Memories
People
Dani - Teen Volunteer
Teen Volunteer, Hannah interviewed me about my experience here in Central Florida. We spoke about my life in Miami and Orlando and also about the things I enjoy doing in Central Florida such as the scenery, amusement parks and the...
Places
Underwater Sound Research Division of the Naval Research Laboratory
ABOVE: September 4th, 2011 photo of Vincent and Arline Benedetti at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando.
Underwater Sound Research Division of the Naval Research Laboratory
With a $3.5 million dollar budget, three research facilities, and physicists en...
Topics
The Oral History Program
The Oral History Program
In the early 1970s Hatabel Hyer (a member of one of Orlando's oldest families) was interested in recording the history of our community and, taking a portable recorder into the homes of older residents to record their...
Organizations
Naval Training Equipment Center Brings Technological Research & Development to Orlando
ABOVE: Photo of Dr. Benjamin Patz, computer engineer, electrical engineer, research scientist. Dr. Benjamin Patz's scientific contributions to our area include working in the GENESYS Program at Cape Canaveral, Lockheed Martin, teaching at the Naval Training E...
People
Jane Alexander Barker
Jane Alexander Barker, Born in Manhattan, New York on February 20, 1916, departed on December 10, 2010 and resided in Monterey, California. Jane Alexander Barker, 94, died Dec 10, 2010 in Monterey, California, with her family close at hand.
Born in Manhatt...
Places
Orange Groves, Rattlesnakes, and a Lynching
ABOVE IMAGE: 1967 photo of Dr. Benjamin W. Patz, center, in a meeting with Martin engineers, management, and research scientists on the Solar Probe Project at Martin Marietta in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Phil Gregory, engineer, is seated to the far left. Dr. Do...
People
Mary Branham
Mary Branham - In this recording about Mary Branham made by her great nephew, John Abberger, John states that his great aunt "lived her whole life" in a residency on the shores of Lake Lucerne (her parents moved here in...
People
GENESYS, Graduate Engineering Education System
Research scientist Dr. Benjamin Patz came to Cape Canaveral to teach GENESYS, Graduate Engineering Education System in the 1960s. Dr. Patz describes the state of the art system funded by the Florida legislature using technology to connect students and faculty...
People
Teresa Jacobs, Orange County Mayor
Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs discusses her life in Orlando, how much the city has changed, and her favorite local places to go.
Events
Remembering Dorothy Lumley Melrose and the Melrose Family
Memories of Dorothy Lumley Melrose and the Melrose family are shared by some of the family's lifelong friends, including Alan Goforth, Richard Swann, Jane Newsom Beaty, Rodney Kincaid, Ron Strickler, Charlie Wells, and Cecil Moore. Recorded on April 16, 2012,...
Organizations
"St. James has deep, deep roots in the culture of the Orange County community..."
ABOVE: 1972 photo of Fr. Domingo Gonzalez with the Cursillo group. Fr. Domingo Gonzalez was the first Hispanic priest at St. James and at one time St. James was the only church in Orlando that provided a Catholic Mass in Spanish for...
People
Salk vs. Sabin: The Waterlogs
ABOVE: May 25, 2008 photo of Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Calculus instructor at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando.
In the evenings they would have famous mathematicians and scientists who would come...Linus Pauling came and he was a Nobel Prize winner...
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