Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter

Title:

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter

Number of Pages:

32

Description:

The founding of the Alpha and Omega (A&O), later called the White Stars at Southwest Texas State Teachers College; the difference between the Black Stars and the White Stars; the purpose of the White Stars; biographical information regarding Horace Richards, Vernon Whiteside; LBJ's college career; biographical information on Walter Grady, Deason, Albert Harzke, Wilton Woods, Archie Wiles, Hollis Frazer; jobs handed down from one White Star to another; biographical information on Sidney "Sub" Pyland, Harvey Payne, Upton Breeden, Fenner Roth, Thomas Dunlap, Leissner and Jay Poth, Bill Milligan, Boyd Hill, Harvie Yoe, Denny Benman, Kenneth Folley, Chet Bain, Carlton Hicks, Zac Gray, Gus Schmeltzer, Osler Dunn, Leonard Bankhead, Charles Kinney Hancock, E.S. "Pat" Kelly, Max Mallick, Reagan Nesbitt, Justin Blakeney, Raymond Hicks, Henry Moore, J. Paul Secrest, J. Edwin Smith, Will Henry Burt, Hubbard Neely, Bert Horne, Gus Barr, Buster Brown, C.B. McNeil, Roy Swift; people from Wilson County; biographical information on Tommy Ogletree and Roy McWilliams.

Contributor:

Deason, Willard, 1905-1997

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library

See Also:

See all online interviews with Willard Deason

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details