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2017 WKU Rural Health Scholars Interview with Dr. Susan Jones

Haig Hagopian, Hagop Hagopian, Kavork Kavorkian, Virginia Kavorkian

A Christmas Day interview with my aunt Patti Kehoe

My sister's early interest in health care & her position in a large family led her to nursing school but her career & life path since required an adventurous spirit and self-propelled advanced education

This Nurse, Wife, Mother, and Grandmother talks about her childhood in the Philippines and her path to the US.

Where did we come from?

My great aunt tells me about her life, our family, and hopes for the future.

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Grandma Joyce's 70 year love story

I asked my mom's 1st cousin about her early life, growing up on a farm in western Ireland and later studying, working as a nurse and raising a family in England, and how she came to be living in the...

John Lillig (45) interviews his parents-in-law Seung Ja Lee (70) and Geung Goo Lee (74) about being born in South Korea, immigrating to Germany, and eventually settling in the U.S. Other topics discussed were family, golf, and travel throughout the...

Mary “Marchie” Ethel Luther (87) talks with her great nieces Deanna Fletcher (24) and Andrea Fletcher (22) about her Prussian heritage and work as a cytotechnologist.

Susan Di Christina (40) interviews her mother-in-law, Joan Di Christina (73) about Joan’s family ancestry and the history of the Erie Canal.

Suzanne Nikolaisen (39) interviews her father, Henry J. Johnson Jr. (82) about his career in aeronautical engineering.