Blackman attended at Sangamon State University in 1975 at the downtown campus in the Leland Building. He received his Masters in the Public Administration program, and participated in the Graduate Public Service Internship ...

Hammes, teacher, discusses growing up in Wisconsin: his family, the Depression, and travels; his WWII service in Mississippi; WWII homefront; newspaper publishing; and Civil Service work. He also discusses his education: ...

Osborne was one of the first students to register at Sangamon State University in 1969 and graduate with a master’s degree in business. He recalls attending the “commuter campus” because there was no student housing and ...

Robert M. Wesley, the current Executive Director for Regional Medical Programs at the SIU School of Medicine, discusses his early life and experiences at SSU from 1970-1975. Wesley received his bachelor’s from the university ...

Moore, a former Illinois State Police trooper and Equal Opportunity Officer discusses his educational experience at Sangamon State University. He received an undergraduate degree in criminal justice and graduated with a ...

Wilson discusses his coal mining experiences in southern Illinois: working with his father, loading coal, wages, cars, mules, a hoisting engineer's duties, boilers, cages, being a boss, accidents, the Depression, roofbolting ...

Koniak recalls her involvement with the Progressive Miners Women's Auxiliary in Benld, Illinois. She also recalls the Depression, washhouses, and miner's buckets. Interview by Barbara Herndon and Nick Cherniavsky, 1974. 1 ...

Dawe, former coal miner and director of the Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals, discusses coal mining in Franklin County, Illinois: coal companies and production, mine shaft support, mine structures, safety, ...

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