NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Parkhill, Miriam C.

Date of interview: July 19, 1978
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Mrs. Parkhill, wife of civil engineer Gordon Parkhill, recalls her past and discusses her association with Texas Tech and its early history.

Topics:
Black Hills Power Company—Deadwood, South Dakota
Family history
Football—Texas Tech
Harry Roberts and Company—Lubbock storm sewer system
Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Consulting Engineers
Texas Tech University—civil and textile engineering departments
Teaching career—County Line, Texas
Works Progress Administration
William Curry Holden
Paul W. Horn
Clifford B. Jones
E. J. "Pinky" Lowery 

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Parks, George

Date of interview: May 5, 1972
Location of interview: Roscoe, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 50 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: George Parks relates the history of the Roscoe Boys Club, its change form the Boy Scout organization, its activities, community and area programs, methods of financing and national publicity.

Topics:
Family background
Athletics—Texas (Boys Clubs)
Boys Clubs—Texas (Roscoe)
Boy Scouts of America—Texas
Ed Sullivan Show—attempts to appear on it
Field trips and jamborees
Fund raising events and activities
Roscoe Museum

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Parrack, Earl

Date of interview: February 15, 1979
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Earl Parrack discusses his past in West Texas.

Topics:
Family background—Crosby County, Texas
Abernathy, Texas—Santa Fe Railroad and oil boom
Agriculture—family farms and homesteads
Cotton production—gin in Lockney, Texas
Detroit, Michigan—cars and labor strikes
Livestock—owners
Minorities—West Texas communities
Schools—District Five 

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Parsons, L. E. 1

Date of interview: February 27, 1975
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour, 30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: L. E. Parsons, a Texas Tech student from 1929 to 1936, and a professor of textile engineering since 1942, discusses that department and the development of synthetic fibers.

Topics:
Family background—dry land cotton farming
Fabrics—synthetic and man-made
John Nance Garner—suit made for him
Texas Tech University—Textile Engineering Department

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Parsons, L. E. 2

Date of interview: March 11, 1975
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour, 30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: L. E. Parsons discusses the textile industry, with explanations of specialty fibers and dyeing processes, and reviews his work as a professor of textile engineering at Texas Tech.

Topics:
Family and background—DuPont Company in Tennessee
Dyeing processes
Fabrics—natural and synthetic types
Fibrous materials—history
Texas Tech University—Textile Engineering Department
John Bradford
Harold Hinn

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Parsons, L. E. 3

Date of interview: October 16, 1975
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 15 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: L. E. Parsons speaks of his many years in textiles, emphasizing his experiences as a textile engineering professor on the faculty of Texas Tech University.

Topics:
Cotton production—textiles
Europe—Post-World War II conditions (1949)
Great Depression—employment opportunities scarce
Presidents of Texas Tech—Clifford B. Jones, Dossie M.Wiggins, E. N. Jones, Robert C. Goodwin
Synthetic fibers
Texas Tech University—Textile Research Center and College of Engineering
Textile Mills—Texas

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Partin, Rev. James W.

Date of interview: January 13, 1981
Location of interview: Tuscola, Texas
Length of interview: 3 tapes (2 hours, 25 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Rev. James W. Partin, retired Baptist pastor, reminisces about his youth and discusses aspects of daily life in West Texas. He concludes with comments about his future.

Topics:
Family life and background—Anson, Texas
Agriculture—family farms and early modes
Baptist churches and ministers—Texas
Hardin-Simmons University—faculty and administrators (J. D. Sandefer, Rupert N. Richardson, E. G. Atwood, W. F. Fry)
Ku Klux Klan
Lubbock band—Frank Lester
Ranches—LFD, Spade and Slaughter (Long S)
Henry Partin—buffalo hunter
Sermons—preparation, sources and delivery
Women—pioneer roles and chores

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Passmore, Gene

Date of interview: August 5, 1970
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (25 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Gene Passmore describes the damage inflicted to Bruckner Truck Sales by the Lubbock tornado of May 11, 1970.

Topics:
Weather conditions—tornadoes
Storm damages—Bruckner Truck Sales 

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