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Home My WebLink AboutFaculty and Staff Panel 3July 15, 1998 Rm #103 Moderator: Bill Lay Panel: Cleve Walkup Jim Lancaster Bill Little Moderator: We're conducting a session this morning on the oral history of College Station which was dealing with the time period at Texas A&M University between 1900 -1949 of the A &M college faculty staff and support group. The recorder this morning is Ms. Florence Kling. My name is Bill Lay, I'm the moderator. And we have Cleve Walkup, Jim Lancaster and Bill Little with us this morning who will be giving us information about the things they remember about certain topics which happened at Texas A &M during this period of time. Let's start off generally by letting each one of them introduce themselves and telling just a brief bit about who their family was or... and if they were associated with the university and we'll start with Mr. Cleve Walkup. Cleve. CW: I came here as a college student in September 1941. I lived in project house one over on what was named Jersey Street, the Childress county project house. My first employment with A&M would have been the next year in 1942 when Dr. Chris Groneman gave me a NYA job sweeping out the mechanical engineering shop. Without that job I would not be wearing this Aggie Ring today. Moderator: Jim, do you want to tell us a bit about who you are and your connection? JL: My connection was my father working in the extension service and lived in the first house in College Park in College Station. I was born in College Station and went to A &M Consolidated grade school and high school on the A &M campus and I guess that's it as far as my background is concerned. Moderator: Bill? BL: My name is Bill Little. I was born in Bryan. My father taught Entomology here from 1923 to 1964 and I've lived here most of my life, certainly not all of it. I've been around of course, but I've lived here most of my life and I kind of knew some of the faculty and staff people who were here from 1949. Some of them lived in the 19th century and some of them that I have written down here. Some of them lived in the 19th century and some of them died within the last 15, 20 years. Moderator: Cleve, you mentioned the project houses. What were the project houses? CW: Well, the people like Dr. Dan Davis and Dr. Dan Russell got together and a bunch of county agents and people that helped poor boys that could not afford to live in the college dormitories. There were some framed, wooden - I think there was fourteen of them in that one spot over there, but there were others scattered around over town. Uh, I came to A&M in September 1941 with 99 dollars and a few pennies. I could not quite scrape together one hundred dollars to come to school on, but room and board in the regular dormitories would have been $45 a month. My 99 dollars wouldn't last me long, but at this project house, we got our room and board for sixteen dollars a month. And we helped out with the work of course around the place. But it was a bunch of poor boys that would not have been able to go to school otherwise if it hadn't been for those project houses. Moderator: Did any of you, you mentioned that your parents were here, did you work for the university per se. I think, Cleve, you eventually worked for the university. CW: Well, yes for 15 years and traveled around and taught farm wiring adult short courses from 1967 -1982. Moderator: Was that with the extension service? CW: Well, similar to the extension service, it was actually under the agriculture education department here on campus. But all of my work was away from campus. I worked with a local vocational ag teacher at his place of business at high school and we spent four nights in each electric wiring short course and in 15 years I went to 415, four night short courses across Texas. Moderator: Jim, you say your dad worked with the university? JL: With the Agriculture Extension Service. At one time (3 years) I worked for the Engineering Extension Service under Dr. Beardon. Moderator: And what type of work did he do? JL: He was a District Agent and Pasture Spcialist. He was here from about 1920 to I believe the 1950's. Moderator: And what did you do after you graduated from Texas A &M? JL: I left here in and went to work for the ACME Brick Co, Ft. Worth company. BL: Well my father taught entomology for A &M from 1923 to 1964, 41 years, and he authored several articles on entomology and that's about it. I've worked at different places, but I never worked in Bryan, but I have some stuff that I can remember written down about faculty and staff from the period of 1900 -1949 that I would be willing to recite... Moderator: We'll probably come back to that and maybe pick up on other things and some of these things might fit in. Let me narrow...there are several particular things that they want me to cover. Some of these things may be applicable to all of you because they talk about what are some of your experiences on the campus in the teen years rather than other things like if you had been a faculty member, staying on campus. We're going to try to bring in a lot of things if we can. They mentioned here about medical assistance and talked about sick leave and stuff like that. Probably Mr. Lancaster and Mr. Little can relate something to that. Do you remember anything about what kind of medical assistance were given to employees of the university at that time? JL: Dr. Marsh, A &M Hospital, he signed my birth certificate. For aches and pains, we went to the A &M Hospital. Moderator: Dr. Marsh, he provided service to the students and the faculty? JL: Faculty and children. As kids we would go to the A &M hospital and get fixed up. And nurse Claghorn was second in command. Moderator: Clayhorn, Ma Claghorn or something like that? JL: She was head nurse. Moderator: Is that how you remember it too Bill? That your services were provided through the university hospital? BL: I don't recall that. If they did I don't recall that. My father was never sick very much, he was such a healthy, old man. His death, when he died in 1986, his death came by surprise. I don't recall the university, well I might have gone to the college hospital when I was a student here. Moderator: Both you and your fathers were on the faculty here, either extension or on the faculty here on campus. Did you live on campus in one of the campus houses Mr. Lancaster? JL: Dad helped develop College Park He claims he cut the fence to the sheep pasture and built his house down there which was the Southside Development Company. Moderator: Did your parents live on campus? BL: My father bought land from C.W. Burchard, the lot that our house is still on it and before then C.W. Burchard, Southside Developement Company and before then I think some folks by the name of Hrdlicka who owned a store or something out on Wellborn Road. Moderator: That store is well known as I understand. BL: Yes, I think that it is still there but I wouldn't swear to it. I have no idea, the map of Brazos county showing surveys of Brazos County would show the survey which Southside Development Company was in. Moderator: I am not trying to leave you out Mr. Walkup. We are going to come back and ask you some more questions. I want to cover some of the things we're dealing with on campus right here. Did you attend campus schooling, your elementary and secondary schooling on campus in the consolidated district? JL: I attended school on campus from first grade to sophomore year in high school. So yes, I did go to school in College Station. BL: They said our district was a rather poor school district. The state had all these propoerties which were exempt from school taxes. Moderator: Your school was actually moved off campus then? BL: Yes, I know that they used to have a campus school, because it was in a building. I've been in it. It wasn't much. It was on campus. I'll show you. I would recognize it if I saw it. Moderator: Well, it is no longer there. I assume A &M provided all of the school faculty. Moderator: I think you are correct. In talking in some of the other interviews, it has come up that I think A&M provided the teachers and some of the other things which went on. I am not positive about the whole thing. What did you do after you ? . Go ahead, you wanted to make a comment. CW: My neighbor, Ben Youngblood, Jr., the younger member of the Youngblood's restaurant on South College Avenue, told me about going to A &M Consolidated. High School was in, in fact, the entire school as I understand was in Pfeuffer Hall which was between the Academic building and the Biology building which was then by the Cushion Library and the old building was still there when I came to school, of course here, clear up to the 40's. But that was the home, the A &M Consolidated home, entirely on the campus at that time. One of my fond memories as a student was living in Miller Hall, when the fire department was across the street in front of the exchange store and every time that fire siren would go off at night, I would jerk on my clothes and get out there on the street, because I had worked parking cars for the campus security and the KK's we'd call them and there were only about five or six or maybe seven members and I knew all of them or they knew me and so when they would come by to accompany the fire engine to the fire, I'd ride with them. That didn't help my grades any because I was too sleepy to stay awake at class the next day, then. But those were rich memories for me, to ride with the policeman to a fire in College Station from that fire station next door to Miller Hall. Moderator: So the fire protection for the whole community was provided by the faculties on the Texas A &M campus? : Where that parking lot is today right out in front of the exchange store, now the Registrar's Office or Heaton Hall. Moderator: The volunteer fire department? JL: Yes, the fire department was volunteer - it was also connected to the fireman's training program through the years. Moderator: What was his name? JL: Frank Brown worked in the electric department associated wth the campus facilities. He lived on campus near what is noe (I guess) this campus theater. Moderator: Frank Brown - and ah - where they? Did they have someone on duty there, just a person on duty periodically? ? When a fire siren went off, you would go to the fire station. Moderator: Right - And you said the security for the campus and I'm assuming for the community, whichever were almost the same thing. : Right. Moderator: Was provided by the university security force which was called the KK's. : KK's, we called them. KK's - Kampus Kops. CW: They were a good bunch of people they knew everybody and I didn't have to explain to them who I was when I stepped out there, they'ed open the door and I'd get in the car, that's because I'd work with them, parking cars at football games and so I wasn't a stranger. Moderator: What do the ? ? Of course there is a problem with all the faculty members, either in public schools or universities - usually you teach science once ? . Did your father teach all year long, Bill? Or do you recall? BL: Well, he ususally he would usually teach nine months and he would teach one six -week term and that was it. Now I have some information that I remember that I jotted down about faculty and some of the staff here. Moderator: Yeah, I want to get to it in just a minute. I'm not putting you off, but let's cover a couple more things on here, alright. Did you ? about a discounted check and I'll bet you that you probably since you, we're talking about your father. Did you ever hear your dad talk about a discounted check? : Discounting check? Moderator: Discounted check. : Discounted check - I never heard my _? Moderator: I have no idea what you are talking about. : I assume it is a check that ? Moderator: Sounds like it might have been some in the early days that they had some financial problems. ? , but I never heard my father talk about it. Moderator: What was the, although neither one of you lived on campus per say - What do you remember about the transportation in the area? How did you get around? By car, by walking, or did...? JL: The campus was no where near as large as it is now - most students walked. Faculty drove cars and parked near woek. We used to go skating on the campus in the summertime because most of the students were gone and there were 10,000 miles of concrete sidewalks on the campus. We enjoyed skating all over campus. So that was a real _ ?_ skating on the sidewalks. Moderator: How did the students get to , Cleve ? CW: Well, there was a bus that went from the north gate into Bryan about once every hour and that still operated till ohh about 1968 or '69 sometime. It was really dependable (tape mess up) no airconditioning or anything like that but if you got there and you were over in Bryan late at night and you couldn't catch a ride, well that bus was pretty handy. I don't remember any transportation around the campus as much... this was just between Bryan and College Station. Moderator: Some of the other conversations we had there was an inter -urban street corner : (mumbling. track ran through) there was a park where it stopped up there by the hospital across the street from the hospital there was a station (mumbling) Moderator: But that was cut off by 1940? Moderator: But that was gone by the time you were here in 1940? So I don't know when that hit. But there was at least an inurban to get back and forth before the bus station, anyway. BL: I understand there is a historical marker at about the city limit sign between Bryan and College Station a half mile fron the Northgate post office on College Main there, but I never did see it. Like I said, it was before my time. Moderator: But if you were going away from College Station, how did you get away? Did most people have cars or did they use ? ? That bad? CW: Hitchhiked! JL: The Greyhound. The Greyhound used to come to A &M and of course we had the two railways : the Missouri Pacific and the Southern Pacific. The Greyhound Bus stopped at old Aggieland Inn near Sibesa Hall. When I was a Freshman in '41 starting home for Christmas, the last meal about December 18th was at noon at that project house so I was on my own from there till the 375 miles to home west of Quanah. I caught reasonably good rides and gotten as far as Ft. Worth midnight that night. Then I walked from the court house across the Trinity River out to the stockyard. Bless his heart some old trucker picked me up about one o' clock in the morning and took me to Bowie but he said I've gone as far as I can go, I have to take me a rest stop. It was rather cool on December 18th in 1941. I had a total of 35 cents and hadn't had anything since lunch. And so I chanced to spend 15 cents for a hamburger and a nickle froa half pint bottle of milk that left me 15 cents that I could get another hamburger for the next day. I thought, "Surely I'll be home by then." Well as my luck turned out, I managed to get on home without having to spend that last 1 cents and of course as you know me, I've still got it (Laughing). Moderator: They raised a question about the parking situation on campus, I assume there wasn't a whole lotta problem with parking on campus at that time when you had big events. Parked all overthe drill fields. BL: But you talk about cars and parking, but it has only been since about 1946 that most male college students in the country had cars or any access to an automobile. D.B. Cofer, I think he said he can remember the first automobile. It was in 1910. He can also remember the first motion picture on campus and of course the first radio and this was Dr. Cofer. Moderator: What was his full name so we can get it on tape? BL: David Brooks Cofer. Back then college students, male college students didn't have cars. MY father seemed to think that number one, becoming a dependent on passenger cars as a means of transportation was one mistake. Doing away with passenger trains was another mistake. I can understand why we would want passenger cars, because number one you are not tied down to a schedule and number two, you are allowed more privacy in a passenger car than on a passenger train or a bus. Moderator: Much of the transportation was people coming to and from A &M as I understand back in those days was either by train and once the automoble got here, the ? , kind of helped out as far as that was concerned. Moderator: So if they came to an event such as a football game the train would come from Houston or Dallas bringing people in. When you were here, where did you do your shopping or where did your parents do there shopping? Were there stores here in College Station or in Bryan or... BL: Bryan. You asked about shopping. Moderator: This is another question. To show your age on this thing were any of you here when they had Vet village? BL: Yes, I can remember, not very well. JL: Vet Village was built on the old Polo Field, northwest of the college by the two water well structures. BL: I beg to differ! All I knew was there was a Veterans Village down there right around where the Horticulture department has those flowers, there kind of back of where the Clayton Williams building is. I don't remember a whole lot about it. Moderator: Cleve, did you stay on and continue your education when you got here or did you have to go to war? CW: Well, I was out for four years and eight months, from '43 -'47. Moderator: You got in three semesters of schooling here before you were drafted, before you left? CW: Well, I started in '41, finally got a degree in 1950 that wasn't much of a record but I was real proud of that degree in 1950. CW: I heard something, I heard some talk about it just barely in the mind of a child. I barely remember him talking about co- enrollment here. (Mumbling...) Moderator: Did you live in a project house the first time you were here? CW: Well, those two semesters in 1941 -1942, then again in the fall of '42. After I was married, I came back to live in that project house but it was worked into apartments then. That was the summer of'53 after I married. when I came back in '47, I lived in a regular dormatory over in dorm 10. Moderator: How did you get your laundry done? BL: College laundry every weeek. Bundle of laundry seemed like it was 60 cents or something loke that college laundry did a good job, but they used rather hot wather and.. Moderator: Elastic didn't last long CW: Like these pants I've got on I accused my wife if washing in too hot water. I'm sure it's because I was eating too much. Moderator: Where did the university get their power at that time Jim? Did they have thier own power plant? JL: The coal was already shipped in there by rail to the power plant (papers moving)...made thier own power, their own ice. Moderator: So the universtiy commited that they were pretty self sufficent as far as facilities electricty and providing ice you say and laundry service, the meal service everything you remember that ole' rail that would come by the north gate. JL: That rail delivered the coal to the power plant. CW: One of the highlights in my memory was the movie entilted "We're Never Been Licked" a war time movie about A &M. It had girls named Martha O'Driskle and another one named Ann Gwen. I don't remember the boys names, theyweren't as intresting. Robert Michum was in the movie but, they started that in 1942 and continued into '43 after I dropped out, but as I remember it took a lot of time awat form schooling because they hhad us lined up to march by and somebody would forget their lines and so we'd march by again and it took a lot of time away from school in the filiming that movie but I can at least tell people I was in that movie somewhere in that horde of people marching by there. Moderator: At that time, the university was basically all male, but were there female students attending any time during the year? BL: I don't remember. They would have girls in the summer time. Moderator: Were they basically daughters of faculity members? Community people usually though. Did they have all male instructors or were there female instructors? BL: You didn't have many female instructors at A &M until the 1970's, '71, '72. MUMBLING. Before that time you would have a few women instructors, but not many. Now they hire women on minority. Moderator: Did you mention some women faculity members that had come here for two or three years? BL: Well I said women faculty members, they might have a few taught in the math department in '42 to `45 but they didn't stay long. She said that A &M was a man's institution. Moderator: Did they have a telephone system when you were here Cleve at A &M? CW: Well there was one telephone in each dormatory. And of course most of us let it ring because we didn't want to go hunt up somebody, so we just let it ring. It wasn't very curteous, but it was for somebody else, so we let it ring and ring and ring. JL: The phone company served A &M and the surrounding area. "Central" was in an office above the fire dept. : From the house master housing office, they had these little yellow slips to have you report someplace. They delivered those to the house master if they are some runner from the housing office. One of the ways to communicate somebody... Moderator: If the dean or the dean's head or the department wanted to visit with you. : If it was something important, it was on a yellow slip Moderator: They would send a yellow slip to your house or to your dorm. : They would put it behind your schedule card on your door. Moderator: Were yall using schedule cards at that time? : Well they intended for you to pay attention to those things. The dormatories of course were not adaquitly wired to take care of any coffee pots or popcorn popers or anything llike that so you weren't supposed to do any cooking in the dormatories. Moderator: Did you have a campus newspaper or anything like that? ? ?: The Battalion ?? Oh, yeah. It wasn't everyday though. Just about twice a week or something like that. The Bryan Eagle was delivered. Moderator: So a lot of the other services, the telephone service operated out of A &M there really wasn't much structure here for the other facilities other than what A &M furnished then. JL: They were supporting their own faculty. MUMBLING BL: Do you want to get my information? Moderator: They asked us to describe specific stories about different instances or different departments that you want to share here. We're gonna be here for few minutes if you want to share some things that you know about what happened on campus or specific individuals or things. BL: This might be what you're looking for, if not you can delete it from the video and the tape recorder both. I heard my papa speak about Robert Franklin Smith, Professor of Mathamatics. You might if heard poeple talk about him Mr' Walker, you might have too Jim. He taught here from 1884 to about 1932 or '34. He's been written up in one of thise books wrote MUMBLING. He had been principal or superindendent of Willis Independent School District in Huntsville before coming to A &M. He might be called the first citzen of College Station, Texas. Bobby Smith was an important figure. He always appeared at the college chapel programs. He sang a duet with somebody. They say he was a social figure, a social gentleman. They would have college picnics..NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND... Cofer was here from 1910 to 1958. Well I allways thought very highly of Professor Cofer. He was one of the best teachers on the A &M campus. The only teacher in the English Departmetn that made any sense. And it was from him that I heard about the first automobile, thefirst movie, the first motion piture I would always ask him about when was the first bonfire at A &M, but no one since has had any clear idea about when bonfire began. Another intresting person was Dr.Floyd Barzilia Clark. They said he was a g000d man. He had a PhD in Political Science from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but he was a crack pot. He was one of ten children and his father was a crack pot and his mother died when Dr. Clark was quite young(LAUGHING AND MUMBLING) Well like father, like son. His father was a crack pot. He would talk they would lock horns LAUGHING. You could hear them all over the south side. He would spit and sputter all over his classes. One student wore a rain coat to class and Clark never did take the hint. And he had this idea of refining sugar from watermelon juice by using solar power. Moderator: We're running out of time already. I wanna give Jim or Cleve a chance to say anything they want to add to what we've been talking about this morning, either individuals or specific things which might have happened while you were here, that you heard your parents talk about. CW: One of the things I remember was being a night watchman on Kyle Field from midnight till the workers would get there when they were putting up the first putting up the first lights around Kyle Field summer of 1949. Mr. Hickman was head of the campus security and bless his heart, like us, he didn't hear well, so it was difficult to comminicate some times. He had hired so many students that didn't fit well in the night watching scheme and get scared or run off or go to sleep on the job or something. He asked me you're not afraid to stay down there in the dark by yourself at night are you? I said Mr. Hickman I sat up all night with old sow having pigs , I think I can stay down there. He thought that would be alright if I did that. There were 26 lights per pole and 6 poles. 24 of those lights were facing inward towards Kyle Field and the 2 corner ones were facing outword. Each one of those was a 1500 watt bulb. They were not concerned that the lights would get damaged unless some vandals came by and and took a stick and knocked those bulbs out or something. And that was my first job in social security was doing that night watching under the campus patrol in 1949. Moderator: Jim, is there anything you want to add? JL: Air planes would come to A &M and land in any open field, including the old golf course. I rode in my first plane (a Ford Tri - Motor) that landed in a field at the corner of George Bush and the railroad. While driving in, I thought about airplanes that used to land MUMBLING and they used to land on the golf course the free shows, there was always a free show on Sunday afternoons. Students local kids Moderator: Is that in Guion Hall? JL: Guion Hall. Prior to that it was the Old Assembly Hall there was always a free show. popcorn and peanut wars in that old assembly hall were something else. CW: My house master, James McCastlin from Chillicothe Texas, house master of Project House #1, was the first ticket taker at the campus theater when it was built in '41 or before. JL: Campus theater? EVERYONE TALKING AT ONCE. Do you want to hear some more about some more about the staff and faculty. Moderator: I think we're gonna have to cut it, if you want to give it to the recorder and we can, you've got the notes, and the recorder can keep it, can include it in that way if you don't mind. Again I want to hank each one of you for your information. Try and look over it to cover all the questions I had. Bill did you have something you wanted to add? BL: Just these last two items. Do you have a xerox here? Moderator: It says describe specific incidents of stories. you mentioned something about peanut fights and a few other things that we may not want to share with anybody. Looks like we covered all the points thay want covered. Thank you for sharing your experiences with is here. If you think of something worthy to be in here, give us a note and you can give it to the people here at the confrence center . This section of the oral history or if you run across a picture or documnet or something that you would like to have recorded, if you can get that to the oral history project at the confrence center they will be glad to make copies of it. They din't want to keep the original, but they will make copies if it. 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Interviewer signature) Date J �S 45' Interview (Please Prii) I hereby give and grant to the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, City of College Station, Texas, for whatever purposes may be determined, the tape recordings, transcriptions, and contents of this oral history interview. Also, permission is hereby given for any duplications of original photos, documents, maps, etc. useful to the history project to be returned unharmed. Interviewee releases, relinquishes and discharges CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from all claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, including the cost of defense thereof, for any injury to, including the cost of defense thereof for any injury to, including death of, any person, whether that person be a third person, Interviewee, or an employee of either of the parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties hereto or of third parties, caused by or alleged to be caused by, arising out of, or in connection with Interviewee provision of historical information, whether or not said claims, demands and causes of action in whole or in part are covered by insurance. I — ( � Li l , iii 1I L I IV r ewee ) yie I. e , Inte ' ewer (Please Pint) / / /1 Signature )if Interviewer ��. Ce Place of Interview List of photos. documents. mans. etc. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE City of College Station, Texas 77840 ORAL HISTORY DATA SHEET A drams % 444-0 Telephone � Date of Birth Place of Birth Initial INTERVIEW STATUS: Completed In progress Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property, arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. Such indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in whole or in part from the negligence of city. Signature of Inte<iiewer Place of Interview List of photos. documents. mans. etc. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE City of College Station, Texas 77840 ORAL HISTORY DATA SHEET I hereby give and grant to the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, City of College Station, Texas, for whatever purposes may be determined, the tape recordings, transcriptions, and contents of this oral history interview. Also, permission is hereby given for any duplications of original photos, documents, maps, etc. useful to the history project to be returned unharmed. Interviewee releases, relinquishes and discharges CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from all claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, including the cost of defense thereof, for any injury to, including the cost of defense thereof for any injury to, including death of, any person, whether that person be a third person, Interviewee, or an employee of either of the parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties hereto or of third parties, caused by or alleged to be caused by, arising out of, or in connection with Interviewee provision of historical information, whether or not said claims, demands and causes of action in whole or in part are covered by insurance. Int 4 4 /a Interviewer (Plas Print) '/1 ' rviewee ( P gnature of Interviewee trc L/� - Name Addres s S ii ,c..F S Telephone ' Date of Birth C5rc /,Q Place of Birth r l,F= 77 0 ,At INTERVIEW STATUS: Completed Date . Initial In progress Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property, arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. Such indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in whole or in part from the negligence of city. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE City of College Station, Texas 77840 ORAL HISTORY DATA SHEET I hereby give and grant to the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, City of College Station, Texas, for whatever purposes may be determined, the tape recordings, transcriptions, and contents of this oral history interview. Also, permission is hereby given for any duplications of original photos, documents, maps, etc. useful to the history project to be returned unharmed. Interviewee releases, relinquishes and discharges CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from all claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, including the cost of defense thereof, for any injury to, including the cost of defense thereof for any injury to, including death of, any person, whether that person be a third person, Interviewee, or an employee of either of the parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties hereto or of third parties, caused by or alleged to be caused by, arising out of, or in connection with Interviewee provision of historical information, whether or not said claims, demands and causes of action in whole or in part are covered by insurance. X HO US 70,u G/ ' A,L f,C Interviewee Please print) Signature of terviewee Name GCE S 7 5,�y ,„ ; /T- 77a 0/ Addres 4 � ( � i /o % 814-1 $'og //- C � y I (Pleaseirint) Signature /of Interviewer Place of Interview List of photos. documents. mans. etc. Telephone Date of Birth / AY / Z `f Place of Birth GOTTL eo u,v -r , TI s 6JN A FAR 51 ,v1 /LE s svorr{ o /R,rZA.vp INTERVIEW STATUS: Completed Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property, arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. 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