NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Quilliam, Dr. Reed 1

Date of interview: December 3, 1973
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Dr. Reed Quilliam, a former Texas state representative, discusses his involvement in state politics.

Topics:
Background—Beaumont, Texas; U. S. Navy
Politics—Texas Legislature
Governors of Texas—comparisons
Lobbyists and lobbying techniques
Mexican-Americans—role in state politics
State revenue
Texas State Teachers’ Association
Texas Tech University—appropriations for law school
Ben Barnes—tenure as Speaker of the House

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Quilliam, Dr. Reed 2

Date of interview: December 13, 1973
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 30 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Dr. Reed Quilliam, Texas Tech law professor and former state representative, discusses legislation concerning Texas Tech University and the reasons he went back there.

Topics:
Politics—Texas Legislature
Appropriations bills—amendments
Congressional session (1967)
Highways and Roads Committee—Quilliam as chairman
"Last Tango in Paris" incident
Pledge card system
Public education—problems in financing
Regional authority issues
Sharpstown scandal
State School for the Mentally Retarded
Texas Tech University—Law School, Medical School, name change issue

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Quinby, J. Roy 1

Date of interview: May 19, 1974
Location of interview: Plainview, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour)

Brief synopsis of interview: Plant scientist J. Roy Quinby discusses the development of grain varieties, hybrids and combine types. Cotton, mechanization, chemicals and weather are also mentioned.

Topics:
Agriculture—mechanization and other changing modes
Chillicothe, Texas—early research and experiments with cotton
Great Depression—AAA restrictions on developing combine types
Seed breeders—Lou Acres, N. W. Cramer, R. E. Karper, Aubrey Lockett

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Quinby, J. Roy 2

Date of interview: April 1, 1982
Location of interview: Halfway, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (2 hours)

Brief synopsis of interview: J. Roy Quinby discusses his experience at the Texas Experiment Station developing hybrid sorghum.

Topics:
Boll weevil control methods
California—early experience in Imperial Valley
Cotton production—development of hybrids
Great Depression—AAA, Agricultural Soil Conservation Act
Grain sorghum production—hybrids and varieties; mechanization
George Moffet
Victor Schoffelmayer

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED:  Quintero, Jr., Ralph

Date of Interview:  June 15, 2000

Location of Interview:  Amarillo, Texas

Length of Interview:  1 hour

Brief Synopsis of Interview:   Ralph Quintero, Jr. talks about growing up in his grandmother’s house in the barrio in Amarillo, Texas, about his grandmother and about the community in the barrio.

Topics:

Quintero Jr., Ralph

Amarillo, Texas barrios

Barrios - Amarillo, Texas

Mexican bingo

Mexican Christmas tradition

Mama Lupe Quintero

Santa Fe Railroad in Amarillo, Texas

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rael, Jose I.

Date of interview: January 8, 1974
Location of interview: Amarillo, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (55 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Jose Rael, a member of the Amarillo School Board, discusses the problems of Mexican-Americans, especially in Amarillo, and reveals his attitudes toward Hispanic political and social goals.

Topics:
Family background—San Luis Valley, Colorado
Amarillo College—AAUP censure against
Education—Stanford University
Ethnic minorities—discrimination and integration through education
Insurance business—Amarillo
Mexican-American communities—Texas
Roman Catholic Church—De Colores organization
Union Oil Company—exploration geology

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Ragus, Pete 1

Date of interview: August 10, 1971
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (50 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Pete Ragus, athletic director for Lubbock schools, discusses the objectives and problems of policy making for Lubbock’s athletic programs.

Topics:
Family background
Education—Abilene Christian College
Athletic programs—philosophy and objectives
Competitive programs vs. Intramurals
Dress codes—discrepancies
Group unity—relationship to administrative authority and control

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Ragus, Pete 2

Date of interview: March 21, 1985 and April 5, 1987
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 15 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Pete Ragus reminisces about his career in coaching and as athletic director for the Lubbock schools. He also recounts experiences from his childhood in California.

Topics:
Family life and background—Sanger and Campbell, California
Great Depression—poverty and federal assistance
Education—Abilene Christian College
Teaching/coaching career—Stamford and Corpus Christi, Texas
Lubbock ISD—athletic director
Athletics in public schools—changing character and philosophy
Nat Williams
Gordon Wood

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rainey, Sue Ava

Date of interview: March 15, 1973
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 10 minutes)

Brief synopsis of interview: Sue Ava Rainey recalls her 24 years as a physical education instructor and sponsor of the Mortar Board women’s honorary society at Texas Tech and discusses the university’s growth during that time.

Topics:
Texas Tech University—politics, campus life and organizations
Physical Education departments—Texas Tech
Mortar Board (formerly Forum)—Texas Tech
Early teaching career—University Junior High (Austin) and Trinity University
J. Evetts Haley
E. N. Jones
William Whyburn
Dossie M. Wiggins

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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rainwater, Alma

Date of Interview: October 6, 1998
Location of Interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of Interview: 1:00

Brief Synopsis of Interview: Alma Rainwater discusses her life in Lubbock, Texas and the discrimination she has had to go through.

Topics:
Rainwater, Alma
Minority abstract
Choctaw Indians
Cotton farming
Dust storms
Water supply
Electricity
Dunbar
Discrimination
Segregation
Integration
Lubbock, Texas
Demographics of Lubbock
Twentieth and Birch Church of Christ

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