**For Immediate Release**
StoryCorps Conducts Interviews on Campus
-released by OPSU Campus Communications 08-23-06
Goodwell, Okla. — On Saturday,
August 19, several Oklahoma Panhandle State University
faculty and staff participated in interviews with StoryCorps,
a project of the non-profit group Sound Portraits Productions
of New York City. High Plains Public Radio (HPPR), the
National Public Radio voice of the high plains, partnered
with StoryCorps to produce the interviews. Elaine Davenport
and Ryan Murdock of StoryCorps facilitated the interviews
and Stacy Yates of HPPR in Amarillo also assisted in
the process.
Members of the StoryCorps staff travel
the country recording memoirs of unheralded Americans who
offer a wide range of personal stories that are preserved
and archived in the Library of Congress. Some of the stories
may be heard on National Public Radio, and local stories
have begun airing on HPPR Mondays at 7:30 a.m. during Morning
Edition and repeat at 6:45 p.m. during All Things Considered.
In the Guymon area, HPPR may be heard on 88.9 FM as
well as via online streaming at www.hppr.org.
Dr. Wayne Stewart, OPSU’s Dean of
Education interviewed three of the participants. OPSU President
Dave Bryant spoke about the history and future of OPSU;
Dr. Sara Richter, Dean of Liberal Arts, discussed the Santa
Fe Trail, a topic she continues to research and present
to civic groups; and Stewart also visited with OPSU’s
Chair of the Education Department, Dr. Pauline Hodges,
about the history of the No Man’s Land Museum. Debbie
Colson, director of the No Man’s Land Museum, interviewed
OPSU Professor Emeritus Harold Kachel about the pre-historic
and geologic history of the Panhandle. Colson also discussed
the No Man’s Land Historical Society with Judge Ron
Kincannon of Boise City.
OPSU is proud to be a part of StoryCorps and thanks the
Amarillo Area Foundation, the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce,
the Ambassador Hotel in Amarillo, Holiday Day Inn Express
and the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kans. for making
StoryCorps on the High Plains possible.
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