FY 21 Faculty Publications
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Item You want me to lead?(Curious Academic Publishing, 2022-01-31) Gabbert, Wrennah L.; Vaidya, KishorItem Lions, tigers, bears and who?(Curious Academic Publishing, 2021-10-29) Gabbert, Wrennah L.; Vaidya, KishorItem DLHE SO Binder Examples(2021) DLHE Assessment and Accreditation CommitteeItem DLHE SO Map- Excel(2021) DLHE Assessment and Accreditation CommitteeItem DLHE SO Mapping Form(2021) DLHE Assessment and Accreditation CommitteeItem DLHE Key Performance Indicators and Assessment Rubrics(2021) DLHE Assessment and Accreditation CommitteeItem Oral memoirs of Mary Faye Stanley: an interview conducted on July 10, 2020(2021-06-21) Dickmeyer, LaurieMary Faye Stanley was born in Truby, Texas and grew up in Abilene, Texas. She was attending school during World War II and notes that life went on more or less as usual in the country during the war. However, her father, a pilot, registered but did not serve. Both of her older brothers trained for service in World War II—Leslie Jr. for the infantry and Billy for the Air Force. Stanley also recalls that Pearl Harbor was a topic of discussion at church. In addition to the interview, supplemental files also include ephemera and notes from Mary Faye Stanley on life in Truby, Texas.Item Oral memoirs of Roger Ellison: an interview conducted on April 9, 2020(2021-06-21) Dickmeyer, LaurieRoger Ellison relates a number of anecdotes relating to the World War II service of his father Tom D Ellison (1925-2018). Tom D Ellison enlisted with the U.S. Navy in 1942 at the young age of 17. After training in Farragut, Idaho, he was stationed at Dunkeswell base in England, where he primarily worked as a mechanic on submarine-hunting P4BYs. One story includes a severe storm that swept away all of the armaments on board of his ship. While in England, Tom D Ellison met and married Jean Lewis, a member of the British Land Army. Following the end of the war, Ellison had to plead with his commanding officer for time to escort his pregnant wife to his hometown of Sierra Blanca, Texas. Ellison was then shipped to Japan as part of a Catalina crew until his service ended in 1946.Item Oral memoirs of Merrell Waddell: an interview conducted on August 11, 2020(2021-06-18)Merrell Waddell was born in Menard, Texas on March 18, 1931. At the age of 19, he enlisted in the Air Force and served for four years. He had received draft papers but did not want to serve as a regular soldier and instead opted for the Air Force. When he traveled to Lackland Airforce Base in San Antonio for basic training, he described himself as a “cowboy coming into the big town.” After 13 weeks of training, he received additional training in airplane mechanics and instrumentation in Wichita Falls, Texas and Chanute, Illinois. He was assigned to Roswell, New Mexico, where he worked on bombers like the B-29 Superfortresses. When volunteers were requested to serve in Korea, Waddell stepped forward. In 1953 and 1954, he worked in Korea on a F-86 Sabre Jet. In the interview he describes a near miss with death when he decided not to travel to Tokyo for R&R because he did not have enough spending money. The plane he would have taken crashed, killing many of those on board. Waddell also recalls how North Korean planes would fly under the radar at night to bomb the base in what were known as “Bedcheck Charlies.” He also commented on Korea—the people and their attitude toward Americans, the weather, and traditional homes. Waddell also observed that returning Korean War veterans did not receive as much fanfare as veterans of WWII. Ultimately, he views his time in the Air Force as a time when he grew up and matured.Item Oral memoirs of Linda Roe: an interview conducted on July 18, 2020(2021-06-18)In this interview, Linda Roe discusses the life and WWII service of her father, Jerry Thomas Spencer. Born in 1918 in Harris County, Texas, Spencer grew up on a dairy farm. Immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and left for basic training in February 1942. His rank was staff sergeant and then later technical sergeant. Because he was small in stature, he became a turret gunner for the Blonde Bomber, a B-25 in the 408th Squadron that flew missions in the Pacific. In total, Spencer flew 54 missions with the plane until he was grounded with malaria. On the next mission that the plane flew without him, it went down. Roe recounts a particularly harrowing story of her father repairing the landing gear of the plane in the air, which saved the plane from crashing and its crew from having to parachute. Following the war, Spencer returned home to work as a dairy farmer and mail carrier and married. Although he was a peaceful person, he never lost his wild, fun-loving spirit.Item Oral memoirs of Roger Gilbert: an interview conducted on July 2, 2020(2021-06-18) Dickmeyer, LaurieIn this brief interview Roger Gilbert discusses the WWII experiences of his grandfather Johnnie Alexander Dimas. Born on June 24, 1924 in Rosebud, Texas, Dimas was raised in Waco, Texas. Due to a sense of patriotism, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was deployed at Guam. He was medically discharged. Following the war, he had a varied career, singing in nightclubs, teaching salsa, and working as a chef.Item Oral memoirs of Walt Fleming: an interview conducted on May 12, 2020(2021-06-18) Dickmeyer, LaurieBorn in Van Zandt County, Texas, Walt Fleming was raised in New Mexico during the Great Depression. On May 1, 1944, he enlisted in the Navy at the age of 15, underage, having lied about his age and forged his parents’ signatures. He served in the Navy for two years with the rank of Seaman First. After training in San Diego, Fleming became the operator of a Higgins boat, the Napa APA-157, which was used to land troops and transport wounded. Fleming recalls in some detail his part in the invasion of Iwo Jima, including when another transport ship collided with and nearly sank the Napa. He also describes additional trips in the Pacific transporting troops and other ways that the war impacted him and his outlook on the United States and life. While his vessel was in Norfolk, Virginia unloading guns and other equipment, he met his first wife May and describes the risks he took to see her. Following the war, he did not speak about it, but six decades later a parade inspired him to write and talk about his story.Item Oral memoirs of Phil George: an interview conducted on February 4, 2020(2021-06-18)Phil George was born in Austin, Texas on June 3, 1924. At the age of 18, George hitchhiked to San Antonio with a friend to sign up for the United States Army Air Corps, and was selected to join the pilot training program. He completed his aviation training in the United States before being deployed to the Pacific, where he spent most of his time at Chikyang, a remote airfield in western China the United States had taken over from the Japanese. Following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August of 1945, George was sent on a mission to transport displaced members of the Chinese government from Chungking to Nanking in eastern China, which the Japanese had overtaken in 1937.Item Oral memoirs of D. R. Bushnell Jr.: an interview conducted on March 11, 2020(2021-06-09)In this interview, D.R. Bushnell Jr. (b. 1925) relates in detail his experiences growing up in Johnson City, Texas, his time as a radar man in the South Pacific during World War II, and then his life in West Texas following the war. Bushnell rarely ventured far beyond Johnson City as a child, and describes how his parochial worldview was suddenly disrupted in 1943 at the age of 18 by his drafting into the Navy. He first had to report to San Antonio and then was sent by train to San Diego for bootcamp and then San Clemente Island for radar training school. He was then later assigned to an escort aircraft carrier (referred to as a “jeep carrier” or “baby flattop”) that transported planes and supplies to the South Pacific. Following the conclusion of the war, his ship ferried soldiers from Asia and the Pacific back to the United States. Following his service, Bushnell returned to West Texas, where worked at a hardware store and met and married his wife and started a family. They lived in Earth, Muleshoe, Bovina, and then later returned to Johnson City, where they owned a restaurant and antiques business.Item Oral Memoirs of Terri Hamer: an interview conducted on April 3, 2020(2021-06-02)Terri Hamer was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 24, 1932. When World War II broke out, she was 9 years old and in the third grade. She lived with her widowed mother, two older brothers, and one younger brother. Her eldest brother joined the Japanese Navy. In this interview, Terri Hamer recalls sirens warning of airstrikes and remaining vigilant at night in case of attack. At one point her house was destroyed. She was forced to move several times to live with family or acquaintances, sometimes in cramped and uncomfortable conditions, in Tokyo and Niigata. Her interview vividly describes a long train ride from Niigata to Tokyo during the announcement of the Japanese surrender. After the war, she attended a girls’ high school, studied English, and worked for an American couple as a maid and then befriended them. She also studied sewing and typing. In 1958, she got a job as a typist at the U.S. military base Fuchu Air Station, where she met her future husband Charles A. Hamer. Terri and Charles moved to the United States, living in many different places, settling in New Mexico, where they lived for 20 years, and then retiring to San Angelo in the early 1990s.