Saluki Stories: Oral Histories from SIU

Walter Green talks about Carbondale history, segregation, and growing up in Southern Illinois. Mr. Green remembers professor London Branch and the story of how he brought Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha, to Southern Illinois University in 1972. Walter Green and archivist Walter Ray organized the 50-year anniversary of that performance.

Joe Eddy Brown is a 1970, SIU School of Design graduate. He attended SIU during the days when Buckminster Fuller was here. He was friends with Buzz Spector and is the creator of the Rayfield Whimple IV, the Metamatic art machine. Joe Eddy was a teacher for most of his career in the northern suburbs in Illinois.

Buzz Spector is an acclaimed artist, educator, and critical writer. He has had shows in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and recently in the St. Louis Museum of Art. As an undergraduate he began the student run literary magazine "Grassroots" which is still published today. Buzz...

Crystal Kuykendall grew up on the south-side of Chicago, the first in her family to go to college. While at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, she found her strength and motivation to become a national figure as an educator, human relations expert, legal analyst and inspiration to millions.

Crystal Kuykendall grew up on the south-side of Chicago, the first in her family to go to college. While at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, she found her strength and motivation to become a national figure as an educator, human relations expert, legal analyst and inspiration to millions.

On Friday August 25 at 6pm in the University Museum Auditorium, Jimmy will be giving a talk at the reception for Trajectory the artwork of Jimmy Wright and Arch Connelly. The show is spectacular and will remain up all semester. This episode will help people know more about this talented artist and provide background for the show.

On Friday August 25 at 6pm in the University Museum Auditorium, Jimmy will be giving a talk at the reception for Trajectory the artwork of Jimmy Wright and Arch Connelly. The show is spectacular and will remain up all semester. This episode will help people know more about this talented artist and provide background for the show.

Digital Narratives are born in Morris Library in the Digital Xpressions Lab. Students and faculty are building new ways to tell stories, present scholarship, design games, and explore their curiosity. #Digital #Scholarship #MorrisLibrary Our first venture into video podcasting.

SIU emeritus History Professor Michael Batinski is back in town talking about the forgotten stories of Jackson County, Illinois. His book, Forgetting and the Forgotten A Thousand Years of Contested Histories in the Heartland, is published by the SIU Press and available on their website: ⁠http://siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3837-5⁠ .

SIU emeritus History Professor Michael Batinski is back in town talking about the forgotten stories of Jackson County, Illinois. His book, Forgetting and the Forgotten A Thousand Years of Contested Histories in the Heartland, is published by the SIU Press and available on their website: http://siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-3837-5 .

The Special Collections Research Center is a key contact point for Morris Library, a place where we engage with surrounding communities and scholars from around the world. We preserve the university’s history and keep it alive through social media and in person events and exhibits. It is a place for the library to express its own identity through the collecting areas we have chosen. Donations help...

The SIU Day of Giving has provided funds that helped the SIU Press embark on innovative ways to bring their books to readers. The Press and WSIU created Blanket Fort Radio Theater with creative writing students to bring audio books to NPR listeners. 

Raf Frumkin, assistant professor at Southern Illinois University in creative writing talks about his his new novel, Confidence, published March 7, 2023 by Simon & Schuster.  Make sure to come to his book signing and in-person book talk in Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library, Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 5:00. His book is available in the Campus Bookstore and your favorite independent book deal...

#SIUDAY The SIUC Day of Giving is coming up on Tuesday March 28, 2023. Please support Library Affairs with your investment in Morris Library, the Special Collections Research Center, the SIU Press, and the University Museum.

Jeffery Leving is a successful family practice lawyer in Chicago. He focuses in keeping fathers in the lives of their children, even after a divorce. He was part of the team ensured Elian Gonzalez's return to his father in Cuba. He describes his involvement in a documentary film "A Wheelie in an All-American City" while an undergraduate. The film told the story of accessibility in Carbondale, year...

Vera Graddy, graduated from SIUC with a degree in History with a concentration in Library Science in 1958. Her SIUC degree took her to teaching positions around the world. We learn about the time she and her roommate snuck into the construction site for the new Morris Library. They wrote their names on sheets of paper and slipped them into a supporting pillar of the library knowing that they would...

Tammera Holmes is the founder, president, and CEO of Aerostar Avion Institute an aviation, education, and training organization with the mission of recruiting more students of color into careers in aviation.

Enjoli came to SIU as a non-traditional student in 1999. She struggled at first but quickly learned that there were people at SIU who cared and wanted her to succeed.  She is a Senior regional hygiene manager of dental hygiene clinical development for Elite Dental Partners. She is an advisor to dental practices and a motivational speaker. Enjoli has devoted her life to bringing others along t...

Tommie Van graduated from SIUC in 1986 and immediately went to work for the USDA where he had an internship as an undergraduate. He soon realized that his talent was in working with people not dirt. Find out how he worked his way up in the Marriott corporation to become one of their most successful general managers nationwide.

Cheryl Russell grew up in the small village of Tamms, Illinois and took music lessons in Carbondale before enrolling at SIUC. Cheryl fondly remembers band director Mike Hanes and others who served as valued mentors throughout her life.

Robert Murphy tells his story about his career as an infectious disease researcher and international medicine. #HIV, #John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases. #GlobalHealth, #LizPhair https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=12723

Robert (Rob) Murphy came to SIUC to study aviation. He graduated in 1974 with a BA in Geography and went on to become an MD specializing in infectious diseases at Northwestern University. He is one of the five founding members of the Northwestern Global Health Foundation. His work focuses on HIV and other diseases in Africa but is of world-wide significance. During the Covid pandemic he kept Chica...

D. Gorton talks about how he became a photographer at the New York Times. While working there he was assigned to Daniel Moynihan, Bella Abzug, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. More recently he has been working on a book of photographs documenting the white south during the late 1960s. 

D. Gorton, Carbondale native, grew up in the segregated Mississippi Delta town of Greenville, Mississippi. He talks about his life in that environment and his journey to his life as a social justice activist.

In this episode Edna Patterson-Petty speaks about her growth as an artist and her relationship with the art of Senegal.