Oral Histories
Interviews of the following organizations and individuals have been conducted. More information about each interviewee, including main topics of their interview, are included on the prefaces page accessed from the Oberlin Oral History Project page. Interviewees are listed in alphabetical order. Researchers interested in particular topics or events can contact us and request to use our indexes or read the transcripts or listen to the audiotapes. A list at the bottom of the page also includes oral histories and interviews conducted by other community organizations.
Interviewed, yet to be processed: Rob DiSpirito, Stephen Johnson III, Sarah MacLennan Kerr, Jean Kohut, Ronnie Rimbert, Lillie Faye Taylor, Mary Anne Cunningham, Jim Donovan, Kitty Smith, Sharon Soucy
Story Circle: Community Players
Story Circle: Downtown Business
Story Circle: Oberlin Oral History Project
Story Circle: Ninde Scholars Program Beginnings
Story Circle: OHIO to OHC
Story Circle: Retired Teachers
Story Circle: Vietnam
Apollo Theatre Memories
Juneteenth 2009
Oberlin Medicine: Allen Hospital / Oberlin Clinic
Ellen Adams
Paul B. Arnold
Millie Haulk Arthrell
Gabriella "Ella" Keresztes Bachnika
Chuck Bailey
Dorothy Baker
Clifford Berry
Sigrid Boe
Laurine Bongiorno
Laura Boos
Foster W. and Edith Bows
Dorothy S. Boyers
Midge Brittingham / Christ Church Female Priests
Scott Broadwell (Plum Creek)
Mabel J. Brown
Corwin S. Burrer
Jeanne Butts (family project)
Delores Carter
Gladys Champney
Lee Champney
Mildred Locke Chapin
Dave Clark
Marianne Cochrane
C. Lea Comings
Magdalene Jackson Cox
John Denny
Stella Mallory Dickerman
Theresa Dietz
Corrine Durand Dudley
Marion Dudley
Richard Dunn
Walt Edling
John Elder (Plum Creek)
Manuel Espinoza
Mrs. Marvyl Fields
Mary Wright Fisk
Arthur M. Fowls
Blanche Pettiford Fox
Harold Gibson
Richard Gilbert
Linda Gilmore (Plum Creek)
Lillian Adora Godette
Maynard Gott
Bernice Grant
Esther Brown Gutman
Kinzer Habecker
Mildred F. Haines
May (Ruby) Van Ausdale Hall
Myriam Lahaurine Johnston (Mrs. Richard R. Hallock)
Aaron Hamlin
Grace M. Harlow
Elmer Garfield Harris
Margaret Haylor
Karl Florian Heiser
Hope Hibbard
Glenn S. Hobbs, Jr.
Arthur Holbrook
Herman Hudnell
Lewis J. Ives
Maurice Ives
Gertrude Jacob
Douglas Johnson
Douglas Johnson (Architecture)
Helen Davidson Johnson
Marjorie Witt Johnson
Shirley R. Johnson
Geneva "Gigi" Jones
George T. Jones
Robert "BJ" Jones
Mary H. Joy
Marion Bradley Kelly
Marguerite Huston King
Carl Wade, Jr., and Rebecca Kinney
Louise Jones Kolb
Marvin Luther Kolb
George Langeler
Alice Lawson
Marie Lehti
Bert Locke
Frank C. Locke
Bill Long
Norman G. Long
Richard Lothrop
James Lubetkin
Molly R. Ludwig
Margaret Maruschak
Charles Mayle
Mary Beth Hartson McCalla
Otis C. McKee
Anna Melcher
Charles A. and Harriet Mosher
Pat Murphy
Eric Nord
Evan Nord
Jane Nord
Marjorie Peabody Parker
Allan Patterson
Carrie Pease
Jeanne Pease
Booker Peek
Witt (Wallace) Pettiford
Connie Ponder
Gene Presti
Alice F. Quinn
Harriet Decker Reynolds
Barry Richard / Chalk Walk
Ken Roose
Lee Ross
Minnie Louise Rucker
Edward J. Sable
Mildred Salo
Margaret R. Schauffler
Susan Schubert
Gerald Scott
Janie Burgess Scott
Eugene (Jean) Simon
Dorothy Smith
Margaret Smith
Alice Spotts
Elizabeth (Betty) Spurlock
Ursula Stechow
Bill & Arlene Steel
Patricia B. (Patty) Stetson
Sherry Suttles
J. Ransom Taylor
Tom Taylor
Elizabeth (Betty) Thomas
Robert S. (Bob) Thomas
Robert S. Thomas (Bob), joint interview
with George Jones and Betty Thomas
Francine Toss
Eugene Tresch
Archibald R. Tuck
Jennie Tucker
Bill Van Ausdale
Rosamund Watson
Frankell Wade White
Richard Williams
Dean Wolfe
Dudley Wood
Florene Worcester
Ian Yarber (Plum Creek)
Frank Zavodsky
Additional Oral History Projects in Oberlin
Community Voices articles on the Environmental Dashboard
Kendal at Oberlin interviews (varied)
Oberlin College Archives (varied)
Oberlin Through Brown Eyes radio interview project of the Oberlin African-American Genealogy and History Group
Oh, Oberlin Podcast series by Peter Comings
