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Interview of Dale Gnidovec by Kevlin Haire
Gnidovec, Dale ( 2021 )Dale Gnidovec discusses his career as Collections Manager and Curator of the Orton Geological Museum. He was hired as a collections manager for the Orton Geological Museum in 1989, but his duties expanded rapidly to include ... -
Interview of Ann Marie Miller Whitlach by Debbie Cannon Freece
Whitlach, Ann Marie Miller ( 2021 )Ann Marie Miller Whitlach earned her undergraduate degree from Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, then moved to Columbus to earn a Master's degree at The Ohio State University. After teaching at Ohio Wesleyan University for ... -
Interview of Ako Kambon by Kevlin Haire
Kambon, Ako ( 2021 )Ako Kambon describes his time as a student at Ohio State from 1969-1973. He recalls his first impressions of campus when he was a freshman, particularly the scarcity of other African-American students and the lack of ... -
Interview of Jules B. LaPidus by Bob Buerki
LaPidus, Jules B. ( 2021 )Jules LaPidus describes his career at Ohio State, which spanned nearly three decades. After receiving his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of Illinois and master's and doctoral degrees in medicinal chemistry ... -
Interview of John Mount by Raimund Goerler
Mount, John Thomas ( 2021 )John Mount, former Dean of the University College and Vice President of the Regional Campuses, discusses his time at Ohio State, which began 1937 when he arrived on campus as a freshman. He earned a degree from the College ... -
Interview of Kevin Fitzsimons by Kevlin Haire
Fitzsimons, J. Kevin ( 2021 )Kevin Fitzsimons discusses his career as University photographer, covering all aspects of campus life for nearly four decades. Fitzsimons discusses working with various departments on events, covering football, working ... -
Interview of Pamela K. Kemmenoe by Kevlin Haire
Kemmenoe, Pamela K. ( 2021 )Pamela K. Kemmenoe, nee Pamela K. Stockberger, grew up on a family farm with an older brother and sister, and she was encouraged by her parents and her high school Home Economics teacher to attend college. Kemmenoe spent ... -
Interview of Carl F. Asseff by Linda Stone
Asseff, Carl F. ( 2021 )Dr. Carl F. Asseff received his bachelor's, medical, law, and master's-in-business degrees from Ohio State. In this interview he discusses his choice of ophthalmology as a specialization, his reasons for obtaining law and ... -
Interview of Lynwood L. Battle Jr. by Kevlin Haire
Battle, Lynwood L., Jr. ( 2021 )A Cincinnati native, Lynwood Battle attended Ohio State in the early 1960s, living in and serving as a resident advisor of Baker Hall. He also was president of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He discusses being the first ... -
Interview of Judith Kimchi-Woods by Diane Sheets
Kimchi-Woods, Judith ( 2020 )Born in Haifa, Israel, Judith Kimchi-Woods attended the University of Haifa and was trained as a nurse at Rambam Hospital. It was during her training there that the 1973 Yom Kippur War occurred, and she cites her experiences ... -
Interview of Angela S. Chesser by Debbie Cannon Freece
Chesser, Angela S. ( 2020 )In an interview conducted at the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University, Angela S. Chesser describes her graduate education at Ohio State and her nursing career. Chesser, who knew from a young age that she ... -
Interview of Tod F. Stuessy by Kevlin Haire
Stuessy, Tod F. ( 2020 )Tod Stuessy discusses his academic career, as well as his administrative roles, in what is now known as the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. He began his tenure at OSU in 1968 as an assistant professor, and because ... -
Interview of Bill Shkurti by Kevlin Haire
Shkurti, William J. ( 2020 )Born in 1946 in Akron, Ohio, Bill Shkurti was among the first wave of baby-boomer students to come to Ohio State. Shkurti majored in economics, but one of his roommates joked he was an "activities major," because he was ... -
Interview of Norman Burns by Robert Stevenson
Burns, Norman ( 2020 )In an interview conducted at the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University, Dr. Norman Burns discusses his dental education at Ohio State and his dental career afterward. Burns, who was born in Fostoria, Ohio, ... -
Interview of James N. Upton by Kevlin Haire
Upton, James N. ( 2020 )In an interview James Upton discusses his career at Ohio State, which spanned from 1980-2010. He talks about his research and teaching duties as an associate professor of African-American and African Studies, his role as ... -
Interview of Gerald H. Newsom by Kevlin Haire
Newsom, G. H. (Gerald H.) ( 2020 )Gerald Newsom discusses his academic career, as well as his administrative roles in both the Department of Astronomy and the College of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Newsom received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard ... -
Interview of Howard A. Werman by David Bahner
Werman, Howard A. ( 2020 )In an interview conducted at the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University, Dr. Howard Arthur Werman discusses his career as an emergency medicine physician and professor at the College of Medicine. While attending ... -
Interview of Wiley "Chip" Souba by Chris Ellison
Souba, Wiley W. ( 2020 )In an interview conducted at the Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State University, Dr. Wiley "Chip" Souba describes his varied career as a surgeon, researcher and administrator, including his four-term as Dean of the ... -
Interview of Amilcar Mtu by Jennifer Grabmeier
Mtu, Amilcar ( 2019 )Amilcar "Al" Mtu recalls the events leading to and on April 26, 1968, when students staged a sit-in at Bricker Hall, then known as the Administration Building. He first discusses the issues that African-American students ... -
Interview of Leyla Hawkins by Kevlin Haire
Hawkins, Leyla ( 2019 )Leyla Hawkins, who grew up in Toledo, discusses her time at OSU as both an undergraduate and graduate student, particularly her involvement in the then-Ohio and Drake Union Activities board. When she started school in the ...