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Davidson College -- Alumnae and alumni

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Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Interview with Karen Cabrera McDonlad '18, 2019 November 01

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Identifier: OHI-0260
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and transcript with Karen Cabrera McDonald, Davidson College class of 2018. During the interview, Karen Cabrera McDonald discusses the importance of the STRIDE program, serving on the executive board of OLAS, working with SIAD (Student Initiative for Academic Diversity), the need for programming for Spanish-speaking families, tensions between international students raised in Latin America versus Latinx students raised in the United States, work with the student group...
Dates: 2019 November 01
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Larry Dagenhart '53, 1998 January 20

 Item — Audiocassette box 10: Series RG19-01-01; Series RG19-01-02, Cassette case: Audio 242
Identifier: OHI-0069
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains interviews with Davidson College students and alumni/ae. These interviews document various aspects of Davidson College's history and culture. Some of the alumni/ae listed in this series also worked for Davidson College in various capacities. While this series primarily focuses on student and alumni/ae interviewees, similar interviews can also be found in the other oral history series and sub-groups.

Dates: 1998 January 20
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Leonard "Lenny" F. McAllister '93, 2009 November 07

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHI-0019
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lenny McAllister '93. Davidson College student Rayna McKenzie interviewed Leonard [Lenny] McAllister, Jr., Davidson College class of 1993, on November 7, 2009 on the Davidson College campus. McAllister discusses the differences between his experience as a student in the early 1990s and his experiences after he returned to complete his degree between 2000 and 2002 while raising two young children. McAllister talks about how he experienced racially-motivated threats...
Dates: 2009 November 07
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Leslie Alvarado '17, 2019 November 06

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Identifier: OHI-0265
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and transcript with Leslie Alvarado, Davidson College class of 2017. Alvarado grew up in Naples, FL before attending Davidson College as a mathematics major. In the interview, Alvarado discusses the STRIDE mentorship program, the presence of OLAS, the Bonner Scholars program, studying abroad in Ireland, bringing Latinx sororities and fraternities to campus, the presidential election, and how navigating predominantly white spaces impacted her as a woman of color....
Dates: 2019 November 06
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Leslie C. Brown '69, 2009 November 07

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHI-0017
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Leslie Brown '69. Meikaela Zwieryznski, Davidson College class of 2010, interviewed Leslie Brown, Davidson College class of 1969, on November 7, 2009 in Davidson, North Carolina. Leslie Brown was on the Davidson College campus for an alumni office event taking place that week. Brown discusses his experiences as one of the first black students enrolled at the college, his relationships with the local community and other students, academics and faculty dynamics, and...
Dates: 2009 November 07
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Luis Toledo '20, 2019 May 01

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Identifier: OHI-0297
Scope and Contents

This oral history interview is part of the Queer, Black, Intersectional Davidson Project. The interview was conducted by Lily Burdick '19 in 2018.

Dates: 2019 May 01
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Queer, Black, Intersectional Davidson project

Interview with Marie Lupe Guerrero ’12, 2019 December 17

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Identifier: OHI-0253
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Marie Lupe Guerrero, Davidson College class of 2012. Guerrero identifies as a first generation college student and Mexican-American. She is from Chicago, IL and discusses the sociocultural differences between Chicago and the rural area around Davidson College. While at Davidson, Guerrero was a Charles Scholar and participated in Davidson Outdoors, OLAS, and worked as a volunteer with the free clinic at the Ada Jenkins Center.

Dates: 2019 December 17
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Mbye Njie '04, 2020 October 01

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Identifier: OHI-0311
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Mbye Njie, Davidson College class of 2004. This oral history was conducted as part of the Stories Yet to be Told grant funded initiative. In his interview, Njie discusses his overall experience at Davidson College, his entrepreneurial work to combat police violence after graduation, when he and Jason Ford were falsely accused of a crime by a fellow student and college administration towards the end of his undergraduate years, racially-motivated inequities in the...
Dates: 2020 October 01
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Meg Boykin Kimmel '77, 2020 October 01

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Identifier: OHI-0276
Scope and Contents Meg Kimmel came to Davidson with her husband who landed his first job as a psychology professor. During the interview Meg discusses what it was like being a part of the first coed graduating class of Davidson. Her unique experience includes interactions with both students and faculty as a wife of a professor and what it was like being both pregnant and a mom while going to school at Davidson. Meg’s experiences add a distinctive glimpse into the life of one of the original female students at...
Dates: 2020 October 01
Found in: College Archives / Oral history Interviews of the History of Gender and Sexuality at Davidson College project / Oral history interviews of the Davidson College Women's History project

Interview with Meleena Philips '20, 2020 November 23

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Identifier: OHI-0310
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Meleena Phillips, Davidson College class of 2020. This interview was conducted as part of the Stories Yet to be Told grant funded initiative. In the interview, Phillips discusses the support she found in the student group Freeword, the need for better mental health support on campus, feelings of social isolation, student flagpole protests, the differences in culture between New York and North Carolina, the mentorship of Dr. Multhaup, and her work on her book...
Dates: 2020 November 23
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Melissa Guzman '11, 2020 March 14

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Identifier: OHI-0269
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview and transcript with Melissa Guzman, physics major and member of the Davidson College class of 2011. Guzman discusses her experiences as a biracial Colombian-American woman, freshman orientation programs like STRIDE and Davidson Odyssey, exploring personal identity through academics (including anthropology courses with Dr. Matt Samson), and her work as a founding member of FreeWord (a student group for poetry and performance).

Dates: 2020 March 14
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Melodie Mendez '13, 2019 November 24

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Identifier: OHI-0264
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and transcript with Melodie Mendez '13 conducted on November 24, 2019. During the interview Mendez discusses why she chose to attend Davidson College and the many organizations she participated in during her four years—including, Students Together Reaching for Individual Development and Education (STRIDE), Organization of Latin American (OLAS), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST), Bonner Scholars, and more. Mendez also recalls her time studying abroad in Ecuador,...
Dates: 2019 November 24
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Michele Manceaux '20, 2020 September 24

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Identifier: OHI-0312
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Michele Manceaux, Davidson College class of 2020. This oral history interview was conducted as part of the Stories Yet to be Told grant funded initiative. During the interview, Manceaux discusses her experiences on the soccer team, the nuances of Black diasporic experiences at Davidson, differences in finding community in Dallas, TX and at Davidson College, the impact of academic experiences on understanding racial identity, white allyship, her work advocating for...
Dates: 2020 September 24
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Minne Iwamoto '91 and Bob Hornsby '91, 2021 March 23

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Identifier: OHI-0281
Scope and Contents Minne Iwamoto graduated from Davidson College in 1991. She was an Economics major and has a career in public health. Bob Hornsby graduated from Davidson College in 1991. He was an Economics major and has a career in development economics. The interview was conducted by Elena Propst. Interviewer was in Davidson, NC, and Alums were in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Minne Iwamoto and Bob Hornsby discussed their experiences at Davidson College, dating life, hookup culture, contraception, and...
Dates: 2021 March 23
Found in: College Archives / Oral history Interviews of the History of Gender and Sexuality at Davidson College project / Oral history Interviews of the History of Love and Sexuality at Davidson project

Interview with Natasha Rivera '12, 2019 October 22

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Identifier: OHI-0263
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview and transcript with Natasha Rivera '12 conducted on October 22, 2019. During the interview Rivera discusses why she chose to attend Davidson College, how she found a sense of community at Davidson, and her experience being a charter member of the Upsilon Mu Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST).

Dates: 2019 October 22
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Olivia Ware '78, 2020 October 06

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Identifier: OHI-0270
Scope and Contents

Olivia Ware, Davidson College class of 1979, discusses her experience at Davidson College as a black female. She discusses academic life, dorm life (including a humorous experience with the bathrooms in Watts), social life (she was a member of Pax Eating House), and her experience after Davidson. She recalls overall a very fond college experience at Davidson. The interview was conducted as part of an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) grant-funded course led by Dr. Rose Stremlau.

Dates: 2020 October 06
Found in: College Archives / Oral history Interviews of the History of Gender and Sexuality at Davidson College project / Oral history interviews of the Davidson College Women's History project

Interview with Pablo Zevallos '16, 2019 November 02

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Identifier: OHI-0252
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview and transcript with Pablo Zevallos '16 conducted by Cassie Harding on November 2, 2019. During the interview Zevallos discusses why he chose to attend Davidson College, what he experienced while serving as Davidson’s first Latino Student Government Association (SGA) President, and the types of challenges he faced while holding office.

Dates: 2019 November 02
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Pablo Zevallos '16, 2019 April 16

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Identifier: OHI-0315
Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Lily Burdick.

Dates: 2019 April 16
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Patricia D. Cornwell '79, 1991 November 07

 Item — Audiocassette box 4: Series RG19-01-01; Series RG19-01-03, Cassette case: Audio 75
Identifier: OHI-0039
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains interviews with Davidson College students and alumni/ae. These interviews document various aspects of Davidson College's history and culture. Some of the alumni/ae listed in this series also worked for Davidson College in various capacities. While this series primarily focuses on student and alumni/ae interviewees, similar interviews can also be found in the other oral history series and sub-groups.

Dates: 1991 November 07
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Rasheedah Hasan '96, 2009 November 07

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OHI-0016
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Rasheedah Hasan, class of 1996. Davidson College student Shirley Akrasih interviewed Rasheedah Hasan, class of 1996, on November 7, 2009 in the Career Services Office on the Davidson College campus. Hasan discusses her experiences as a student in the early 1990s, offering a unique perspective as she started college at the age of 16. Hasan was a member of the Black Student Coalition and worked as a volunteer at the Ada Jenkins Center and the local hospital. She...
Dates: 2009 November 07
Found in: College Archives / Davidson College Collective Memory: oral history and interview collection / Davidson College Students and Alumni/ae oral histories and interviews

Interview with Rebecca "Becky" Contreras '19, 2019 December 10

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Identifier: OHI-0259
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and transcript with Rebecca "Becky" Contreras conducted on December 10, 2019. Becky Contreras graduated from Davidson College in 2019 as a political science and Latin American Studies double major. Contreras was born in Guatemala and states she identifies as Guatemalan in the interview. Contreras discusses how it felt being labeled as a person of color as an international student, experiences with the student group OLAS, the Bonner Scholars program, differences in...
Dates: 2019 December 10
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Renee Denise Fanuiel Blackwell '77, 2020 October 08

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Identifier: OHI-0278
Scope and Contents The following is an interview conducted by Davidson College students, Ross Hickman, McNeill Franklin, and Madeline Chanfrau, and narrated by Renee Denise Fanuiel Blackwell. Denise Blackwell was the first Black woman to graduate from the college in 1977. She graduated with a degree in Psychology. In the transcription, Ross, McNeill and Madeline pose questions to Blackwell about her experience as a student at Davidson. Blackwell details her involvement in ROTC (she was the first female student...
Dates: 2020 October 08
Found in: College Archives / Oral history Interviews of the History of Gender and Sexuality at Davidson College project / Oral history interviews of the Davidson College Women's History project

Interview with Richy Tovar '19, 2019 April 30

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Identifier: OHI-0257
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview and transcript with Richy Tovar, Davidson College class of 2019. In the interview, Tovar discusses the formation of Latin Greek societies at Davidson College. Tovar was Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc president, and also a founder of the organization on campus. This interview was conducted as part of Dr. Jane Mangan's HIS 259 course.

Dates: 2019 April 30
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the Nuestras Historias: Archiving Latinx Identity at Davidson College project

Interview with Sara Gebhardt '98, 2019 March 01

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Identifier: OHI-0236
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and transcript with Sara Gebhardt '98 conducted on March 1, 2019. Sara Gebhardt recounts her experience going from a largely liberal, diverse, and pluralistic environment in the suburbs of Washington D.C. to Davidson, which felt “20 years behind.” While at Davidson, she was a member of the field hockey team, studied abroad in Spain, and wrote for Libertas. During her sophomore year at Davidson, she wrote an editorial in the Davidsonian objecting to students’ erecting...
Dates: 2019 March 01
Found in: College Archives / Oral history interviews of the History of Jewishness at Davidson College project

Interview with Sue McAvoy '77, 2020 October 07

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Identifier: OHI-0279
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sue McAvoy. Sue McAvoy graduated from Davidson College in 1977. She was an Economics major, a hall counselor, played on the women’s tennis and field hockey teams, and worked for the school’s yearbook during all four years (eventually, as the Co-Editor her senior year). McAvoy discussed her experiences at Davidson College, as well as her experiences pre and post–Davidson. She recounted her experiences of athletics, academics, the yearbook, working as a Resident...
Dates: 2020 October 07
Found in: College Archives / Oral history Interviews of the History of Gender and Sexuality at Davidson College project / Oral history interviews of the Davidson College Women's History project

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