Memories
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Confirmation at St. Michael's Episcopal Church
ABOVE featured image: December 18, 1966 photo of Confirmation Mass at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park.
ABOVE: March 16, 1958 photo of Confirmation celebration at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. Pictured are Atwill, Kim Millitz...
People
Ella Brown Clark
African-Ameican Ella Brown Clark was born in Orlando on November 9, 1893. Interviewed on May 22, 1975. We are grateful for the Orange County Regional History Center's making this recording available for Orlando Memory.
Part 1: Ella of her family and...
Places
Natural Springs of Central Florida
Florida has more than 700 springs. The majority of springs bubble up from the Florida Aquifer and are located north of I-4. However, the Orlando area has many beautiful springs that are rich in history. These springs include Wekiva (Wekiwa)...
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Cutting Edge Engineering From the Early Days of FTU to the UCF Achievers of Today
ABOVE: Photo of Dr. Benjamin Patz, computer engineer, electrical engineer, research scientist.
UCF (FTU) would be starting in 69. At that time we were called electrical engineering and computer engineering. It was one department. When we went out there first it...
People
Elizabeth Abbott Christ
Elizabeth Abbott Christ, widow of Dr. Calvin. D. Christ, a local physician / surgeon for many years. Dr. Christ and Elizabeth Abbott were married at Moorestown, New Jersey in 1911.
Her father, George Abbott, was a minister in the Society of...
Places
Joseph S. Guernsey on the Future of Orlando: Then & Now
I think not only is the future extremely bright for Orlando, but I think it is likely to become someday the largest city in Florida... in this excerpt from an oral history interview on May 26, 2012 Mr. Joseph S....
People
Physicist Robert J. Bobber, Sr. Hero of Underwater Sound Lab
Robert Bobber was considered a hero locally and a scientific leader internationally. Bobber was invited to lecture at MIT and a NATO Advanced Study Institute, as well as teaching graduate courses at the University of Central Florida and the University of F...
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At the Launch: Eyewitness to Central Florida Space History
ABOVE: Dr. Benjamin Patz, computer engineer, electrical engineer, research scientist.
At that time they were having launches, it seemed like a couple a week. There was a tremendous amount of launch activity. You could go out and you could see a...
Places
United States Post Office in Orlando, Florida
ABOVE: September 1st, 1917 photo of the lobby finish of the United States Post Office in downtown Orlando.
Historic photos of the site for the United States Post Office in downtown Orlando, circa 1917.
The contractor for the project was Westchester Enginee...
Organizations
St. James Cathedral... An Opportunity to Serve
"However you can volunteer to help someone enriches your life and makes it better," Mary Jane Sevick shares in this excerpt from an oral history interview at St. James Cathedral on August 15, 2011. She and her husband, Frank Sevick,...
People
Fanny and Donald Cheney
Interview with Fanny and Donald Cheney
Hatabel Hyer interviewed Judge Cheney and his wife Fanny Sophia Robinson Cheney on June 20, 1974. Mrs. Cheney moved to Orlando from Sanford as a child with her parents. After attending public schools in the...
Places
IEEE & Computer Technology in Central Florida
"Who wants to get a computer? Nobody volunteered so I was elected." So I put out a proposal to get a computer system at UCF and we got bids from Data General and Digital Equipment Corporation...
Remembering the assembly language, programming,...
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