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Title: Interview with William J. "Bill" Maney, 2009 May 19
Date(s): 2009-05-19
Contributor(s): Maney, William J., 1930- (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: Maney describes the work of various family members involved with DuPont. His father, William Maney, Sr., and his uncle, John Maney, left New Jersey to move to Old Hickory, where a smokeless powder plant existed to help the World War I effort in 1915-1918. His uncle served in the military and then returned to DuPont after the war, ultimately retiring in Delaware. Maney's father moved to the paint business in DuPont in Arlington, New Jersey, in the 1920s. He was laid off, but then received the...
Show moreManey describes the work of various family members involved with DuPont. His father, William Maney, Sr., and his uncle, John Maney, left New Jersey to move to Old Hickory, where a smokeless powder plant existed to help the World War I effort in 1915-1918. His uncle served in the military and then returned to DuPont after the war, ultimately retiring in Delaware. Maney's father moved to the paint business in DuPont in Arlington, New Jersey, in the 1920s. He was laid off, but then received the opportunity to move to Waynesboro, Va. to work as a foreman in the Rayon industry, hired by DuPont for the third time, retiring in 1958.

Addressing his own experience, Maney details his various engineering projects, including the coal-fired boiler at Cape Fear, his movement to maintenance, and his time playing on, coaching, and managing the DuPont basketball team. Maney also discusses the work environment at DuPont, his personal struggles with alcoholism, and his post-retirement building work.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20090519_Maney
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Interview with Jim Porter, 2014 September 23
Date(s): 2014-09-23
Contributor(s): Porter, Jim (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
Description: Jim Porter discusses his career in the DuPont Engineering Department. He began his service at Chattanooga in Qiana development. This product was discontinued and Porter mentions two of the problems he was familiar with. Porter details the various impacts the businesses had on the department, the response of the engineering management to the businesses, and other functions that were an integral contributor to DuPont's success. During the period, the Engineering Department supplied the...
Show moreJim Porter discusses his career in the DuPont Engineering Department. He began his service at Chattanooga in Qiana development. This product was discontinued and Porter mentions two of the problems he was familiar with. Porter details the various impacts the businesses had on the department, the response of the engineering management to the businesses, and other functions that were an integral contributor to DuPont's success. During the period, the Engineering Department supplied the equipment for the unique facilities DuPont's required to maintain its market position. Porter also discusses the later changes made to the project management systems in order to meet business needs.
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Collection ID: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
Hagley ID: 2010215_20140923_Porter
Collection: Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department

Title: Unintended Consequences
Date(s): 2009
Creator: Hagley Museum and Library
Description: Conference sponsored by the Hagley Fellows of the University of Delaware
Collection ID: Hagley Publications Archive
Hagley ID: 2009hagleyfellows
Collection: Hagley Museum and Library publications archive

Title: Interview with Ken White, part 2, 2019 June 27
Date(s): 2019-06-27
Contributor(s): White, Ken, 1923-2020 (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Strunk, Nicole (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: Part 2 of 2. In this interview, Ken White continues to describe his career as an industrial designer on a project by project basis. Most of the projects he describes are bookstores on university campuses and military bases. He provides an in-depth analysis of the Boston university bookstore project. He also talks about his work designing Duke University's Gothic Bookstore.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with Ken White (Accession 2023.203)
Hagley ID: 2023203_20190627_White_interview
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Marshall Johnson, part 2, 2018 October 24
Date(s): 2018-10-24
Contributor(s): Johnson, Marshall B., 1938- (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than...
Show moreIn this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than building the product from scratch.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with Marshall Johnson (Accession 2023.204)
Hagley ID: 2023204_20181024_Johnson_interview_002
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Ken White, part 1, 2019 June 26
Date(s): 2019-06-26
Contributor(s): White, Ken, 1923-2020 (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Strunk, Nicole (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: Part 1 of 2. In this interview Ken White discusses the early parts of his life and career as an industrial designer. White talks about his military service, his interest in design and how he learned his trade. He also talks about his early career contacts with Raymond Loewy. White goes on to describe his creative process and approach to design. He does this by describing several different projects in detail.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with Ken White (Accession 2023.203)
Hagley ID: 2023203_20190626_White_interview
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Marshall Johnson, part 1, 2018 October 24
Date(s): 2018-10-24
Contributor(s): Johnson, Marshall B., 1938- (interviewee), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than...
Show moreIn this interview, Marshall Johnson tells the story of how he became an industrial designer after he read about it on a pamphlet at school; the various companies he's worked fo over the years; some of his favorite projects inlcuding a research ship and a cookie gun; he describes how he used his skills to aid charitable causes. He explains the ways in which industrial design is different from engineering; he says designers envision how a customer might expect to use a product rather than building the product from scratch.
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Collection ID: Oral history interview with Marshall Johnson (Accession 2023.204)
Hagley ID: 2023204_20181024_Johnson_interview_001
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with James Cortada, 2018 June 7
Date(s): 2018-06-07
Contributor(s): Cortada, James W., Dr. (interviewee), Williams, Amrys O. (interviewer), Spohn, Benjamin (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: In this interview, James Cortada discusses the collection of computing history books that he donated to Hagley. He describes how he acquired the collection, his philsophy on collecting, and some of what he feels are the most important titles in the collection.
Collection ID: Oral history interview with James Cortada (Accession 2018.227)
Hagley ID: 2018227_20180607_Cortada_interview
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Rosetta McKinley Henderson, 2022 August 6-7 [transcript]
Date(s): 2022-08-06, 2022-08-07
Contributor(s): Henderson, Rosetta McKinley (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her...
Show moreDuring this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her joining the debate team and debating against Barbara Jordan. She mentions teaching Sunday school and pledging at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She then describes participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, attending meetings and hearing Martin Luther King, Jr., speak.

Henderson then discusses earning her Master's degree at Fiske University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied under Dr. Samuel Massie. She describes an incident of eating at a segregated restaurant while with her boyfriend and a professor. She then moves on to discussing her pre-doctoral research experience at Oregon State University, for which she had received a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Henderson goes on to describe her time at Ohio University pursuing a PhD and an incident in which a professor accused her of cheating when she needed to turn a desk around as she was left-handed. She describes her decision to leave the program and her job search, which was aided by a supportive professor. She mentions a job opportunity disappearing upon the recruiter learning her race and the offers she received from Corningware, Eastman Kodak, Midland, and finally DuPont.

Henderson then mentions moving to Wilmington, her research at DuPont, and an incident when a lawyer used a racial slur in a meeting. She goes into detail about the difficulty she faced finding an apartment in a segregated Wilmington and the assistance she received from colleagues. She then discusses meeting her husband, James L. Henderson, and his career as an architect in Washington, D.C. She describes having two children and the accommodations her supervisor made when she returned to the workplace. She finally discusses her time with DuPont Merck, managing the Upward Bound program at Delaware Tech and teaching a laboratory class at Neumann University.

Moving on from discussing her career, Henderson describes being active in her church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the oldest African American Catholic church in Wilmington. She then discusses her siblings, including her sister Edith Rasberry, who Henderson recalls being the only African-American bail bondswoman in the state of Michigan and who was married to Ted Rasberry, the owner of the baseball team the Grand Rapids Black Sox. She also describes her brother Harry, who was a pilot and engineer; her brothers Roy and Brady, who owned a large demolition company; her sister Eddie Alberia, who was a surgeon; and her brother Leonard, who was a butcher.

The interviewer, Dr. Jeanne D. Nutter, then asks Henderson to revisit a few items, including her job as a teenager cleaning house for a White woman, her father's car accident, Dr. Samuel Massie, her patents, and taking a course in heterocyclic compounds at the University of Houston.
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Collection ID: Black Delawarean STEM pioneers oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20220806_Henderson_transcript
Collection: Oral History

Title: Interview with Rosetta McKinley Henderson, 2022 August 6-7
Date(s): 2022-08-06, 2022-08-07
Contributor(s): Henderson, Rosetta McKinley (interviewee), Nutter, Jeanne D. (interviewer), Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (originator)
Description: During this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her...
Show moreDuring this interview, Rosetta McKinley Henderson details her early life in Fairhope, Alabama. She provides several childhood anecdotes, such as her parents' meeting, her brother, her pet turtle, her father being treated in a segregated hospital after a car accident, family garden, and going to church. She describes elementary school at Anna T Jean School and then details college at Alabama State in Montgomery. She discusses changing her major from biology, her job at the library, and her joining the debate team and debating against Barbara Jordan. She mentions teaching Sunday school and pledging at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She then describes participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, attending meetings and hearing Martin Luther King, Jr., speak.

Henderson then discusses earning her Master's degree at Fiske University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied under Dr. Samuel Massie. She describes an incident of eating at a segregated restaurant while with her boyfriend and a professor. She then moves on to discussing her pre-doctoral research experience at Oregon State University, for which she had received a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Henderson goes on to describe her time at Ohio University pursuing a PhD and an incident in which a professor accused her of cheating when she needed to turn a desk around as she was left-handed. She describes her decision to leave the program and her job search, which was aided by a supportive professor. She mentions a job opportunity disappearing upon the recruiter learning her race and the offers she received from Corningware, Eastman Kodak, Midland, and finally DuPont.

Henderson then mentions moving to Wilmington, her research at DuPont, and an incident when a lawyer used a racial slur in a meeting. She goes into detail about the difficulty she faced finding an apartment in a segregated Wilmington and the assistance she received from colleagues. She then discusses meeting her husband, James L. Henderson, and his career as an architect in Washington, D.C. She describes having two children and the accommodations her supervisor made when she returned to the workplace. She finally discusses her time with DuPont Merck, managing the Upward Bound program at Delaware Tech and teaching a laboratory class at Neumann University.

Moving on from discussing her career, Henderson describes being active in her church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, the oldest African American Catholic church in Wilmington. She then discusses her siblings, including her sister Edith Rasberry, who Henderson recalls being the only African-American bail bondswoman in the state of Michigan and who was married to Ted Rasberry, the owner of the baseball team the Grand Rapids Black Sox. She also describes her brother Harry, who was a pilot and engineer; her brothers Roy and Brady, who owned a large demolition company; her sister Eddie Alberia, who was a surgeon; and her brother Leonard, who was a butcher.

The interviewer, Dr. Jeanne D. Nutter, then asks Henderson to revisit a few items, including her job as a teenager cleaning house for a White woman, her father's car accident, Dr. Samuel Massie, her patents, and taking a course in heterocyclic compounds at the University of Houston.
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Collection ID: Black Delawarean STEM pioneers oral history project (Accession 2021.202)
Hagley ID: 2021202_20220806_Henderson_video
Collection: Oral History

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