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Interview Information
Interviewee
Kathy Marcel
Series
University History
Subseries
Distinguished Faculty & Administrators
Series Information
Description
Interviews with faculty, staff, and alumni conducted by Williams Center staff, LSU Recording Services, volunteers, and graduate students, focusing on the history of Louisiana State University. Various topics are covered and since interviews are often life narratives, multiple topics arise, including major historic events outside of the scope of LSU history, including, for example, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, Governor Huey Long, military history, and civil rights.
Size
322 interviews on 681 recordings
Time Period Covered
1908 - present
Date
1970s - present
Principal Interviewers
Jennifer Abraham; Everett Besch, Melisse Campbell, Susie Crews, Pamela Dean, Jack Fiser, Mary Hebert, Sally Kuzenski
Finding Aids
Abstracts, indexes
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
37% of interviews are cataloged (120 of 322)
Interview Information
Interviewee
Kathy/Kathryn
Series
Baton Rouge's LGBTQ Community: Then and Now
Series Information
Description
Conducted by students in Elaine Maccio's class, Social Work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, these interviews focus on the LGBTQ community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from the 1950s to the 2000s. Interviewees describe what it was like to identify as gay at a time when negative stereotypes were pervasive, and discuss the changes they've witnessed as LGBTQ causes have become more mainstream. Interviewees share personal experiences of marriages and relationships, coming out, and recount their involvement and activism in the LGBTQ and Baton Rouge communities whether social, political, religious, or related to HIV/AIDS causes.
Size
6 interviews on 6 recordings
Time Period Covered
1950s - 2009
Date
2009
Principal Interviewers
Elaine Maccio, Whitney Craig, Melanie Russo, Brandy George, Hope McPhatter, LeBrian Patrick
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Interview Information
Interviewee
Katie O'Neal
Series
Our Lady of the Lake, "Under Pressure: A Louisiana Hospital's COVID-19 Experience"
Series Information
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped daily life, placing immense strain on healthcare workers, families and communities. At Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, administrators, physicians, nurses, researchers and frontline staff faced profound uncertainty—adapting in real time while continuing to care for patients and support one another. To ensure these experiences are preserved for future generations, Our Lady of the Lake partnered with LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and LSU Libraries to create Under Pressure: A Louisiana Hospital’s COVID-19 Experience–an oral history project documenting the challenges, innovations and resilience of those on the front lines. Doctors, nurses, and administrators on staff at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital and LSU researchers discuss a variety of topics, including day-to-day operations in a rapidly changing environment, difficulty communicating information to the public, patient care and treatment amid changing protocols, risks to healthcare workers, rewarding experiences interacting with patients’ family members who were subject to visitation restrictions, equipment shortages, fear and uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic, coping with, misinformation regarding vaccines, and working with an Army disaster medical assistance team.
Size
13 interviews on 13 recordings
Time Period Covered
2020-2022
Date
2024
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
92% of interviews are catalogued (12 of 13)
Interview Information
Interviewee
Katie O'Neal, Nicole Telhiard, Wendy Gaudet, Chris Thomas, and Lesley Tilley
Series
Our Lady of the Lake, "Under Pressure: A Louisiana Hospital's COVID-19 Experience"
Series Information
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped daily life, placing immense strain on healthcare workers, families and communities. At Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, administrators, physicians, nurses, researchers and frontline staff faced profound uncertainty—adapting in real time while continuing to care for patients and support one another. To ensure these experiences are preserved for future generations, Our Lady of the Lake partnered with LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and LSU Libraries to create Under Pressure: A Louisiana Hospital’s COVID-19 Experience–an oral history project documenting the challenges, innovations and resilience of those on the front lines. Doctors, nurses, and administrators on staff at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital and LSU researchers discuss a variety of topics, including day-to-day operations in a rapidly changing environment, difficulty communicating information to the public, patient care and treatment amid changing protocols, risks to healthcare workers, rewarding experiences interacting with patients’ family members who were subject to visitation restrictions, equipment shortages, fear and uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic, coping with, misinformation regarding vaccines, and working with an Army disaster medical assistance team.
Size
13 interviews on 13 recordings
Time Period Covered
2020-2022
Date
2024
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
92% of interviews are catalogued (12 of 13)
Interview Information
Interviewee
Kay Long, Marsha Budz & Terry Fluke
Series
Various Topics
Series Information
Description
These primarily biographical and regional history interviews were conducted by LSU faculty and students, by Williams Center staff under contract for interviewees' families, or were donated to the Williams Center. In addition to family history and genealogy, topics covered include: the Association for Women Historians, Lansdowne Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, the New Llano Cooperative Colony near Leesville, Louisiana, Williams Plantation, architecture, landscape architecture, hurricanes, Mardi Gras celebrations, Louisiana fisheries, the sugarcane industry, Native American and African American artists, New Orleans history and music, and topics of international interest such as the Mexican Revolution and Nazi propaganda films.
Size
96 interviews on 157 recordings
Date
1970s - present
Principal Interviewers
Pamela Dean, David Culbert, Helen Peterson, Kathleen Kearns, Susan Tittlebaum, Shelly Wells, Tayari Kwa Salaam, Harriet Walker, Ruth Laney, Mary Hebert Price, Jennifer Abraham
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
4% of interviews are cataloged (4 of 96)

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