Interview with Donald Gallion, August 6, 2008

Donald Gallion was interviewed on August 6, 2008 by Michael Birkner about his time serving in the United States army during WWII and his return to Gettysburg College and after the war. Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16274coll

Interview with Robert Wrigley

Robert Wrigley is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (2013), which won him the Pacific Northwest Book Award. During his visit to Butler, Wrigley sat down to talk with Manuscripts staff member Matt Del Busto about his most recent collection, titled after Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, written almost 400 years prior. They discussed the power of poetry and melancholy in our lives. In 2016, Wrigley retired from a forty-year teaching career and currently lives in Idaho “in the woods on the side of a mountain” with his wife

Interview with Arthur Bruce Boenau, June 9, 2005

Arthur Bruce Boenau was interviewed on June 9, 2005 by Michael Birkner about his life and time as a professor of Political Science at Gettysburg College. He discusses his childhood, his experiences during World War II and the Korean War in the Counterintelligence Corps, and finally his memories of the faculty, administrators, and students at Gettysburg. Length of Interview: 94 minutes Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16274coll

Oral History Interview with Leong Kwong Sin: Conceptualising SMU

This is an abridged version of the original interview. Please contact the Library at [email protected] for access to the full version of the transcript and/or audio recording.</p

Had the New President, So I Said, OK, Erving, I Am Sending Over a Reporter

This interview with Russell Dynes, professor emeritus at the Universityof Delaware, was recorded over the phone on February 4, 2009. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Dynes edited the transcript and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”

May 1961

Dear Brother: You were probably busy at 9:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday morning when the television set brought a beautiful choir concert from the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Cross at Boston, Massachusetts. The high point of the program undoubtedly was the Bach setting of Christ lag in Todesbanden. It was sung with precision, spirit, understanding and pro found reverence. Suddenly I remembered that about ten years ago I had written somewhere: Confronted by Bach the twentieth century man must be bewildered. The gap between the Rhapsody in Blue and the Mass in B Minor is too great. But even more tragic is the amazement of the modern mind when it is confronted by Bach, the man of faith

Interview with Carey A. Moore, December 30, 2003

Carey A. Moore was interviewed on December 30, 2003 by Michael Birkner about his experiences after leaving Gettysburg College and moving on ultimately toward a Ph.D and then a teaching career. Length of Interview: 94 minutes Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16274coll

Interview with Keisuke Masuda

Community life in Kakaako between 1915 and 1952 is recalled by an active member of the Kakaako Community Association. Also included is a detailed description of work in the area's tuna cannery.service station attendant; Japanese; maleInterview conducted in English.Stat