| Summary: | interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton and James M. SoRelle on 4 occasions from 26 July to 24 August 1983 in Waco, Texas. 4 264 pages; index Sam Newman was social studies coordinator for the Waco Independent School District (WISD) during the first racial desegregation of schools; family history; early life; education; family move to Tientsin, China; Great Depression; family move to San Francisco; military enlistment; memories of San Antonio, Texas; enlistment in U.S. Army Air Corps; Chukchi Peninsula reconnaissance; transfer to San Francisco; New Deal programs; promotion to officer status; marriage; assignment to New Guinea; transfers to San Angelo, Texas, and Barksdale Air Force Base; work at FlyTAF; residence in Waco, Texas; personnel problems at Randolph Air Force Base; assignment to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, and to San Bernardino, California; retirement to Waco; approach to personnel management; enrollment in Baylor University (BU); characterization of BU faculty; first teaching experiences; evaluation of Waco Independent School District (WISD); racial desegregration of WISD; promotion to assistant principal at University Junior High School; completion of master's degree, BU; promotion to social studies coordinator, WISD; teaching, BU; duties as social studies coordinator; characterizations of Avery Downing and Kenneth McGee; support for the Heart of Texas Study of American Heritage; community reaction to WISD desegration; problems at Lake Air Junior High School; collaboration on Texas history book; research and writing of history of Waco public schools.
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