Transcript of Oral History Interview with Guy and Bess Scruggs

Transcript of an oral history interview of Guy and Bess Scruggs conducted by Owen Glen Cosgrove on 21 August 1975. This interview was digitized from cassette format. The Scruggs family was working with Abilene Christian College during its expansion during the 1920s and through the time of the college\u27s dire financial struggles in the 1930s. Mr. Scruggs\u27 thesis on the history of Abilene Christian College is an extensive study of the college during those years. Scruggs and Morris also worked together for many years. Mrs. Scruggs\u27 father was S. N. Allen, for many years a member of the Board of Trustees at Abilene Christian College. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Allen donated a one-hundred-and-twelve-acre farm to Abilene Christian College in 1944 to help establish the college\u27s agriculture department

Oral History Interview with Delno Roberts

Oral history interview of Mrs. Delno Roberts conducted by Owen Glen Cosgrove on 22 October 1975. Mrs. Roberts was Don H. Morris\u27 personal secretary for twenty-one years

Oral History Interview with B. Sherrod

Oral history interview on cassette dated 23 October 1975. Owen Glen Cosgrove interviewed B. Sherrod, who was then retired from Abilene Christian College. B. Sherrod was a Trustee at Abilene Christian College during most of the administration of Don H. Morris. He and Morris worked together in securing some of the largest gifts in the history of the school

Oral History Interview with Dr. Robert Hunter

Oral history interview with Dr. Robert Hunter conducted by Owen Cosgrove on October 21, 1975. Dr. Hunter served on the development council at Abilene Christian College during the time that Dr. H. Morris served as the Chancellor for the school. They made numerous trips together in order to recruit prospective donors to the school. He discusses some of Dr. Morris\u27s civic activities with the other leaders of the two other schools in Abilene

Oral history interview with J. W. Treat

Oral history interview on cassette dated 29 August 1975. Owen Glen Cosgrove interviewed J. W. Treat, head of the Language Department at Abilene Christian College. Cosgrove chose to interview Treat because he roomed with President Don Morris while they were doing graduate work at the University of Texas and because they worked together at Abilene Christian College for thirty-five years

Oral history interview of Dr. Walter H. Adams

Oral history interview of Dr. Walter H. Adams conducted by Owen Glen Cosgrove in 1975. This interview was digitized from cassette format

Oral history interview with Lawrence L. Smith

Oral history interview with Lawrence L. Smith conducted by Owen Glen Cosgrove on 22 October 1975 in Smith\u27s office at Abilene Christian University. Cosgrove chose to interview Smith for his project because Smith was a bursar and business manager of Abilene Christian College during the administration of Don H. Morris

Oral History Interview with Don H. Morris

Oral history interview on cassette dated 19 July 1973. Owen Glen Cosgrove interviewed Don H. Morris, who was serving as Chancellor for Abilene Christian College. He speaks of the many Christian Colleges in Texas and in surrounding areas and of how these colleges came into being. He speaks of such colleges as: Add-Ran College, Thorp Spring Christian College, and Lockney Christian College to mention a few. He also relates several stories of some of the men who aided in founding these colleges

Oral history interview with Dr. John Stevens

Oral history interview with Dr. John Stevens by Owen Glen Cosgrove recorded 20 October 1975. Owen Cosgrove chose to interview Dr. John Stevens for his research project because Dr. Stevens went to Abilene Christian College as a history teacher in 1948 through the influence of Don H. Morris. He worked with Dr. Morris for several years in the college\u27s administration before succeeding him as President in 1969. Dr. Morris helped to groom Dr. Stevens for the presidency