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: John van der Pyl, Alan Campbell, Maggie Robinson, Jerry Rhodes, Phyllis Yarber Hogan, Ryan Warfield, Sarah Shofstall, Laurel Price Jones, Janet Haar, Joan Webster, Idajeanne Robinson Brown, Roberta Garcia, Nia Lewis, Wesley Patterson, Jordann Sadler, Stanley Miller, Gio Donovan, Prue Richard, Charlotte Wray, Scott Broadwell, Albert G. Miller, Alan Campbell, Meisha Baker, Sue Brady, Kurt Russell, Cheryl Brice, Jim Donovan, Sondra (Owens) Miller, Kathleen "Kerry" Glaus, Louise Zeitlin, Ann Francis, Sue Wurster, Ren Waldman, Rev. Fred Bell
Story Circle: Community Peace Builders, Memories of Al Carroll
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 #1
Story Circle: OHIO to OHC #2
Story Circle: OHS Class of 1969: Marching Band, Kipton Incident, Football
Story Circle: PATCO Strike at the Oberlin FAA Center
Story Circle: Retired Teachers
Story Circle: Vietnam
Story Circle: WOBC Radio interviews (3)
Apollo Theatre Memories
Juneteenth 2009
Oberlin Medicine: Allen Hospital / Oberlin Clinic
Ellen Adams
Carmen Twillie Ambar
Cynthia Andrews
Camille Hamlin Allen*
Erik Andrews*
Paul B. Arnold**
Millie Haulk Arthrell
David Ashenhurst*
Gabriella "Ella" Keresztes Bachnika
Chuck Bailey
Charlotte Baker
Dorothy Baker
Fran Baumann*
Jeanne Bay*
Mary Behm
Clifford Berry
Herbert Billington*
Evans Blakely, Jr.**
Jane Blodgett*
Sigrid Boe
Laurine Bongiorno
Laura Boos
Foster W. and Edith Bows
Dorothy S. Boyers
Julia Brady*
Sue Brady*
Leo Braido
Midge Brittingham / Christ Church Female Priests
Howard Broadwell*
Scott Broadwell**
Mabel J. Brown
Corwin S. Burrer
Jeanne Butts (family project)
Jesse Carlock
Demaris (Demmie) Carrell**
Delores Carter
Mervin Champe
Gladys Champney
Lee Champney
Mildred Locke Chapin
Bob Clark*
Dave Clark**
Ken Clark II**
Jack Cochrane*
Marianne Cochrane**
C. Lea Comings
Tad Cowling
Magdalene Jackson Cox
Ann Craig*
Peter Crowell*
Dan Cunningham**
Mary Anne Cunningham
Jan DeMarinis*
John Denny
Emma "Kitty" Denny-Smith
Eleanor Devereux*
Stella Mallory Dickerman
Theresa Dietz
Robert DiSpirito
James Donovan
Danny Douglass*
Corrine Durand Dudley
Marion Dudley
Richard Dunn
Aiko Ebihara
Walter Edling
John Elder (Plum Creek)
Manuel Espinoza
Mrs. Marvyl Fields
David Finke*
Nancy Finke*
Mary Wright Fisk
Margie Flood
Arthur M. Fowls
Blanche Pettiford Fox
Anne Francis*
Chris Frank
Ann Fuller
Meredith Gadsby
Tom Geary*
Allyn Gibson*
Harold Dean Gibson*
Marty Gibson*
Richard "Dick" Gilbert**
Linda Gilmore (Plum Creek & Personal)**
Lillian Adora Godette
Che Gonzalez
Maynard Gott
Daniel Goulding*
Elizabeth Goulding*
Bernice Grant
Rich Grdijan*
Dianne Green
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
Barney Hartman*
Margaret Haylor
Karl Florian Heiser
Michael Henle*
Hope Hibbard
Elaine Smith Hill*
Rob Hillard
Glenn S. Hobbs, Jr.
Glenn Hodge
Arthur Holbrook
Nelson Horey*
Herman Hudnell
Don Hultquist*
Nancy Hultquist*
Lewis J. Ives
Maurice Ives
Gertrude Jacob
Robin Jindra**
Terry Johns*
Douglas Johnson
Douglas Johnson (Architecture)
Helen Davidson Johnson
Marjorie Witt Johnson
Molly Johnson*
Shirley R. Johnson
Stephen Johnson, III*
Geneva "Gigi" Jones
George T. Jones
Robert "BJ" Jones
Mary H. Joy
Marion Bradley Kelly
Sarah "Sally" MacLennan Kerr
Barbara Hiscox King
Marguerite Huston King
Carl Wade, Jr., and Rebecca Kinney
Ray Kneisel*
Jean Kohut
Audrey Kolb
Louise Jones Kolb
Marvin Luther Kolb
Gunnar and Leslie Kwakye
Rebecca "Becky" Lahetta
George Langeler
Bert Latran, Jr.*
Alice Lawson
Marie Lehti
Bert Locke**
Frank C. Locke
Bill Long
Norman G. Long
Robert and Carol Longsworth
Richard Lothrop
James Lubetkin
Molly R. Ludwig
Margaret Maruschak
Charles Mayle
Mary Beth Hartson McCalla
Carl and Mary McDaniel
Otis C. McKee
Jeanne McKibben*
Randy McMickens*
Tony Mealy**
Anna Melcher
Marlene "Marly" Merrill*
Sue Meyer*
Brittany Mittler*
Charles A. and Harriet Mosher
Pat Murphy
Eric Nord
Evan Nord
Jane Nord
Joyce Parker*
Marjorie Peabody Parker
Allan Patterson
Carrie Pease
Jeanne Pease
Booker Peek
Witt (Wallace) Pettiford
Connie Ponder
Gene Presti**
Pat Gorske Price*
Alice F. Quinn
Cathe Radabaugh*
Jessie Reeder*
Harriet Decker Reynolds
Barry Richard / Chalk Walk
Ronnie Rimbert
Doug Roberts*
Craig Robinson
Ken Roose
Lee Ross
Linda Rothaker*
Minnie Louise Rucker
Wendell Russell
Edward J. Sable
Mildred Salo
Margaret R. Schauffler
Dina Schoonmaker**
Susan Schubert
Liz Schultz**
Centrilla Scott
Gerald Scott
Janie Burgess Scott
Laura Seasholes / Underground Railroad Quilt
Jean Shannon*
John Sherrod, Jr.**
Donna Shurr
Eugene (Jean) Simon
Leslie Simonson*
Tim Simonson*
Linda Slocum
Dorothy Smith
Margaret Smith
Monica Smith*
Sharon Fairchild Soucy
Alice Spotts
Elizabeth (Betty) Spurlock
Ursula Stechow
Bill & Arlene Steel
Diana Steele
Priscilla Steinberg*
Patricia B. (Patty) Stetson*
Sherry Suttles
J. Ransom Taylor
Lillie Faye Taylor
Tom Taylor
Barbara Thomas
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
Carla Van Dale*
Rosamond Watson
Josephine Quinn Weatherspoon
Joan Webster
Herbert Weinberg*
Rick Weinbrenner*
Frankell Wade White
Rev. Dr. Brian Wilbert
Richard Williams
Dean Wolfe
Dudley Wood
Lee Wood*
Florene Worcester
Annessa Wyman**
Ian Yarber (Plum Creek)
Frank Zavodsky
Additional Oral History Projects in Oberlin
Community Voices articles on the Environmental Dashboard
Kendal at Oberlin interviews (varied)
Latina/o/x Oral Histories of Northeast Ohio - Oberlin College community oral history project
OberCast - Oberlin College podcast series
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
*Participant in a Story Circle Interview.
**Participant in multiple interviews.
