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Oral history interview with Louise Cole, March 16, 1995 interview G-0157, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Louise Cole, March 16, 1995 interview G-0157, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview G-0157, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Louise Cole, March 16, 1995 (portion title)
Cole, Louise 1945- (interviewee). Murphy, Priscilla Coit (interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Louise Cole was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1945. Cole's childhood was shaped by the family leadership of her mother, whose strong moral convictions were especially influential. She converted to Mormonism at the age of 17 and subsequently attended Brigham Young University in Utah during the mid-1960s. Cole majored in microbiology and biochemistry and worked for the Department of Defense after graduating in 1967. Cole married while still in college and moved to Frankfurt, West Germany, with her husband in 1972 to work as a chemist in a crime lab. They eventually settled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1977 when her husband decided to get his master's degree, followed by his doctorate, in public health. Cole and her husband had six children. They became involved in the Mormon Church in Orange County in the 1970s. Cole balanced family with work, taking a job first as a medical technician and later as a microbiologist-immunologist with the Environmental Protection Agency. In the late 1980s, Cole became actively involved in issues of the school board over curriculum that dealt with homosexuality (via multiculturalism) and sex education. In 1993, she helped to form an organization called Putting Children First -- a group dedicated to combating the school board about fiscal issues and school curriculum that they believed were inappropriate for minors. At the time of the interview in 1995, she was preparing to run for the school board.

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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.

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General Note:
Duration: 01:26:05.
Interview participants: Louise Cole, interviewee; Priscilla Murphy, interviewer.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
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Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 137 kilobytes, 27.5 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-0157, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 27 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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