Claire, Nola, 1997 April 9

This collection houses transcripts of oral histories conducted with a wide variety of Arizonans between 1958 and 2004. Interviewees include prominent Arizona residents like Eddie Basha, Paolo Soleri, George H. N. Luhrs Jr., Robert J. Donohoe, Harry Rosenzweig, and members of the Phoenix 40; early Arizona residents like Elma Cawthorne, Roberta Flake Clayton, Ruth Ward Crichlow, and Elizabeth Oldaker; Arizona politicians like Evan Mecham, Paul Fannin, Eldon Rudd, Samuel Goddard, Jack Williams, and John Rhodes; Arizona State University professors, administrators, and founding deans like Loretta A. Bardewyck, Henry A. Bruinsma, Robert Herberger, William G. Payne, J. Russell Nelson, and John Schwada; mining town residents like Maximo Alonzo, Ysaac Garcia, and Mary Flores Martinez; feminists like Nola Claire, Dianne Post, and Olivia Free Woman; civil rights activists like Calvin C. Goode, Lincoln Ragsdale, and Travis Williams; witnesses to the 1917 Bisbee Deportation like John Vercellino, Herbert V. Yong, and Frank Ryley; Japanese-American interment camp survivor Merry Kazuyo Masunaga; and World War II nurses like Mary Atkinson, Eunice Phelps Carr, and Virginia Rose Jepson. Interviewers include Charles C. Colley, Jack L. August, Rebecca Drieling, Rita Magdaleno, Dean Smith, Gordon A. Sabine, and Ron McCoy.