Oral history program preserves, promotes recorded memories

If 30-second sound bites are what you want, Troy Reeves is not your man. In his world, 30 minutes barely scratches the surface. As head of the Oral History Program, Reeves is the campus's go-to guy for the kind of in-depth conversations contained in more than 3,500 hours of audio interviews that preserve a substantial slice of the university's past.

Professors, chancellors, deans, administrators, staff, students and political leaders are among the 1,034 people who have shared their memories with the program's interviewers since its inception in 1971.

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