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Call Number OH2078Date 2017Contents single recording; 91 minutes, 30 secondsDescription Zeb Dennis grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved to Boulder County in 1984, ready to live his dream of being a cowboy after having been a technician and service planner for IBM. He recalls his years of working as a farrier and as a cowboy on Boulder County ranches. He also writes cowboy poetry and has won a “Cowboy Poet of the Year” award. He talks about the history of cowboy poetry and recites two of his poems in the interview: “The Lesson,” featuring Bud Heil, at 47:16, and another about rancher John Hall at 76:05. He worked on the three largest ranches in Boulder County: Heil Ranch, Hall Ranch and Caribou Ranch. He tells amusing and illuminating anecdotes about working on these ranches and about the cowboy way of life.
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Call Number OH2079Date 2017Contents single recording 152 minutes, 36 secondsDescription This interview is part of a series about football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, on one team, and campus and City of Boulder police officers on the other team. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. Ben Janacek, a former Boulder police officer, talks about attending the first of the Hairy Bacon Bowl football games as a spectator. Most of his interview, however, centers on his jobs as a City of Boulder police officer and, later, detective. He worked for the Boulder police department from 1969 to 1980. He talks about what it was like to work for that department, interactions with the hippie population of the late 1960s and 1970s, policing the anti-war riots in Boulder, and describes numerous arrests and other police activities during his tenure there. He also talks about his military service in Vietnam, which preceded his time in Boulder, and his career in policing and security work after he left the Boulder police force.
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Call Number OH2080Date 2017Contents single recording; 135 minutes, 35 secondsDescription Although this interview is part of the “Hairy Bacon Bowl” series, Jerry Jacobson was not involved with the football games in any way. He was interviewed, rather, for his involvement in and understanding of many of the cultural changes that manifested during that time period. He starts by describing his childhood in New York City during the Depression. He contrasts the hobos and economically displaced people of the 1930s with the hippies of the 1960s and the positive feelings about government during the WWII era versus recent attitudes toward government. He goes on to tell about his training as an M.D. and a psychiatrist and his move to Boulder in 1958 when he was one of only three psychiatrists in town. He practiced psychiatry in Boulder for 52 years, from 1958-2009. He talks about the changes in mental health services over the half century that he was in practice, including deinstitutionalization of patients in mental health hospitals and the increasing use of drugs to treat mental health issues. He focuses on the 1960s and ‘70s in Boulder, talking about the hippie movement and anti-Vietnam-War sentiment, the questioning of authority, and the ways in which the younger generation separated themselves from older people. He reflects on the ways in which the Hairy Bacon Bowl football games between the police and counterculture students grew out of these cultural tensions and was a positive way of dealing with them. He touches on race relations in Boulder in the 1960s and discusses general changes in Boulder from the 1950s on.
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Call Number OH2081Date 2016Contents single recording 2 hours, 54 minutes, 32 secondsDescription This interview is part of a series about football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, on one team, and campus and City of Boulder police officers on the other team. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. Fergus Stone moved to Boulder in the early 1960s as a high school student. He attended the University of Colorado and has lived in Boulder or Boulder County thereafter. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and has spent many years involved in the music business. This interview only touches briefly on the Hairy Bacon Bowl games, but he is able to paint a detailed picture of life in Boulder at that time. He discusses Prohibition in Boulder, which continued into the late 1960s; his high school years at the original Fairview High School; hippie culture in Boulder, including the influx of hippies into Boulder in 1968 and the STP Family; drug culture at that time; rebellions against uniformity; police enforcement of drug laws; anti-war protests; police-community relations and occasional police violence. He reflects on how The Hairy Bacon Bowl games affected police relations with the younger generation during the 1960s-1970s and speculates on how a similar effort might or might not be effective as a tool to use in today’s society.
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Call Number OH2082Date 2016Contents single recording: 1 hour, 22 minutes, 34 secondsDescription This interview is part of a series about football games, collectively known as the Hairy Bacon Bowl, that were played during the first half of the 1970s at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The teams were made up of university students, many of whom identified with hippie culture and/or anti-war beliefs, on one team, and campus and City of Boulder police officers on the other team. The goal was to ameliorate tensions between the two groups. Russ Vanderboom completed part of his undergraduate education at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the early 1970s after having completed two years of college in Wisconsin followed by a year-long stint in the Marine Corps with the Defense Information School. He talks about what it was like to be an older student and a veteran at the university in the early 1970s, a time of much anti-war sentiment in the country. While a student at CU, he played in the fall 1971 Hairy Bacon Bowl, which he describes as good-hearted fun between two groups that previously had experienced a fair amount of tension between them. He talks about various permutations in what it meant to be a hippie—from those with drug involvement on the one hand to those who tried to live according to ideals of “clean living” on the other hand. He later pursued a career that blended cancer research with journalism and public relations for cancer research. He also discusses his novel, The Good Guy List, which was published in 2014.
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Call Number OH2083Date 2017Contents Single recording; 1 hour, 26 minutes, 23 secondsDescription Hank Troy is a pianist for the Chautauqua silent film series. This oral history focuses on his musical life, detailing the people and places that had the most influence on his career, leading up to Chautauqua; family and home life also get discussed. Troy recollects his childhood, his introduction to piano, his instruction and development, the social aspects of playing piano—versus playing outside, for example—and the growth of his interests and taste in music. He talks about living in Germany as an exchange student in his senior year of high school, noting the musical and cultural differences. Troy eventually made his way to Denver and played piano for theater, then joined the Queen City Jazz Band. He tells about how he got involved with Chautauqua silent films, describes memorable incidents, and explains his approach to and process for creating the accompaniments. The interview concludes with Troy playing piano and demonstrating musical moods that would surface in a typical silent film.
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Call Number OH2084Date 2016Contents single recording; 35 minutes, 33 secondsDescription Marjorie Jordan, a long-time resident of Erie, talks about her life growing up as a coal miner’s daughter in Erie. She talks about daily life in Erie when she was a child: school, swimming in Boulder Creek, movies, activities, doctors, the fire and police departments, businesses, women as homemakers, and the miners’ work and way of life. She discusses the culture shaped by The Depression during her childhood and the changes that have taken place in Erie during the time she has lived there. She talks about the Coal Miners’ Memorial she helped get built, and about the role that miners played in the town.
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Call Number OH2085Date 2017Contents single recording; 64 minutes, 42 secondsDescription Marcia Lattanzi-Licht describes her involvement in the hospice movement as it began in Boulder County in the 1970s. She describes hospice principles and the history of hospice. She then details the various programs, resources, and education designed for the dying, the bereaved, and for other community members who might come into contact with the bereaved individuals, such as law enforcement officials and chaplains. She details the necessary skills of patience, care, compassion for individuals at end-of-life as well as for their caregivers, which provide support and meaning for all involved with hospice. She explains that there are not-for-profit and for-profit hospice organizations in Boulder County and discusses how they differ from each other. She also discusses the difference between hospice care and palliative care services and how each approach is used for different situations.
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Call Number OH2086Date 2017Contents single recording; 52 minutes, 32 secondsDescription Physician and oncologist Alan Snyder describes his involvement in the founding of Boulder Hospice at a time when hospice services were virtually unknown in the United States and unavailable in Colorado. He was the medical director of the Boulder Hospice from 1976 to 1988. Because Snyder’s medical practice involved treating many children with leukemia at a time that the expected survival rate was zero, and he became intimately familiar with the difficulties for patients and their families when death is imminent. He and a group of dedicated volunteers demonstrated that hospice should be an integral part of the health care system.
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Call Number OH2087Date 2017Contents single recording; 36 minutes, 21 secondsDescription Kathryn Oakes, earlier known as Kitty Riddle, was a founder and the first director of volunteers of Boulder Hospice, now called TRU Community Care. She talks about her family background and how it prepared her to work with her friend Beau Bohart Rezendes to found a hospice in Boulder in 1976. She discusses the philosophy and mission of hospice; the role of volunteers, nursing staff, and community support; and the hospice home program vs the in-patient facility. She also talks about how hospice has changed and grown over the years.
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Call Number OH2088Date 2017Contents single recording; 61 minutes, 35 secondsDescription Beau Rezendes was one of the founders of Boulder Hospice [Beau Bohart when founding Hospice]. She helped shepherd it through changing notions of its place in the community. She discusses educating physicians and community members in order to build support for hospice, explaining how regulations and funding might affect hospice, and the place hospice holds in the natural cycle of life. She also describes work to help create other hospices across Colorado and nationally and to secure insurance reimbursement as a source of hospice funding. She describes her marriage to and professional partnership with Dennis Rezendes. She recounts the changes in the organization that started as Boulder Hospice; went through a series of name, program and location changes; and now is called TRU Hospice. She speculates about possible future changes in the hospice movement. And finally, she reflects on what has been most meaningful throughout her life.
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Call Number OH2089Date 2017Contents single recording; 61 minutes, 13 secondsDescription Dean Fogerty talks about his nearly fifty-year career in the tech industry in Boulder, first for IBM and then for Ricoh after it bought out a division of IBM. Fogerty discusses the changing company culture and work environment throughout the years, major projects and advances, and the company’s place within Boulder and the tech world as a whole. He especially focuses on his work with printers, his international travels working for trade shows, and the communications innovations that he and his team made during his tenure.