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Oral history interview with Walt Ulmer, November 20, 1998 interview S-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Walt Ulmer, November 20, 1998 interview S-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview S-0034, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Walt Ulmer, November 20, 1998 (portion title)
Ulmer, Walter F. (interviewee). Mosnier, Joseph (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: Walter F. Ulmer, Jr., served as the president of the Center for Creative Leadership, based in Greensboro, North Carolina, from 1985 to 1994. Ulmer begins the interview with a very brief discussion of his family background and his career in the military. By the time Ulmer became the president of the Center, he had reached the rank of Lieutenant General in the United States Army and had retired with more than thirty years of service. The remainder of the interview is devoted to a detailed discussion of Ulmer's role as the president of the Center, and the major changes the organization underwent under his leadership. During the late 1980s, Ulmer oversaw the major reorganization and significant growth of the Center, which expanded not only administratively but also geographically: first opened in 1970 by the Smith Richardson Foundation in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Center had branches in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Brussels, Belgium, by the mid-1990s. The growth of the Center helped to situate the growth and role of enterprise in the South during these years. Ulmer discusses leadership turnover within the Center; some of the various endeavors of the Center in the areas of training, academics, and research; and the Center's efforts to diversify its professional staff by trying to draw in more women and minority executives.

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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.

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General Note:
Duration: 01:38:51.
Interview participants: Walt Ulmer, interviewee; Joseph Mosnier, interviewer.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
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. 146 kilobytes, 181 megabytes.
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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series S, Center for Creative Leadership, interview S-0034, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Tower Associates. Original transcript: 30 p.
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Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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Ulmer, Walter F Interviews
Center for Creative Leadership Administration
Center for Creative Leadership Presidents Interviews
Executives Training of
Leadership Study and teaching
Research institutes North Carolina Greensboro
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