Interview with Tom Oren

Interview with Tom Oren

Autobiography

Draftees -- United States

Oren, Tom, 1948-

Oren, Tom, 1948- -- Childhood and youth

Political activists

Special education teachers -- North Carolina, Western

Teacher exchange programs

Teachers -- Training of -- Jamaica

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors

Western Carolina University -- Faculty

Tom Oren is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1947, Oren details his experience as a conscientious objector and his alternative two-year service in Louisville, Kentucky working with kids with disabilities which led him to pursue a Master’s degree in Special Education. He talks about working at Western Carolina University for the past 20 years and his experiences with the Jamaica programs.

Oren, Tom, 1948-

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-07-11

Wade, Nathan

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36083

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36083

2019-08-15

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Jackson County (N.C.)

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

48:57 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina