29, 2020

Description: Interview with Ruth Ann Johnston, a former trimmer from El Paso, Texas. Johnston describes her background and journey to becoming involved in the Dallas fashion industry, education at Texas Tech and the University of North Texas, work as a trimmer in the display department in several stores, including Neiman Marcus, the "NM Way," the AIDS epidemic and its impact on the fashion industry, her shoe collection, and the importance of developing relationships in the industry.
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Date: July 29, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Johnston, Ruth Ann
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021

Description: Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
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Date: March 15, 2021
Creator: Bridges-Jacobsen, Lauren & Luong, Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Naomie Rudelson, July 13, 2020

Description: Interview with Naomi Rudelson, a former department store executive from New Orleans, Louisiana. Rudelson discusses involvement with the fashion industry in Dallas, starting with work as an assistant to a personal shopper and eventually becoming vice president of several different department stores. Rudelson also describes designing a curriculum for students at the University of North Texas, and the work environment at Dalton's department store, Sanger-Harris, Winkleman's in Detroit, and May Com… more
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Date: July 13, 2020
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Becker, Annette & Rudelson, Naomi
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Wendy Davis, October 7, 2022

Description: Interview with Wendy Davis, the executive director of Postpartum Support International from Portland, Oregon. Davis discusses her background in psychotherapy/psychology, becoming involved in the perinatal mental health field through her own experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, being helped by a doula, getting involved in maternal mental health groups, PSI and DAD, and the growth and development of PSI over time.
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This item is restricted from view until October 7, 2025.
Date: October 7, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Davis, Wendy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Carol Blocker, October 14, 2022

Description: Interview with Carol Blocker, an activist from Chicago, Illinois. Blocker discusses postpartum activism, her experience with her daughter Melanie, the difference between postpartum psychosis and postpartum depression, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Act, and the lack of detailed information available about postpartum mental illnesses.
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This item is restricted from view until October 14, 2025.
Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Blocker, Carol
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Carol Dix, March 29, 2021

Description: Interview with Carol Dix, an author from London, England. Dix describes her pregnancy and giving birth experiences, Postpartum Depression, the writing she produced, her surgeries, crime, life in London, and her children.
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Date: March 29, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Dix, Carol
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ann Dunnewold, April 21, 2021

Description: Interview with Ann Dunnewold, a psychologist from Oberlin, Ohio. Dunnewold discusses her education, struggling with postpartum depression, Postpartum Support International, psychotherapy, self-care, writing the Postpartum Survival Guide, and her practice in Dallas.
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This item is restricted from view until April 21, 2025.
Date: April 21, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Dunnewold, Ann
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Oral History Interview with Barry M. Lewis, April 13, 2021

Description: Interview with Barry M. Lewis, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois. Lewis discusses his background in law, education, the COVID-19 Pandemic, his involvement with postpartum cases, postpartum psychoses, the DSM, and literature and treatment related to postpartum mental illnesses.
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Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Lewis, Barry M.
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Oral History Interview with Adrienne Griffen, August 12, 2022

Description: Interview with Adrienne Griffen, the Executive Director of the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance from Arlington, Virginia. Griffen discusses her family, time as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, education, her own experience with postpartum depression, becoming an advocate, Postpartum Support International, other leaders and organizations in her field, postpartum psychosis, statistics, and treatments.
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Date: August 12, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Griffen, Adrienne
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Susan Feingold, April 14, 2021

Description: Interview with Dr. Susan Benjamin Feingold, a clinical psychologist from Chicago, Illinois. Feingold discusses her education, the early gender gap in her area of study, her own pregnancy, postpartum depression, starting a practice related to perinatal psychology, and the experiences she had speaking on behalf of women with postpartum psychosis.
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Date: April 14, 2021
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Feingold, Susan
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Oral History Interview with Susan Dowd Stone, September 23, 2022

Description: Interview with Susan Dowd Stone, a clinician, advocator, writer, family pillar, and educator at NYU from Englewood, New Jersey. Stone discusses working in business, transitioning to social work, the joint meeting between Depression After Delivery and Postpartum Support International, becoming PSI president, the Mothers Act, the DSM, and postpartum depression.
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This item is restricted from view until September 23, 2027.
Date: September 23, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Stone, Susan Dowd
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Oral History Interview with Margaret Spinelli, January 24, 2020

Description: Interview with Margaret Spinelli, an author and psychiatrist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Spinelli discusses her background in nursing, founding the women's mental heath program at Columbia, her research on antepartum and postpartum depression and psychotherapy, her experience with neonaticide cases, and her book.
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Date: January 24, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Spinelli, Margaret
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Oral History Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, February 10, 2020

Description: Interview with Paula Doress-Worters, founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective (1969) and author of the postpartum chapters in the booklet, Women and their Bodies (1969), and the book Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970). She discusses her own postpartum illness and hospitalization in 1966, and her experience with the Boston Women’s Collective and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
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Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Doress-Worters, Paula B. (Paula Brown)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jeanne Watson Driscoll, January 30, 2023

Description: Interview with Jeanne Watson Driscoll, a clinical nurse scientist from Boston, Massachusetts. Driscoll discusses her experience with obsessive thought disorder during her pregnancies, Carol Dix's book about postpartum depression, helping women with breastfeeding, becoming active in postpartum support organizations, PSI, the NURSE plan, DAD, and speaking on maternal mental health.
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Date: January 30, 2023
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Driscoll, Jeanne Watson
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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