Beth Millwood, Outreach Coordinator for the Southern Oral History Project (SOHP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will explain how to conduct an oral history interview in a lecture to be held Friday, September 7, at 3 p.m. in the Lynch Auditorium of the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business. The lecture is free and open to the public.”You don’t have to be famous for your life to be history,” said Nell Sigmon, an early interviewee of the SOHP. The South is especially rich in storytellers and for 27 years contributors to the SOHP have felt a sense of urgency that these memories be preserved on tape and in transcript.The SOHP collection comprises more than 2,500 interview audio tapes and related materials and is permanently archived for scholars and for use by the people of North Carolina at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s “Southern Collection.”The lecture kicks off a research project that Campbell professors Jaclyn Stanke and Tatiana Seeligman are involved in with the Hispanic community in the Harnett County area. The community research-based project uses undergraduate students to conduct interviews of Hispanic people in the area. The project will serve as a long term service learning component in the professors’ history and foreign language courses.”In the long run, we see this project as a permanent service of the university to a growing section of the community of North Carolina and as part of Campbell University’s mission to provide an exceptional and diverse education supported by Christian values,” said Seeligman.Photo Copy: Beth Millwood, Outreach Coordinator for the Southern Oral History Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will explain how to conduct oral history interviews at a lecture at Campbell University, Friday, Sept. 7 at 3 p.m.
Outreach Coordinator for Southern Oral History Project to speak at Campbell