Kay Atwood SOU oral history collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS-004

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

On October 11th, 1978 Kay Atwood entered an agreement with the college to interview past and present professors of Southern Oregon State College. Dates of interviews ranged from 10/19/1978 to 2/21/1980. The interviews covered the professors’ education, post-graduate experience, background and personal life, and their views on SOSC. Kay Atwood conducted the interviews at the interviewee’s home. Interviews lasted approximately two hours.

The materials include the 21 original cassette recordings of the interviews, the initial contract entered by Kay Atwood and the Southern Oregon State College arranging the interviews, along with fourteen files of typed transcripts of the interviews. Many of the files also contain the contract between Kay Atwood and the interviewee, photos and newspaper clippings related to the interviewee, and duplicate transcripts of the interview. The 21 original cassette recordings of the interviews.

Dates

Creation: 1978-1980

Creator

Atwood, Kay (Katherine Conlee) (Interviewer, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright and any related rights protect materials in this collection. Researchers are free to use these materials for any purpose that is permitted by the copyright and any rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses, researchers need to obtain permission from the rights holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

For fair use/educational reproduction, please provide the following credit: From the Kay Atwood SOU oral history collection, courtesy of Southern Oregon University Hannon Library.

Biographical / Historical

Local historian and author, Kay Atwood has written extensively about the Southern Oregon region. Atwood’s books include Illahe: The Story of Settlement in the Rogue River Canyon, Mill Creek Journal: Ashland Oregon, 1850-1860, and Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851-1855. Her many other books and articles explore the settlement and development of communities in Southern Oregon and include National Register nominations, cultural resource inventories, and environmental and organizational histories.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection consists of interviews of past and present professors of the Southern Oregon State College. Dates of interviews ranged from 10/19/1978 to 2/21/1980. The interviews covered the professors’ education, post-graduate experience, background and personal life, and their views on Southern Oregon State College.

Arrangement

Kay Atwood arranged materials in the collection.

Cassette tapes of the interviews and associated materials are housed in two boxes. Box one contains the initial contract entered by Kay Atwood and the Southern Oregon State College arranging the interviews, along with typed transcripts of the interviews. Many of the files also contain the contract between Kay Atwood and the interviewee, photos and newspaper clippings related to the interviewee, and duplicate transcripts of the interview. Box two contains the 21 original cassette recordings of the interviews.