Scope and Contents Alumni SAGE Society Legacy Oral History Project Barbara Ferrara, in 2010 the Associate Director of the Center for State Policy and Leadership at UIS, reminisces about her career at the University. A 35 year employee of SSU/UIS, Ferrara discusses her experiences as a researcher and project manager within the University’s public affairs division. She recalls a number of projects in which the University conducted research and program evaluation on behalf of Illinois state agencies and her...

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Feuer, president of General Automotive, discusses growing up in Springfield during the Depression and the effects on the family, business and on local coal miners. He recalls his education, his family history as immigrants from Poland, and his service in the air force during WWII. Feuer also discusses his Jewish background, attending synagogue, and recalls family stories and radio programs.

2 tapes, 80 mins., 23 pp. Interview by Byron Booth, 1988 OPEN See collateral file

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Fisher, long-time resident of Springfield, discusses his education in grade schools and the Springfield High School class of 1944. He recalls his teachers and classmates, and Springfield in the 1940's. References are made to Vachel Lindsay and the Broadwell family.

2 tapes, 233 mins., 53 pp. Interview by Thomas L. Nolan, 1986 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents PRISONER OF WAR EXPERIENCES IN WORLD WAR II Fitzgerald discusses his experiences serving in the army during WWII, taking part in the landing at Anzio, Italy, capture by the Germans, internment at Stalag VIIA and Stalag IIB, conditions and treatment as a POW, escape and reunion with American forces. He recalls the work he performed on a cooperative farm while in the German prison camps, Christmas 1944, and discusses the long term effects of his POW experience. 1 tape, 90 mins.,...

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TELEPHONE PROJECT Fitzgerald, employee of Illinois Bell Telephone Company, discusses his experiences working for Illinois Bell. He recalls a fire at the company offices in 1927, effects of the Depression and WWII, customer billing procedures, changes in technology, and a 1947 strike. Also mentions Springfield transportation developments.

1 tape, 70 mins, 23 pp Interview by Thomas Easley, 1973 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents FitzJerrell recounts growing up on a farm in the late 1800's, her family life and background, Civil War experiences of her father, marriage to a doctor and life as a doctor's wife, her husband's medical practice and psychiatry work, raising her children, family vacations, and a lengthy illness she endured in the 1920's. She discusses some of the problems associated with her advancing age and living in a nursing home. A reference is made to FitzJerrell's father hearing Abraham Lincoln speak....

Scope and Contents Fitzpatrick, Springfield resident and businessman, recalls his neighborhood, lumber business, sponsorship of numerous athletic teams, effects of the Depression, involvement with the publication The Citizens Tribune, local political campaigns, violence during the mine wars, service on the Illinois Boxing Commission and Golden Gloves, and sponsorship of semi-professional softball including the Fitzpatrick Lumberjacks. He recalls a softball game played between the Lumberjacks and Joe Louis's...

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ILLINOIS COAL: THE LEGACY OF AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY Flesher, resident of Taylorville during the mine wars, recalls the violence between the Progressive Miners Union and the United Mine Workers, arrival of the FBI, arrests of miners, arrival of the National Guard, company towns, and conditions for miners during the strike.

16 pp. Interview by Carl Oblinger, 1985 RESTRICTED: no legal release See collateral file

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Mrs. Forbes discusses her life in a Quaker family and recalls work at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois and its development from 1949 to 1986. She also discusses WWII as the wife of a conscientious objector, her work during the war at a mental hospital, living in England, and her recollections of Ecuador. Also mentions Adlai Stevenson, the Depression, and Japanese internment camps.

104 pp. Interview by Chester Rhodes, 1986 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents Foreman, teacher and former Mayor of Jacksonville, Illinois, discusses her early life in Jacksonville: family, her father's teaching career with the deaf, friends and neighbors, neighborhoods and parks, early education and Routt High School, homemade foods, home life, summer vacations in Michigan, and streetcars and automobiles. She discusses attending Illinois College, classmates there, WWI homefront, discrimination against Catholics and blacks, and Jacksonville businesses. 15...