Beehler, Randy
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence Miles, 1976
Clarence Miles was a Baltimore corporation lawyer and active civic leader. In this interview, he discusses: public utilities legal work; requirements for success in a legal career; personal political activities; purchase of Saint Louis baseball team for Baltimore; origin and development of the Greater Baltimore Committee; the Wye Institute; close personal association with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; efforts to reform Maryland taws concerning horse-racing; and the Orphan's Court.
Father Thomas F. Whelan, 1974 August 16
In this interview, Father Thomas F. Whelan discusses: People he knew growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Princeton University; training for the priesthood in Europe before World War II; World War II experiences; position as first rector of Cathedral of Mary Our Queen and later Catholic Charity head. Mentions Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop Francis Keough, Episcopal Bishop Noble Powell, and James Cardinal Spellman.
J. Robert Sherwood, 1978 August 31
John Marshall Butler, 1975
John Marshall Butler was a United States Senator from Maryland. In this interview, he discusses his early life and education; his proposed Constitutional amendments; and his 1950 senatorial campaign.
Walter Lord (1917-), 1976
Growing up in Roland Park in Baltimore; the Gilman School; his first literary venture-editing The Freemantle Diary (Boston: Little, Brown,1954); favorite themes; past and present quality of historical research; therelevance and readability of history.
Warfield Firor, 1974 November 21
Warfield Firor was a Johns Hopkins Hospital physician and secretary of the American Surgical Society, 1943-1949. In this interview, he discusses Johns Hopkins Medical School during World War II; implications of the atomic bomb; the Flexner report; Red Cross Blood Donor program; new drugs; comparisons of Baltimore before and after the fire of 1904, and earlier and present medical education.