The Promenade

Oral History Interviews

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  • Ethel Berry and Willis Charles (Sound Cassette and Video 2004) (Daughters of C.A. Johnson, Educator)
  • Ethel M. Bolden (Sound Cassette and Video 1995) (Former RCPL Board Member, Librarian, Mother of Charles Bolden, Astronaut)
  • Thomasina Briggs and Elnora Robinson (Sound Cassette and Video 2001) (Longtime Waverly Neighborhood Residents)
  • Dr. Noble Cooper, Sr. and Dr. Noble Cooper, Jr. (Sound Cassette and Video 2002) (RCPL Board -Jr. 1995-2009, Secretary 1996-2000, Chair 2000-2002, 2003-2005, Dentists-Waverly Neighborhood)
  • Mabel Craft (Video 1998) (Former RCPL Employee-Waverly 1960-1971, Main-1971-1978, Northway Branch Manager 1978-1990, Substitute 1991-1995)
  • Horace Crouch (Sound Cassette and Video 1997) (Doolittle’s Raiders-WWII)
  • Jane Guignard Curry (Sound Cassette and Video 1999) (Longtime Columbia, S.C. Resident)
  • Joe Daggett (Sound Cassette and Video 2006) ( Local Broadcaster)
  • Alderman Duncan (Sound Cassette and Video 1992) (Journalist-Aiken County)
  • Family Shelter (Sound Cassette and Video 2004) (Local Social Service Organization)
  • Bob Fulton (Sound Cassette-1985 and 2005 and Video 2005) (Broadcaster, Former Voice of the Gamecocks-USC)
  • Bob Hickman (Sound Cassette and Video 2006) (Local Broadcaster)
  • Daniel W. Hollis (Sound Cassette and Video 1999) (USC History Professor, Author, RCPL Board Member)
  • Derial Jackson (Sound Cassette and Video 1995) (Former RCPL Employee-1947, 1964, 1965, Library Assistant 1967-1986, Substitute 1992-1995)
  • Lou Kaplan (Sound Cassette and Video 2006) (Owner of House of Fabrics, Actor)
  • Julian Kennedy (Sound Cassette 1995) ( Former RCPL Employee, Volunteer)
  • Anna King (Sound Cassette and Video 1993) (Former RCPL Employee-1967-1979,RCPL Director 1969-1979)
  • Helen Law (Sound Cassette 1994) (Former RCPL Employee, ClerkTypist-Technical Services Department 1956-1994)
  • Mrs. Moe Levy (Sound Cassette and Video 2002) (Entrepreneur and Widow of Founder of Moe Levy’s Store, Longtime Columbia, S.C. Resident)
  • Mary G. Lilliewood (Sound Cassette and Video 1995) (Longtime Columbia Resident/Park Street Area)
  • Eliza Barron Macaulay (Sound Cassette and Video 1995) (Former Former RCPL Employee 1957)
  • Carrie Allen McCray (Sound Cassette and Video 1999) (Author, Poet, RCPL Bostick Award Winner)
  • Julius McKay (Sound Cassette and Video 1996) (Former RCPL Board 1980-1995, Chair 1981-1994, Local Attorney)
  • Roberta Jordan Meares (Sound Cassette and Video 1999) (Former RCPL Employee 1931-1939, 1976, Helped set up libraries in Columbia area schools)
  • John Allen Middleton (Sound Cassette and Video 1996) (Descendant of Keziah Brevard’s Slaves at her Columbia, S.C. Plantation)
  • Ruth Miller (Sound Cassette and Video 1991) (Teacher, Recognition for Serving Church and State)
  • Martha Monteith (Sound Cassette and Video 2005) (Pioneer in Speech Pathology in Richland I School District, Sister-in-law of Civil Rights Activist Modjeska Simkins)
  • Olympia Residents (Sound Cassette and Video 2000) (Columbia, S.C. Neighborhood Group)
  • E. Perry Palmer (Sound Cassette and Video 2002) (Local Funeral Home Director)
  • Robert Isadore Phillips (Sound Cassette and Video 2001) (Longtime Columbia Resident, Employee of the South Carolina Tax Commission)
  • Richland County Public Library Staff (Sound Cassette and Video 2003)
    • Executive Director-C. David Warren (9/1/79 to the present)
    • Deputy Director-Helen Ann Rawlinson (12/4/78 to the present; Dep.Dir. 1985; Chief Adult Services 1982-1985; Sr. Adult Librarian 1981-1982, Children’s Librarian 1978-1981)
    • Head, Extension Services-Gerda Kahn (9/1/70-1/16/04; Head of Children’s Services 1970-1974; Chief, Extension Services 1974-2004)
    • Head, Children’s Services-Ginger Shuler (8/5/74 to the present; Chief, youth services 1975-present; Cooper Branch Librarian 1974-1975)
    • Business Manager-Paulette Rowell (1/26/66-12/30/04; Business Manager)
  • Leon Ritter (Sound Cassette and Video 2000) (Local Business Owner, Furrier)
  • Dave Rogers (Sound Cassette and Video 2006) (Local Broadcaster)
  • Kenneth Sandiford (Sound Cassette and Video 1999) (High School Teacher and Coach, Associate College Professor)
  • Jim Seay (Sound Cassette and Video 2005) (Broadcaster)
  • Modjeska Simkins (Sound Cassette 1985) (Civil Rights Activist)
  • Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Taylor (Sound Cassette and Video 1999) (Surgeon, Historian, Conservation and Environmental Activities)
  • Gene Upright (Sound Cassette and Video 2006) (Local Broadcaster)
  • Edmund Yaghjian (Sound Cassette and Video 1985) (Artist, USC Art Department Head)

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