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Interview with Bobby Holcomb

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Interview with Bobby Holcomb

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Description

Bobby Holcomb, a student at Western Carolina College in the 1950s, discusses a variety a topics: his reasons for attending Western; playing baseball and basketball under Jim Gudger; life as a student and an athlete; social life on campus; and initiation rituals for student-atheletes into the Monogram Club.
Details
- Creator
  - Holcombe, Bobby
- Contributor
  - Carroll, Tonya
- Format
- Type
  - Sound
  - Text
- Date
  - Date interview: 2009-11-09
  - Date: 1950s;
  - Date digitized: 2014-12-04
- Extent
  - Duration: 0:48:45
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574
- Identifier
  - HL_HIST474_Carroll_Holcomb_2009-11-09_audio
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

Object

Description

Bobby Holcomb, a student at Western Carolina College in the 1950s, discusses a variety a topics: his reasons for attending Western; playing baseball and basketball under Jim Gudger; life as a student and an athlete; social life on campus; and initiation rituals for student-atheletes into the Monogram Club.
Details
- Creator
  - Holcombe, Bobby
- Contributor
  - Carroll, Tonya
- Format
  - Sound recordings
  - Interviews
- Type
  - Sound
- Date
  - Date interview: 2009-11-09
  - Date: 1950s;
  - Date digitized: 2014-12-04
- Extent
  - Duration: 00:48:45 (sound recording)
  - Duration: 13 pages (transcript)
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574
- Identifier
  - HL_HIST474_Carroll_Holcomb_2009-11-09
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

Interview with Bobby Holcomb

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